Indiana Jones Represent

Hello kiddos! Been a long time, but I have just been oh so busy ya know? Lets see what kind of fun adventures I can update you on. First day of school was kind of tragic. I didn't get into the art history classes that I wanted so I had to settle for 'New Product Development' and 'International Human Resources Management' and yes, both of those classes are just as boring as you think they are...AND they are both 3 hrs long. Vom. AND they are actually going to be hard, sorry for getting your hopes up Riley, but it turns out that study abroad classes actually do require a lot of work! Unfortunate.

First day of work was...interesting? I love being an intern, you get to do allll the bitch work. On Tuesday I went to the bank and the post office, which it must be noted that there were 40 people ahead of me in line at the post office! No joke. So that was great. Also I am essentially working outside because there is NO heat at the gallery. Soo if you just want to picture me sitting on an aluminum stool, staring at an excel database, in the freezing cold for 8 hours 3 days a week, you would be pretty much dead on.

The highlight of my first day was that I fell in love. Not really, but kind of. All that know me well understand my appreciation and slightly creepy infatuation with older business men; so it's no surprise that when Gill (pronouced JEEL), the gallery owner, showed up yesterday I was lovin it. He is such a stereotypical old French dude, he says Sheet and Fuckher a lot and sounds super classy while doing so. I couldn't stop laughing when the boot leg Asian DVD man shows up at the gallery and Gill proceeds to buy 22 dvds!! He made me check 5 of them to make sure they were legit, he called it an 'intern job'. Haha. I have never seen someone bargain with another individual quite like yesterday...at one point Gill yells as he is walking out the door away from the Asian man 'Don't you know we are in an economic crisis!!!?' And then he winked at me; I was dying with laughter. He also called me Indiana Jones, which I also thought was funny.

Okay, enough of Gill, my other Frenchman, Marcel, and I went on date #2 yesterday which was good. Fav part of the date:
Marcel-"What do you call these in English?"
Me-"Kalamata olives?"
He then tells me what they are called in Spanish, Portugese, and French...what a show off.
Another great line from Marcel: "You don't understand how hard it is to talk English right now. I have been speaking Spanish all weekend and to speak English right now is like a brain exercise!" haha. Must be tough spending the weekend in Spain.

Obviously this is a really long blog posting because I got off work early and am wasting time in the computer labs at school right now before my class starts. Can I tell you that I am not cut out to be a woman!? I have blisters all over my feet from wearing heels all day, yuck. Godo thing work isn't that dressy; as soon as Gill goes back to France I am wearing tennis shoes to work!

Oh, one last thing here for the Bloomington fans that read this. They have Pizza Express here! Nooo big deal...except it is a super classy lunchtime restaurant, not the 3:00 in the morning drunk fest that we all know and love. Okay well I am sure you are tired of reading so I will give you a break. Love you all very much!