Clubbing, Thanksgiving Dinner

Um yea. Friday night was pretty fun, pretty wild, with moments of hilarious. My Chinese buddy invited me to a party at his place. Everyone met up out side of his apparent and by chance my American home slice happened to wind up to arrive just at the right time to join the party as well. So we all had an enjoyable time of drinks and snacks. There was the was many campangs, campins and campays, or something like that, to say cheers in chinese, korean and japanese is very similar.

After a bit pushing the limits of "normal" social drinking it was time go out to the club. My amerikaner had to return chez-il so the discotheque group totaled to be 9 people, 2 dudes, 7 chicks and I was the only non-asian. By the time we reached the club it was already pumping. I got my free drink, culsec'd it and was ready for dancing.

I opened up the dancing in high force to start off with. The girls were soon placed in a wave of there own giggles, awe, this is awesome kind of atmosphere; I already reached that feeling in my mind earlier. It was an absolute blast, one of the girls was really good at dancing, some other were wild and crazy, others were awkward yet determined, who knows how one would describe myself. I made sure that, or at least tried to, have some dancing time with each of the girls in our group.

We took a few breaks from the dancing and stood in the fan every once and awhile. It was really hot in the club that night, so the fan was quite quite appreciated. Eventually some of the girls started getting exhausted. You know the standard procedure, if I am in the fully dancing zone people usually start dropping out before I do. I can't stop dancing sometimes, haha.

In the last hour something that I have never experienced before happened in a club. So basically all the go-go dancers turned into strippers. No expecting that one but yea there was girls dancing only in g-strings, well maybe high heels as well but I don't really remember. The girls reactions were priceless: this is so embarrassing, how awkward yet I like it! wow this is so cool! My reaction was a mix of all the others. France always seems to throw little surprises out there that I would have never imagined. A good chunk of the club stopped dancing just to watch the "show" I couldn't stop dancing. It was ummm quite the experience to say the least.

We eventually wound up leaving after some of the girls had some experience with the typical creepy drunk dudes and I had to do some occasional shielding. Some dudes out there can be complete idiots at times. Thats one of the downsides to clubs is that there is a certain scumminess to them, yet the music is always amazing, once you're in the zone it's fantastic.

It was a great night overall, really physically and mentally fatiguing but something that I can look back on and just start laughing.

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The next day I visit my friend at the Japanese exposition. She was decked out in a kimono which was really cool. I watched a tea presentation which was strange yet interesting. There was also kendo (way of the sword) presentation an my friend said that she finally realized that they were shouting commands in japanese with french accents which was pretty silly.

Eventually I had to take off to get some wine for thanksgiving dinner. I got the wine and returned chez-moi. I really just felt like sleeping because I exhausted from the previous night. Yet I knew that I couldn't miss out on the dinner because I had a feeling it would be something truly special.

It was.

There were 10 of us crowded into a kitchen/dining room area. It was so tight that we always had to shift the tables around whenever anyone needed to stand up. The food was amazing. There was everything from actual from the U.S. stuffing to apricot glazed turkey. We all took turns saying things that we were thankful for in english and french, serious and silly. Oh and did I mention the hats. Yea we all had hats. The theme was pilgrims and indians and after a while the hats just seemed normal.

After the spectacular meal we after first desert, followed by second desert, followed by third desert, followed by forth desert. Wow, just wow, all the deserts were homemade masterpieces of creativity, love and all around tastiness.

After the dinner the was a bit of dancing and singing. Great times. Eventually it was time to roll out. I was surprised that when I got hoe it was near 1am. Time flies when living life at its best. I'm not forgetting this thanksgiving.