Everyday is Weekend

After about a week our rights to our own private campus started to dissapear as students from other programs started theirs, as well as regular students to the school and dorms started appearing. Another exchange student, this one from Germany, came to be one of one of our friends.

In many places that aren't the United States, the legal drinking age is 18 (not that anybody checks id's here in France anyways) so basically anyone going to college can drink.  Basically, our Germany boy- let's cal him Fabbie- knew his way around the clubbing scene for a while, whereas some people in our group couldn't even legally drink in their home country.  To top it off, Fabbie comes from a country that, every October, holds a party that lasts half the month and focuses on nothing but drinking.  There is even a Germany word- Bierleichen (meaning beer corpse)- which is used to describe people you see lying around after consuming too many steins of their favorite non-water liquid.

It's still mostly summer for most people here who don't really have to wake up at 8 in the morning to go to class, but even if they do it doesn't really stop them from doing it anyways.  European clubs, even during the week, just start warming up right about the time American clubs would shut down for the night.  Fabbie was all about this.  I don't know what classes he had, if there even were any, or what time he would have to wake up, but it didn't seem to matter to him.  His response in his funny "English is my second language but I still speak it better than most Americans" way:

'Monday is still weekend."

Which makes sense I guess, some people may not have hard class at the beginning of the week, until you ask  him about the other days of the week:

"Tuesday is weekend." "Wednesday is weekend." "Thursday is weekend." "Friday is weekend."

So what do the German people have to teach us about the days of the week?  Every.  Day.  Is. Weekend.

The above picture shows the best time of the "Weekend."  Estival.  Every Friday during summer, Montpellier, various shops, and the various wine makers of the region (Langedoc-Roussin) come together to make one of the biggest open air fesitval/markets.  5 Euros gets you a glass and three tickets to get a glass of wine of your choosing that you can savor while looking at the various stalls, listening to the bands, and smelling the foods that come from all over the world.

La Region

Excursion to wine city complete with degustation (wine tasting).