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French School and Kalimochos

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2004-09-21 11:39:19

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the street. It has become tradition for me to ask her to come out dancing with us at Dupon. As usual she just laughs and calls me "una traviesa coqueta!"

Grinning, I offer to let her borrow my halter top. She laughs and asks me to show the new girls around. They have that "I have just left the States for the first time" wide-eyed look. I show them to the University. After dinner, I take Paola, who is in the room next door to mine, to our local hangout Dupon.

When we get to Dupon, I hear a scream. Someone gives me a hug Rocio, from Spain, one of my best friends last year. I love the girl to death. Dupon is the place where we will go out dancing most nights. Nicolas, the bartender, remembers me from the year before. Paul, a Kiwi who was also doing CIDEF last year, is now bartending there as well.

Over time, our crowd becomes known as the Spanish Mafia, notorious for drinking all the carafes of wine at dinner. Hey, we liked toasting in all languages! The Spanish Mafia had 5 Spaniards, 6 Mexicans, 3 Americans, 2 Turks, 2 Germans, 1 Dutch, 1 Kosovo, and 1 hilarious Brazilian. Jesus, from Spain, explained the concept of "kalimocho" for us. You buy a liter of Coke, and really cheap red wine, and mix it together. Sounds weird, but is definitely fab. It is meant to be drunk outdoors, right before hitting the pubs.

So we steal the wine from the Dragon Lady (woman in charge of dining hall, who watched us like a hawk) and buy liters of Coca-Cola at the 24 hr PROXY mini-mart. Jesus became known as the Kalimaster, as he began the tradition of kalimocho every evening by Chateau d'Angers. Then we'd hit Dupon, where Nicolas would open the downstairs dance "cave" for us, and Paul would spin songs in Spanish. Weekends were spent at Cointreau museum, having coffee, getting lost, shopping, traveling. With my Mafia friends, I visited Bretagne, Normandy, Lille, London, Nice, Cannes, and Monaco. Our last day in Angers, we stayed all up all night, enjoying our last time in France together. I've never learned so much and had so many experiences, while at the same time having so much fun. Every summer should be like this.

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