monday, i'm in school

30.07.07

back to school monday. not much to report today, at least not during school hours. we have two new lecturers today, professors onuma & lagrange. prof. onuma is cute-funny & has hand-outs! hand-outs! how long has it been since i got hand-outs! a very long time. prof. lagrange seems to be very theoretical in her approach, so i think it will be fairly challenging to unpack. prof. onuma will be lecturing a trans-civilizational perspective on international law and prof. lagrange on the effectiveness in domestic law of international norms governing the status of individuals. should be interesting.

monday night was the night that students from several countries (including canada) were invited to prof. daudet's (the secretary general of the hague academy) home for cocktails. i went over at 6:00 and it was a really fun night. prof. daudet and his wife are absolutely delightful, and so very down to earth. he teaches at the sorbonne and is really quite brilliant. his wife is beautiful, haitian and just generally a very good-humoured person. i threatened to show up at their paris apartment with a sleeping bag and they took it all in stride. impressive. also they had wicked tasty cheese at their reception. i took two extra pieces with me in a napkin. because i'm classy like that.

i befriended a fun group at chez daudet (2 french, 2 french-canadian, 1 mexican and 1 me). & then we went out for dinner at a place called havana for dinner, more drinks, conversation, flirtation with the waiter. i was, of course, the geriatric in the group. it's a little humbling to be surrounded by smarties in their early 20s. i guess being surrounded by them isn't humbling, what's humbling is realizing that you aren't 20 anymore and that you aren't doing a very realistic impression of being 30 either. fun times were had. i flirted with the waiter and we invited him to come out with us tuesday night (we have a social night planned through school). i won't keep you in suspense: the waiter didn't show.

in other news, i had to buy a jacket, a sweatshirt & a scarf because it is freakin' cold here in july! jeez louise.