I don’t know if many of you know this, but I love to dance.

Big surprise, I know!

But I never knew I would love dancing to live funk music in Paris so much!
My host mom took me out last night to this funk club last night with all her work friends… who just happened to be a bunch of young, smart, funny, well dressed French men! Yay for me! Haha

Long story short, Tass and I went to the club around 8:30 and came back home at 3:30am! I love my host family! This last week has been CRAZY!! My Birthday party ended up being an entire weekend of meeting the friends of my host family. I have never experienced a party like this. I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.
After the party, we had a ton of great food and champagne left over, so our meals this week have been somewhat indulgent.

My family’s philosophy is to live for pleasure. It might sound selfish, but in fact they are some of the most generous people I know.

- Dance, Sing, Eat, Laugh, Speak with your heart. Be sincere in the actions you do and the sense of euphoria will be contagious.

I was on the metro yesterday, and a young guy was playing classical guitar, and it was good! But not a single person on the metro would even acknowledge the music. But it was something really special. It was kind of funny because I was on the opposite side from him, so I couldn’t compliment his music, so instead I gave him a thumbs up, and he gave me a real smile and said Merci. It was good. It was like a “ O wait! I am human and so are you, and I like the music you make” kind of moment. And believe me that is rare in Paris.

I hope that in every chance you get in life, you will choose to LIVE and screw what people think is “acceptable”. Being acceptable is way too predictable and incredibly boring. We have so much potential to be something much better than average. Try and live like a human today, let me know how it goes!