Second to last week before the holidays!!!

I've made lussikatter! A couple of days early (the 9th), but it was for a x-mas gouter (the meal betweeen luch and dinner) for the international students. Didn't add enough saffron so they're not really yellow, but they tasted nice anyway :)

Also managed to get some footage from one of my labs. Might not seem that impressive, but I'm pretty happy that it works!

There has actually been quite a bit going on this week, in addition to exams and lab reports… This was the weekend  for the illumination of Valence.

 Not as big as the one in Lyon, but everyone in Valance was there and it was pretty sweet. And really quite random..

The theatre on the right

In addition to lighting up buildings, dressing up, having a parade etc. etc. They also had a pretty big show at the Champs de Mars  that lasted for almost an hour. It was kind of weird, but nice anyway. Not sure if I got the story right, but there was a giant fossilised sea creature, a museum directrice that went crazy and many weird things...  

Sea creature has opened itself and weird beings emmerges.

beings...

After the show it was time for the fireworks! I love fireworks! And so does the french it seems. Not sure how long it lasted, but it was choreographed (not sure if that's the correct word, but it was all timed and stuff) to the "Reine de la neige" song, then followed by Mariah Carey with "All I want for christmas". It was great!

The theme was gold and silver :)

After the fireworks we decided to move towards the mairie to check out a free concert. This turned out to be a positive surprise. Not really sure how these guys ended up in Valence, but the Hypnotic brass ensemble  form Chicago were awesome!

the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

And just to make the evening a bit more special, we decided to go to an Irish pub. By the way, one of the girls that was there (armerican) turned out to speak swedish pretty well. Second person I've met here who speaks swedish, the other one was Swiss.. 

After this rather interesting saturday the sunday was spent studying, redoing old TD's. I was pretty happy about that when the exam I had today consisted mostly of old TD's :)  

It was so nice and sunny today!
(Should have worn sunglasses)

Well, only one exam to go! (before the vacation anyway..)

À bientôt!