Firecrackers, the Opera and Storms

On Saturday, one of the assistants, Dela, had an End of January party that many of us attended. While waiting for the tram to go to her place, we saw a great firecracker/dragon dancing display in front of a Chinese restaurant downtown. It was so great! They set up about 30 firecrackers and 4 people in dragon costumes danced around. 10 minutes of fun for us. Here is a semi-blurry pic.
Below are a couple pictures from the party. After the party, we had to walk halfway home due to tram lines closing before we anticipated. Thankfully it wasn't raining or too cold. It was a great party though with some odd yet quite tasty punch mixture of alcohol, juice and cinnamon sticks.

Here I am with Cathy.

Here I am with Leymi (from Venezuela).

Yesterday, I attended Opera #3: Affaire Etrangère at the Montpellier Opera. It was really funny actually. It was only 1h 26min but it was great. This show was based on a comic book and you could definitely tell. It was sung in French with French supertitles. I really enjoyed the show which was not romantical in anyway. It was just about a stranger who crash lands in his spaceship into a kingdom. The king spends the majority of the show deciding what to do with the stranger who they locked up in prison hospital. He was all bandaged up due to his crash. The stranger even had a head cast on for the entire show which hid his face yet did not restrict his singing. Finally, the king decides to kill him but in the meantime, the stranger trades places with the king by taking his crown and no one seems to notice. The king is emprisoned and all of the kingdom (the 5 other cast members) want to leave with the stranger on his spaceship. The king escapes and ends up leaving the kingdom with the others in the spaceship. The stranger is left in the kingdom alone. Fin. The costumes were cool and very bright and comic book-y. The set was cute and simple with doors that opened and closed by themselves. There was also a track on the stage which allowed beds, tables and various items to move into the scene all by themselves. :)

Today, due to ridiculous storms and a red-weather alert, my school cancelled the afternoon portion of the day and my classes were subsequently cancelled. Unfortunately, I did not learn of this cancellation until I arrived at the school. So basically, I walked in the pouring rain to the train station in Montpellier and got completely drenched and then arrived in Frontignan to be told that the afternoon was cancelled. So then I basically turned right back around and came home. It has been raining for a couple days already and it's predicted to continue raining for the majority of the week. Hurray! This city was certainly not built to handle the rain since I had to, in essence, traverse 2 or 3 raging rapids of water on my way to the train station earlier today.

Your British word lesson of the day: jotter = notebook. In a sentence: Everyone get out your jotters and write this down before I get angry.