Boujoulais Nouveau!

So the Beaujolais Nouveau was released last Thursday and due to lack of internet at my house I have been unable to update my blog about it. So after the much anticipated wait, the new wine of 2009 has been released to much the partying of college students. For some the parties started at 10 am, for me it started at dinner with my host family. So first of all, an awesome different between the USA and France: In the U.S. we sell girl scout cookies door to door, in France they sell the Beaujolais Nouveau! At around 6 pm we got a knock on the door, and there were 2 guys that offered to sell us the new wine. My host mom bought 2 bottles. We had a semi-fancy dinner that started with baked apples and sausage on toast points, to go along with the wine. Then some rice and tomato mixture to put on the rice, and finally a chocolate dessert. So the wine this year, in my opinion, is not bad, better than box wine, but defiantly is worse than anything else I've ever had here in France. So after dinner I went to my first party, it was a school organized event, and we went to the caviste (wine seller) of a professor. There was a jazz band, lots of little things to eat, and of course the wine. It was a really cool atmosphere to be in the basement of a wine cellar, there were a bunch of wine bottles all around as well as all stone walls. The band wasn't too bad either. After 45 mins spent there, I went off to a dinner with my marketing class at a creperie. This was the same place I went a couple months ago with an American. It was really fun because there were so many of us! Although because I had already eaten dinner, I passed on food and just sat and talked with French people for the entire night. It was a really good way to celebrate the Beaujolais Nouveau, and this years wine will be really good, although I do not recommend the nouveau, it's just way too young! I'm looking forward to my trip to Bordeaux to try the new wine, and to try out all my new wine vocabulary that we had to learn!
In other news, We have also found a new cafe with several different types of coffee! It's a really cool experience to go there, very hippie-esque with lots of books everywhere, comfy couches, and all at the same time very french tucked into the back corner of a neighborhood. Ah this country is growing on me yet again, the discovery of this city is really cool. Unfortunately because exams are coming up soon we have so much more homework and more work than we normally would. It's really frustrating when French homework is starting to get in the way of me socializing with French people (friends or family).
Peace, Love and too many exams!