Lazy week-end

This week-end was officially a lazy week-end, spent mostly between sleeping, watching tv, shopping a bit for food, and just walking as usual. Saturday started with all of our flatmates leaving one after another saying they were going to the beach, leaving us all alone there. It was as usual a hot day, so we ended up watching a movie in the afternoon and getting out only around 5 to go to the Live8 concert taking place at the Circus Maximus. There wasn’t as huge a crowd as could have been expected, specially knowing that the concerts were for free, but the sun and heat really were killing. At least we were part of eradicating poverty in the world, well at least that’s what our bracelets said, and although the only thing I did was stand in the sun and get free water, it feels good no? I wonder how much impact this series of concerts really did have. On Sunday, again the same scheme, late waking up, late big breakfast, late lunch, some working a bit on serious stuff, and in the evening we went to the train station to pick two friends of Mark from Malaysia. These two girls came to Paris for some interuniversity competition, and decided to stay some 3 weeks longer and travel through Italy and then Spain, all on 500 Euros. Which means they’ve been mostly sleeping in train stations, where one of their bags got stolen, and just find their cheap way around, as most money went into trains and flights. So it ended up having them staying in our room (they got used to sleeping on the floor by now) for 3 days, luckily they are really nice. The first evening we did the big Rome package for them: pizza, walk to the Colosseo by night, and finally great gelato (ice-cream), for 1 Euro each (and believe me, the piccolo cono is HUGE).