Greg’s Blog: Concerts and Volleyball!!

The last two weeks have been the best so far in Paris in terms of freedom. Two weeks ago my family and I went to Rock en Seine (a big music festival dedicated to rock). When we were there my parents let me hang out with some friends for a few hours while they went and listened to the bands they wanted to go see.  I went another way with my friends to do the same.

The following weekend my school had a massive party at Champs de Mars on the Friday night. Some of the wealthier kids rented out the entire park directly beneath the Eiffel Tower for the night and we partied until 2am. It is an ASP tradition; every year the entire school from grade 9-12 have a party at Champ de Mars to welcome all the freshmen and new kids; and later in the night all the grade 9’s always get pushed into the giant fountain by all the other kids. The Saturday night of that same weekend was even better! A couple of friends invited me to go to another big concert called ‘Inox’. Inox is another big music festival dedicated to electronic music which is my favourite genre.  We met there around 6:30pm and stayed until around 12am.

This weekend was a very interesting experience as well. On Friday morning I woke up at 5:45am and was at my school for a bus that left at 7am to go to London, England with my volleyball team (along with other teams from my school). The bus ride was a total of 10 hours! It felt a little bit longer though because we had a couple stops and took a train under the English Channel.  It was weird being under the ocean for 30 minutes in a bus, on a train bed!  When we finally arrived in London we played three sets and then went to our ‘host family’s’ house. Chris (a kid on my volleyball team) and I got assigned to a Dutch family who looked after us for the weekend. They took us out to a very nice Italian restaurant and paid for our meals. The next morning we played again and beat the team that beat us on the Friday 2 sets to none and then lost to another team from England, two sets to one. So overall we won four sets and lost four sets which is “ok”.

This has been my last two weeks in Europe. Peace out.