Awww.... (now with pictures!)

I love this group of people. I have the best classmates ever.

I decided this morning that I was really excited about my -1 anniversary (as demonstrated by the previous post). So, I ran out at break time and bought a couple bottles of 6 euro chamapagne. Just before we broke for lunch I came in with the two bottles, and let everyone know why today was special for me, promised I would send pictures next year, and asked them to celebrate with me today.

I had told my professor in the morning about this, and she had whispered it to some of my more eloquent classmates... so what do you know? We pour the champagne, and we have toasts! I received three proper, beautiful, sometimes funny and oh so appropriate toasts. It was GREAT.

Best group ever. It's funny because, I might end up working with one or more of these people at some international school in the future. And I might not be friends with them people forever. Communication is bound to taper off, and people will lose touch (even though we've been so intensely close for the last 13 months)....but the cool thing is, I get the feeling that these are the kind of people that I'd be able to pick up with whenever we meet again. That is cool.

So here are the pictures...

Here I am saying, yeah, I'm a dork, but I want to celebrate this day with you!

And here we have the beginning of the opening of the one bottle. David there next to me was ever so happy to get that other bottle off my hands. :)

But the bottle won't open. Lots of people were cringing and getting out of the way, thinking I'm going to poke someone's eye out or break a window... but I swear, that cork just wasn't budging!

No, but really! It's NOT moving!

So Peter steps up, thinking I'm just being a girl, and has just as much trouble budging that cork as I did! See the look on my face, you can hear the, "I *told* you it wouldn't open!"

And then, David has poured me a classy plastic cup full of 6 euro champagne, and I can't be bothered with Peter's bottle anymore... :)

Viktorija and I (notice in my hand I am holding a class evaluation...) Oh, and notice Peter back there excited because he poured champagne for others, and then we ran out of cups, so he got the rest of the bottle.

And then everyone was doing evaluations while drinking champagne!

Some even had to get on the floor...

And once champagne was consumed, of course we all started talking at once... oh no wait, David and I talked all the time anyway...

The end of another week... there we are the lot of us. One week from graduation! Whoohooo!!!