The Festival Begins!

What I did yesterday:

• Class
• Ate ice cream
  
• Shopping with George Akers...except we didn't buy anything because everything was very expensive.
• Nap that was supposed to only last 20 minutes...
• Would have gone to Cannes to eat dinner with fellow trip-mates, but I slept instead.
• Slept some more

Today!

• Woke up at 7:30 and met up with everyone at 8:45 to head to Cannes.
• We get our cinephile badges (which are the lowest of the low "rank wise")
• We take a class picture on a grassy knoll near the Lumiere
• Went to the Majestic Hotel to get 3405390 free magazines
• Tried to get into The Girlfriend Experience (new Soderbergh film) but it was a Market film (which means you need a Market badge to get in. These films aren't in the competition. They are just trying to get picked up by a distributor.)
• Ate Asian Fast Food
  
• Went back to Juan-les-Pins
• Lied out on the beach
• Now I am back here getting ready for the "Up" premiere

We don't get tickets to the premieres. We have to get in our formal wear and beg for them. This should be humbling.

French Stereotypes that Have Turned Out to be True

• They do wear all black. And all white.
• They smoke a lot
• They walk around with baguettes
  
• They walk around with little dogs
• They speak French
• They drive tiny cars (kind of a European stereotype)
• They still think spiking their hair is cool
• They wear sweaters around their necks

I shall report back on how the premiere goes.