Jun 25, 2005 | Movie Awards!

Imagine yourself riding a white limo with your friends (short as the ride may be), getting off on a red carpet towards Planet Hollywood on Champs Elysees while a whole crowd congregates, and spending the rest of the blessed night in the company of your friends, watching movies that other students made (and you yourself helped make), and finally winning an award for best movie (3rd).

Quite something, huh?

(I won't mention the visit by a Bruce Willis look-alike, though he did make quite an effort to look like him.)

Anyhow, the whole Ecole active Bilingue 50th anniversary bash/gala dinner/dance at Planet Hollywood on Champs Elysees was on a scale I had not been able to imagine, one that indeed required a lot of foresight on the part of the Delesalles who organised much of it. I wasn't able to consume my dinner with much enthusiasm because of the jitteriness I felt at having the suspense of being the last movie shown.

(As a commemorative project, we were given the opportunity to make short 5-1o minute films on whatever subject we wanted: we decided to do a female version of Jackass, dubbed Jackassettes. The audience would then vote on what film they found the best, up to the top three).

I think a word to all the crew should be mentioned here: to Alkisti, Alfredo, Elandre and Gigja- may the legacy of Jackassettes never be forgotten! Thank you for an opportunity I'm really glad I didn't miss out on!

Anyhow, the night passed all too quickly and 2am came, with the Planet Hollywood people eager to kick out a bunch of rowdy students, drunk from all the dancing but sober to the bone.

But it wasn't over for a few of us.

Trocadero seems to have been the sanctuary for some of us lately, and so Alkisti, Alfredo and I, having walked from Champs Elysees towards Trocadero while in a very deep discussion, sat there waiting for the sun to rise. In the hours we spent (which passed by quite fast, if I may say so myself) we sat and talked, tagged our names in a water-soluble red pen, filmed ourselves, and tried kicking cans and plastic bottles over the high ledge that spanned the whole area we were in. (My effort and attempts at getting them over the were quite in vain).

And we were surprisingly awake.

Alfredo, having had to go home at around 6 o'clock, ended up not coming back to meet us bedraggled people as had been planned, and so after a brief half-an-hour doze (by which time we were suddenly getting tired) on the benches of Trocadero, we parted ways and headed home instead of sticking around to see the LG Action Sports event. Not that we would've been much awake to appreciate it =)

So that marked my very last dance party with my fellow EaBers here in Paris, though it might not be the very last.

We'll see what the future holds in store for us, but I certainly don't want to lose contact with any of you...

It's so sad... the people I'll be missing the most I don't have the time to hang around with long enough.

Also written on this day..

• 2008: KISS, Audio Engineering
• 2006: A bit of a reality check
• 2005: Graduation