They are having a series of concerts in Metz over the course of the next few weeks. This past Tuesday was the second one so far and I think it was supposed to be the most the one 
with the most popular band. SuperBus took the stage and the crowd went wild. They are a French group (female vocalist and guys on all the instruments) Most of their songs all sounded the same...drums, bass, electric guitar, club-mix sound. It was interesting though because many of their songs included English words...some were entirely in English. The only problem was that some of the people in the audience really had no clue what was being said. We heard them trying to mimic the words and that made it clear that they didn't know what the words were. Some people knew enough English to figure it out, but others were just enjoying the beat.
with the most popular band. SuperBus took the stage and the crowd went wild. They are a French group (female vocalist and guys on all the instruments) Most of their songs all sounded the same...drums, bass, electric guitar, club-mix sound. It was interesting though because many of their songs included English words...some were entirely in English. The only problem was that some of the people in the audience really had no clue what was being said. We heard them trying to mimic the words and that made it clear that they didn't know what the words were. Some people knew enough English to figure it out, but others were just enjoying the beat.One of the things I found most interesting was that the stage was set up right next to the Cathedral (as you can see in the picture). It's strange to me to see a huge cathedral with several hundred years of history right next to a concert stage and tons of people. I think that if this had been a situation in the US that they would have never let a concert take place right next to such a piece of history...maybe it's because there isn't as much history in the US in the first place...?
Wednesday morning we headed to Luxembourg to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. :o) Although probably one of the hardest Harry Potter books to make into a movie, I think they did a pretty good job. Enough said...you need to see it for yourself.
Wednesday evening we went to a PhD dinner hosted by the Asian PhD students: Zheshen and Wui. It was incredible. To see all of the pictures from it click on the More Swafford Pictures and Videos link.
This is a picture of the Chef, Zheshen (on the right). He began cooking at 4pm and made 3 appetizers, and 13 entrees! It was incredible. We ate things like, seaweed, mushrooms, squid, pork, beef, shrimp, cabbage, scallops, peas, chicken, tofu, potatoes, eggs, and rice of course, all in different Chinese dishes. Did I mention it was incredible?
Below is a picture of just six of the main dishes that he made. The ones I liked the best were the bottom right one (pork, tofu, and mushrooms with a yummy sauce), the top middle one (marinated mushrooms), and the bottom left (very spicy pork and cabbage). Very good very good. The only problem was that David and I forgot to bring our chop sticks! We went to dinner with Wui last Friday, to a Chinese restaurant and he gave us a lesson on the proper way to use chop sticks, so we wanted to practice some more... Oh well, we will just have to eat with them again. :o)
After the meal we had dessert, although it was not Chinese.
I was volunteered to make it - chocolate chip cookies. They were pretty good, but I'm still trying to perfect my recipe. There were 80 cookies. Yummmmm.
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