Update part 2
Ok, so my laundry still has 13 minutes...stupid machines. But anyway, to continue...
Last wednesday we had a field trip to the Musée Carnavelet, which is a museum of Parisian history. We only really saw the stuff dealing with the French Revolution. I would definitely like to go back to see more of the museum, but that day we needed to get home to work on papers, which were due at 8am Thursday. We did however take time to get lunch. The musée is in Le Marais, which is the old Jewish quarter (and the new gay quarter), and the best falafel in the world is available there. That was a VERY satisfying lunch.
This weekend - Friday night went to hang out for a while with Chris' french friend Étienne. He lives in an apartment on the Right Bank with a lovely view of Sacre Coeur. After spending a little bit of time at his place, we went to a club that a bunch of Étienne's trendy parisien friends from the École Normale had taken over. We had a good time dancing.
Saturday morning took the metro to a park in the Northeast of the city, then walked all the way back to the Left Bank, spending quite a long time in the Pere La Chaise cemetery, where a lot of famous people are buried, most notably Jim Morrison. I didn't actually make it to Morrison's grave, or Sarah Bernhardt's, but i did see Oscar Wilde's. I'll have to go back.
Today went to the Louvre with Chris, and saw the Italian and Dutch Renaissance paintings, then walked home so that we wouldn't feel uber-touristy.
Anyway, that's about it. Tomorrow if it's open i'm gonna go to the Picasso museum, then it's over to the Centre to register for Winter Quarter classes - i'm so excited - if i get what i want, not only will the classes be really cool, but i won't have class Monday OR Friday. yeah, that's gorgeous. But it may be difficult to pull off.
Ok, time to go actually go transfer my laundry, then start dinner.
Love y'all
Sorry!
Allright, so here's the thing. I know it's been several decades since i posted...what's been happening is that my photo site has been quite annoying. So every time i start to try and post, i attempt to load photos and fail miserably and get really depressed and don't feel like writing anything anymore. So now i'm writing before i even attempt to do anything with my photos. Let's see...what have been the highlights of the time since i last posted?
Last weekend...Friday...went to Versailles. I HATE VERSAILLES. The ostentation of the decoration and the horror of absolute monarchy are nauseating. Still, it was a fun time just because of being in a big group, and getting to have another really nice meal with our teachers.
Saturday I went to the Rodin museum, which was absolutely beautiful. Especially after reading Descartes and thinking about pure reason for a week, it was nice to see a sculptor who's so into passion and despair. That night went to dinner in Montmartre - we tried to go to a fondue restaurant, but it's apparently like the most popular place in Paris - line out the door, so we ended up being called into the Indian restaurant next door. Decent, but not great. What WAS great was the jazz concert in the Bastille that we went to afterwards. It was in a really cool, dark little basement room - there was a female singer with a drummer and an amazing bassist. She did a lot of really classic songs, and some cool new things, like Hendrix covers.
Sunday went with my friend Evan to the English language used bookstore, then walked home from Montparnasse. Evan's an architecture student, so it was fun walking with him and having all the cool windows and lofts pointed out to me.
Ok, i'll finish this up after i transfer my laundry from the washer to the dryer.
Love y'all
Putain
Day of mourning.
It's not so much the end result that gets me, ok, well it is, but it's also how un-close it's turned out to be. I feel alienated, lost. My vision of America in no way lines up with what has happened today. I try to tell myself that it's only 4 years, really only 2...i'm trying to rejoice, at least, in Obama's victory. But it's hard to think positively at this point. Look at what's happened in the past 4 years. 1000+ American KIDS, just like the kids i went to high school with MURDERED along with countless Iraqis for NO GOOD REASON. And that's just a tiny tiny little part of it.
I'm just confused. And sad. Don't have much else to say. Love y'all
