TEST DAYYYY!!! 3 hours of grammar exercises, oral comprehension, written comprehension and essay quelle horreur!! Oh well, we’ll see the result when the result is in. I did my best and that’s all that counts!!
After class, we all were going to go to this fashion show at Galeries Lafayette but we didn’t get an email back from them confirming our reservation free seats, so we voted to not go, instead we went to THE PANTHEON!! It was so beautiful and they had pistachio gelato near the beautiful building, YAY!
Before there, I stopped by a Boulangerie for a pizza and a macaroon, SO YUMMY
Anyways, at the Pantheon we saw the crypt and payed homage to Victor Hugo’s tomb and Zola and Rousseau and then just saw the beautiful architecture and it was swell. Then we caught a metro to Champs Elysees for gazing at the street, wandering the rue and just being Parisien. We stopped in a café to rest our feet, I bought a fruit pressee or a special orange juice haha and it was grand and we people-watched. Then we grabbed some to-go food at a Monoprix, aka a supermarket, and then caught a metro to Jardin des Tuileries and munched on our food which for me included brebis and chicken Caesar wrap thingys, a beignet of hazelnut chocolate filling and some of Jenna’s pistachios.
After Tuileries and good conversation, we walked to la Louvre, which is free for students on Friday nights and it started to sprinkle a little rain so it was perfect. We walked around the Egyptian area, saw a Kingston? I don’t remember his name but he made collages of paper and used charcoal and it made a sphinx with a moving tale, sooo neat. Saw beautiful art, including la bainoire I think it’s called? The one with the two naked ladies in a bath? Its super famous and we saw it, and the art portrait of Richelieu and the rape in the sabines, etc. I love it. And I got my picture taken with La Jaconde today, MONA LISA I adore her.
After 3ish hours in the Louvre, we sat outside until 10pm to see the pyramid glow and took some more pictures. Had a blast, walked back to Les Tuilerieis, got a crepe with banana and nutella and walked around the carnival that is there for a short bit. Took a metro and came home for packing for STRASBOURG THIS WEEKEND!! I go to Versailles with my ISA group tomorrow and leave early for Gare de L’Est and take a 7pm train to Strasbourg where my friend Cassandra will meet me and show me a great time, SO EXCITED! I need to pack. What an INCREDIBLE day.
Countdown at number 8 today...so weird, starting to get melancholy missing Paris
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