I hope this isn't a foreshadowing of what my semester at IES is going to be like, but I haven't been able to contact my host family. Not because they don't answer, but because the emails keep bouncing back, saying the address isn't deliverable. IES hasn't responded to my emails about it yet, hopefully i'll hear about it soon.
starting to get nervous, but incredibly excited too.
Going to visit Purdue this week was great, i loved seeing people again, even if it was short, but it reminded me of what all i'll be missing this semester. I hope you all have a FABULOUS semester, and I want to hear all about it. In other Purdue news, I was nominated to be an undergraduate theatre representative next year, which should be cool. I would love to be one, I don't know what all I'll have to do for running, and if i'm in Paris, how feasible it would be, but it was good to know I was nominated :) If any theatre people read this, thanks for the honor!
Salut!
My adventures abroad...
About Me
Touristy Things i've done so far:
- become incredibly dizzy going down the 422 steps of the spiral staircase of Notre Dame Cathedral
- been hit on by suspicious middle aged european men
- bought/written post cards
- climbed Montmartre
- climbed the 422 steps of the Notre Dame Cathedral
- destroyed personal property for the sake of a photo
- hit up an overpriced American focused dive bar
- missed my metro stop/gone the wrong way on a line
- not been able to go five minutes, err, seconds, without stopping to take more pictures
- received bad customer service because of my lack of french
- risked my life for the sake of a photo
- rode les Car Rouges
- saw Place de la Bastille
- saw Place de la Concorde
- saw the Eiffel Tower
- saw the Pantheon
- seen Place St. Michel
- taken an absurd number of pics of the Eiffel Tower
- taken pictures of buildings/statues/objects that i could not later identify
- visited la Louvre
- visited Musee d'Orsay
- visited Notre Dame du Paris
- walked the Jardins du Louxembourg
- walked the Red Light District/saw Moulin Rouge
Parisian Things i've done so far:
- ate beaucoup du fromage
- ate beaucoup du pain
- ate fondue at a french restaurant with french people
- attended classes at a french university
- babysat
- became more judgemental of others fashion choices
- been late
- bought clothes i didn't need just because the sales were almost over
- bought my fresh produce at the tri-weekly neighborhood marché
- bought text books from Gilbert Jaune
- climbed Montmartre
- diné en famille
- discovered a diamond-in-the-rough chinese restaurant
- experienced "les soldes"
- gone to a local mass
- gone to a political rally
- gone to le Marché aux Puces
- gotten my groove on in an overcrowded, smoky bar
- had friends over for a dinner party
- people watched in the Jardins des Tuileries
- ran into friends in the middle of the city completely unexpectedly
- read the free metro newspaper every morning
- read while sitting next to la Seine
- received bad customer service
- received terrific customer service
- rode the metro
- sat in a park on a sunday afternoon and people watched
- sat silently on the metro staring at a complete stranger
- seen La Mome and fallen in love with Edith Piaf
- shown someone around "my" Paris
- spent a sunday afternoon in the Marais, just because
- spent a sunday afternoon people watching in front of Hotel de Ville, just because
- spent over an hour in a music store listening to new music
- stepped around lots of dog crap
- visited La Louvre
- visited Musee d'Orsay
- walked away from a museum because of the line
- walked the Jardins de Louxembourg
- wore 3inch heels when it would have been practical to wear tennis shoes. And been happy about the choice.
- wore leggings, a skirt, and ballet flats
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