What I Love About Paris

This is almost a silly post title, because I love everything about Paris! The list of things I love is never ending! But, today I have to comment on a particular thing I love.
Some of the things that are sterotypical about Paris or the French, or not actually the way it is here. For example, no one actually wears berets, and little scarves tied around their neck. However, the idea that everyone walks around with a baguette in their hand is extremely true!
It is so fun and adorable! Everyone you see walks around les rues with a french baguette traditionel from their local boulangerie. Some are nibbling on the end of it, some are saving it for the cheese they also puchased next door at the fromagerie. It makes you have to one too of course! The other thruth is that in Paris, wine is cheaper than water. Everyone drinks wine with every meal, you need wine to live. And I agree.

2E can get you a delicious bottle of wine
3E can get you a fresh baguette and your wine, and
6E can get you a wonderful chunk of fromage, that fresh baguette, and the wine!

So for 6E, you can have the ultimate French meal of delight. Tonight, chez nous, we had a delightful Chardonny, a cripsy baguette from the boulangerie, and pont l'eveque! All while listening to Frank Sinatra. It was magnifique! I could do it every night, with a different wine and a different cheese!

Earlier today, we woke up and went on a run through les jardins des tuileries! It was such a beautiful day today. We did a couple laps around les jardins, around the louvre, and then sat by the beautiful fountain, where you can see straight up le champs to the obelisk and l'arc de triomphe! It is quite a wonderful view, and the sun was shining, cute french children were all around me, and little french ducks were swimming in the water! Caroline and I stayed there for awhile, resting and loving Paris. It made me wonder.....why does everyone in the world not want to live here?

We went to church this afternoon, and then went to the Centre Pompdiou, because it was free! The public museums are free on the first Sunday of every month. I was glad it was free because
I would have rather spent my euros on macarons, to be honest. There was no Warhol, and only 1 Pollock. So I was disappointed. It is nowhere near the wonderment of le musee d'orsay or louvre. But, I am glad I saw it, and the building itself is tres amazing, and it has a breath-taking view of Montmarte and Sacre Coeur, my favorite church. There are so many musees I want to see while I am here, I will have to do at least 1 a week to fit them all in.

Tomorrow I begin school! I have class basically all day until 3. But I am oddly excited to see what classes are like here, make friends, and hang out on the champs de mars between classes. A semester of school that I am looking forward to.....only in France!