What a wonderful, rainy, Parisienne day! It literally rained all day - and I was sans parapluie! I usually hate the rain. But as I crossed the Pont Neuf towards home, watching the rain fall into the Seine and the fog settle around Notre Dame, listening to Edith Piaf on my Ipod, holding my baguette and bottle of Pinot Noir - I felt so French, and so fabulous. It was a moment I wanted to freeze. If there is any city in the world where rain only makes the city a new kind of wonderful, instead of ultimate doom - it's Paris. Rain is so iconic Paris than you actually kind of love it here when it rains.
I am fini with my exams! Ohhhh, it feels wonderful! I had my French oral this morning - which went....okay. I had to talk about myself and my aspriations, say my plans for the future, give advice to Madame about a "faux probleme" and them do a skit-type thing where I got to yell and pretend I was angry. Then I had to read some of le petit prince, where I was graded on pronounciation. Which is my weakness, as I am still striving to conquer the french "R." But I think that everything went bien.
I had a two hour break until my architecture class was meeting in les jardins de luxembourg, so I went to the area early to go the la musee Luxembourg, where there is a Tiffany Glass exhibit, which was okay - but not my favorite of exhibits I have seen here. Today my class went to the Palais Luxembourg, Chapelle de la Sourbonne, et Val de Grace. We are now studying Louis XIV and Baroque architecture. So the places we visited were all examples of that, and were all quite belle!
Like I said, it rained continuously, and I did not want to go all the way home to get my umbrella, so I just got wet. Good thing I woke up late and did not have time to wash my hair - because it was soaked and pulled back into a sopping wet bun by the end of my class. Once I got home, I took a hot shower, poured myself a glass of wine - and began to cook while I continued listening to Edith (the female, French-version of Sinatra). It was all quite magnifique!
I also booked my ticket to Florence! You can fly ridiculously cheap within Europe - so I am going to visit my friend Dyne- who is at FITFlorence, and eat some pizza and gelato and say ciao all weekend! How fun!! I have a long weekend because of "All Saints Day" - so I get to spend 5 days in Florence. I may even train-it over to Rome for a day or two to see the Vatican and Trevi Fountain, but I may be too in love with Florence to leave. I took Art History at FIT and learned so much about Florence, I cannot wait to see everything and actually be there! I have quite a busy November now! Florence, then London, then Holland! I am so thrilled to be able to travel in Europe. I have dreamed of doing this, and seeing these places my entire life! And to finally get to go, to see the things I've studied, be in the places I've dreamed of, visit friends, and to experience the culture - I am simply at a loss for words except for - I LOVE Europe. I LOVE Paris. I LOVE traveling.
That's all there is to it mes amis!
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