week one: complete

i have been SO. BUSY. this past week! waking up at 7 every morning, in class from 9 to 5 (with a two hour lunch break)... it's like having a real job. it's intense. we've been focusing primarily on grammar, of course on the two tenses that i hate the most and never use (subjunctive and conditional). but i'm making friends with some of the kids in my class, which is pretty cool.

last night i had made sort-of-plans to go to the louvre with two girls named sarah and taylor, since for whatever reason it was free for university students. when i got there, it turns out that the girls thought it closed at 8 so didn't go, which left me wandering around the louvre by myself listening to holst's "the planets" on my iphone. it was an amazing experience and i'm actually glad it's something i did by myself; i felt sort of ethereal, floating from hall to hall in a near-empty museum. when it closed at 10 i grabbed some food at the nicest mcdonald's i've ever seen, and made my way over to the champs-elysees, which is the metro stop closest to taylor's apartment.

after about an hour of wandering, i finally found it off on some side street that i didn't even know was there. it was a little frustrating that i couldn't find it, and by the time i got there i was so tired, but like i said there's something sort of romantic about wandering the streets of paris by yourself. especially when you don't have a map.

(i can just see my mom cringing at the thought)

anyway, it's raining right now and i'm doing laundry. sandrine's nephew whose name i don't remember is visiting. he's a student at edinborough (sp?) university and when i walked downstairs in my pj's this morning he was sitting at the computer with no shirt on (!)

which reminds me that every. single. french. man. at my school is positively gorgeous and it's driving me crazy! yesterday i saw this guy who is a dead ringer for a young bob dylan... it's uncanny. i think if i see him again i am going to ask to take his picture.