My internet has been mighty shoddy lately, so I couldn't get pictures up, and hence no blog, since I didn't have anything to say so much as show, if you will. I'm liking Paris according to the weather these days, and as it's been sunny and warm for the most part, I like it. I've also been getting to see a different side of the city. In the same way girls have a special summer wardrobe, Paris, too, refrains from wearing white after Labor Day (or something). Anyway, enough of that, the point is that people are sprawling themselves every which way under the sun. I didn't know when I walked into the Luxembourg last week that there would be hundreds of people speckled across the lawns (the permitted lawns). So here is photographic proof that French people lay on grass.
Next order of business. Last Tuesday at the Louvre. Take a look. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Heyyyy, there's no people!
Our professor hooked us up with her curator friend Sébastien who let us into the Louvre on a closed day. Unfortunately no playing hide-and-seek.
Pretty spectacular walking around when no one's there. And a lot less enervating. I got to actually see the Mona Lisa, which is a little more impressive up close, cause honestly, I never really got it.
And a cool ceiling in the Opéra Garnier
Today I went to get my hair cut after class and ya know, I don't really care how poorly I described what I wanted, at no point did I mention Frankenstein or his bangs. And lacking though I am in vocabulary, I'm dead sure that "un peu" means "a little" and that signaling with your forefinger and thumb about an inch apart doesn't in fact mean, "an inch long." (because they use the metric system)
No wonder she kept repeating, in English, "Eets terr-ee-ble! Ho-ha." I thought she was just trying to be clever.
The worst part is I've been suffering through a horribly cumbersome, tenacious stage of shaggy bangage, all for the good of finally being rid of them. Well THANKS Mme. Unqualified. You managed to cut my hair as short as possible without digging into my scalp.
On a positive note, I recently bought an overpriced bowler hat, so at least I'll be getting use out of it.
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