What a long and busy weekend! Thursday night I went to a club with several friends that is free for students with an ID every Thursday until December 20. We're thinking of making it regular. There were three different rooms: Electro and House, R'n'B Chic and Latino, and 80s/Disco. There were a lot of people there and it was really a fun time. It's actually within walking distance of where I live, which was really nice after dancing for almost 3 hours.
Friday I went to the library at Centre Pompidou to work on an art history project. After being there for a couple hours, I came back home for lunch and then tried to go to the Musee Picasso to see the painting for which I'm preparing a presentation. Unfortunately, it's closed until Wednesday, which is the day my presentation has to be ready. I went to the library again on Sunday, because it is also closing for several days starting Monday. Outside, there was a street performer (there are always several in that area) who had taken 4 volunteers from the audience and was directing them in a very funny skit. Unfortunately, I only caught the end, but it was extremely entertaining. Love triangles in comedy always are....
Saturday was another excursion with BU. We went to Barbizon (which houses a museum building where many famous painters used to stay), Courances (a small town with a chateau that has beautiful water gardens and fresh springs, in which three generations of one family currently live), and Dannemois (close to Courances, where we had dinner at the only business in town). It was an absolutey gorgeous day and I bought some rainboots, which is very appropriate because it rained today for the first time. I filled up my water bottle with spring water in Courances. In Dannemois, we also saw the grave of Claude Francois, who is basically the Elvis of France, with impersonators and all. For dinner, I had duck with figs and it was the best meal I've had since I've been here. There was live music and wine and everyone was in great spirits. We got back to Paris about an hour later than expected, but luckily since it was the weekend the metro was still running.
Today I tried doing laundry for the first time. I put all my clothes in my backpacking backpack and walked to the laundromat. I had to have help doing it all right, but after that I helped a guy from South Africa who didn't really speak French figure out the machines. I didn't have enough time to dry the clothes, so they're currently hanging up in my room.
Friday I have a cooking class and this weekend is my trip to the Loire Valley with the Club International des Jeunes a Paris. We're meeting at 6:30am Saturday morning, so I'm staying in Friday night and babysitting the kids in my host family.
On a side note, I went into Virgin Records to buy some books and KT Tunstell was giving a mini-concert, so that was neato. Now....I must get some work done. Until next time..... ca y est!
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