Wine Country!

Seriously considering renting a car and planning a wine-country-wine-tasting trip outside of Paris (Alsace? Loire Vallery??). Am now accepting any and all suggestions! :-]

LES SOLDES

It's Sunday morning and everything is closed. Comme d'habitude, I suppose. I have one mosquito bite on the top of my left foot: this really bothers me.

Yesterday... I slept in and then met up with Co, one of the "new kids" of the USC Paris program. Together, we stormed Rue St-Honoré with heated window-shopping and general exploring of Les Soldes. I was unprepared for the rumored treasures of Parisian Soldes, but they were pretty eye-popping. They only come twice a year, in January and July, and I've finally caught them!

Justine made some new additions to our apartment, a new table and chair, je pense. She found them on the street during late treks home, just like another chair we already had. The XX - Crystalline is playing in the living room and I just moved all the space heaters to strategically better positions. It's 12:41 pm and it's a Sunday - what to do?

I'm about 2/3 through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, so I 'spose I'll find a cozy café or tea room open to get some reading under my belt. Apologies for the static blogging, my brain isn't quite functioning up to it's normal fluid speed. Things are toppling out like a bin of legos right now, and I can't yet find the means to build anything too formidable.

Bien, bien.

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Tried to stay up as late as I could, went to bed at 8pm (set my alarm for 7:30am)... Woke up at midnight, stayed up till 6am... WOKE UP AT 1pm !!!

Too Jet-Lagged

...to blog. But I landed around 10:30am, met a really friendly French guy named Dimitri from the Loire Valley, met some of my program peeps, etc. Will elaborate on this further tomorrow!

Hello Readers

I'm back, and blogging!

I've been spending the last three weeks between San Diego and Los Angeles, and it has been fabulous; not to mention so much cheaper! I'm eager to start blogging again during my next semester in Paris; and I hope you're all following along with me!

You'll get to meet my new Parisian roommate, Justine Audrain, and experience pitfalls and triumphs the Parisian way.

I Want to Move to Brussels

Thanks to my Dad and all his international connections, I stayed the weekend in Brussels with Joelle and her family. She and Rinaud were incredibly generous and for the first time in a long time, I felt at Home... Her apartment/house was an artist's DREAM world.

Basque Country Lunch

After the Segway tour, Dad and I followed the recommendation of our American guide's suggestion to eat at a restaurant a few blocks from the Segway City Tours office. Menus handwritten in scrawled French cursive. Not a lick of English in sight! Always a good sign as to the quality of the restaurant.

Metro: Dupleix