Sunday, January 24, 2010

Ma Chambre, Part Deux

Welcome to my cozy room in my new apartment! I live off the metro stop Rue Saint-Maur in the 11th quarter of Paris. I like to describe the area as a charming balance between seedy and student-y.
futon-bed = coach/bed whenever i see fit
my usual view from my couch-bed.


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.

Friday, January 22, 2010

???!!!

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 !!!

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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!

Monday, January 18, 2010

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.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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.