Monday
After class we did walk #10: «Playing Hooky in Le Quartier Latin». We started at Fontaine Saint-Michel and walked along the streets which were full of little shops and restaurants. One thing to warn you about: most of the restaurants will have a person standing at the door and if you stop for a second to check the menu, they will try their hardest to convince you to eat there. Anyways, we stopped at l'église Saint-Séverin which was beautiful (like every other church we've been to this trip. Seriously. So many churches) We stopped for lunch and I got steak-frites!!! I don't think you understand how cool it was to see that in real life after having it on like every vocab list ever since freshman year high school French. Ok maybe I exaggerated a little but still, it was a cool "coming-full-circle" type of moment. After that we finished the walk by strolling along the seine and Pont Neuf (@ my freshman year Paris project). There were lots of bouquinistes and I got all my souvenir shopping done #yay. After the walk we went to Shakespeare and Co. and sat in the park to get our homework done. After, we went home to regroup before heading back out for FHE that night which was a really cool experience. After that we left early to have dinner with our host mom which was delicious (comme d'habitude)
Tuesday
Walk #4 «Of Art, War, and World's Fairs: Les Invalides, Musée Rodin, La Tour Eiffel». We started over at Champs-Elysées and walked past the Grand Palais and the Petit Palais and then headed over to Esplanade des Invalides where we got Domino's pizza for lunch. Classy. I know. Then we went inside Invalides and saw Napoleans tomb. When we got out we saw lots of people and smoke in the street so of course we went to see what was going on. Turned out to be a manifestation and around that time it started raining. Yaya. We headed into the army museum at Hôtel des Invalides which was also really cool to see more modern stuff in a museum. Next on the list was Musée Rodin which was actually a really cool (and small) museum with beautiful gardens that would've been even cooler if it wasn't pouring. After we met up with some people visiting from Utah and we went up to Sacre-Cœur which was gorgeous and I got soaked. Then later we all met up again to watch the lights at the Eiffel-Tower and rent bikes. PSA: if you have not biked along the seine and through the Latin quarter at night, you have not been doing life correctly. By far one of my favorite nights to date.
Wednesday
We had class at the BYU apartment and then headed over together to go into Petit Palais which is now a museum and had a lot of 16th and 17th century art which is what we're studying right now so that was cool. After that I took a nap. Very nice and very needed.
Thursday (aujourd'hui!!!)
This morning after class we did walk #6: «Marcher le nez au vent: sights and smells around the Madeleine». It was a really cool walk. We went into two churches (surprise surprise) but they were both really cool. One was inside a Parthenon looking building and the inside kinda matched that as well. Afterwards we went to a museum of perfume. So sick. Of course I bought one (it was actually really cheap. Like same price as Bath & Body Works. But like actually smells really good) after taking a tour through the museum (which was actually super interesting and one of my favorite museums so far) we headed over to Musée d'Orsay for a tour with our group. So. Cool. I love art. Especially when a very smart person is explaining everything to you. Right after the tour we hopped on the RER to Versailles and I am still sitting on the train rn lol. Why are we going to Versailles you ask? BECAUSE UCHTDORF IS SPEAKING THERE TONIGHT. can you tell I'm excited? Along with being excited; I'm also late. But that's okay. Mormon standard time right? That's all for now but I'll finish up tonight when I get home (hopefully lol)One last thing: I LOVE PARIS AND ITS ALREADY BEEN 3 WEEKS AND TIME IS GOING BY TOO FAST AND IT MAKES ME SCARED AND SAD BECAUSE I DON'T EVER WANT THIS TRIP TO END. Ok tantrum over we can all go back to being responsible adults now. Â bientôt.
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Update: we got on the wrong train hahahahahah my life. we ended up on the opposite side of the city of Versailles so we walked fast/jogged/ran to the Palais des Congrès and made it in time to see Uchtdorf speak!!! and it was so good!!! He talked about so many things that I wanted/needed to hear and overall it was an amazing experience. Afterwards we grabbed some (delicious) dinner; you can never go wrong with 5 euro kebabs. yum. afterwards we got on the RER back to Paris and there were like 8 missionaries and 10 of us BYU kids on the train! It was quite amusing. we all went around and said our names ad where we were from and it was cool to see all the connections. Man I love Mormons and missionaries. As we were transferring to the metro a girl came up and asked if we were from BYU and turns out she graduated from there and is now trying to find a job in Paris. Her friend ended up on the same metro as us and her name is Stephanie (!!!!) and as we left we got bises (!!!!our first real ones from a french person!!!) all in all it was a long but utterly amazing day. I love life. Like wow. On that note, imma hit the hay and get some shut eye to catch up. Peace and blessings.
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