Yesterday was yet another glorious day in Paris! After a fun first night out on the town (Love my Florida girls!), I had class (don't worry Mom and Dad, I woke up for it even after getting in at 4 in the morning!) and then for my Art and Architecture class we went to a part of Paris called Marais. It is one of the older parts of the city with architecture from before the modernization of Paris after the Revolution in the 1850s during the rule of Napoleon when Haussman knocked down all of the city and rebuilt it! Neighborhoods were completely demolished so that streets could be built wider, and the city walls expanded making Paris even larger, and of course gaining more tax payers.(I'm learning so much already!) I've never been the history type really, well at all actually, but this class makes it so fun to learn! Every day we either walk around a different place in Paris or go to a museum (yesterday we did both! We went to the Pavillion de l'Arsenal, a museum of architecture in Paris that shows the transformation of the city! In the middle they had a huge 17 screen digital map of Paris, basically a huge GoogleMaps app that you could scroll around! So cool!) I understand my surroundings and why buildings are built the way they are and the influence that the Romans had on the city. Is it nerdy I can't wait to tell people about the history of Paris? A little bit, but it gets me so excited! And our professor was nice enough to give us a whole list of places to go in Paris, from the off beat Soho like area, to a little China town, and a bunch of cheap places we should try different food at! I wish I had time to add some pictures, but I am here for school after all and I have class pretty soon.
As I was sitting here getting ready for class, towel on my head an all, I was thinking about my day; wake up early, write a paper while sipping on tea and eating my bread and jam, get ready, go to class, eat lunch (aka more bread), go to the Louvre for my Art class, then wherever the night leads me (it is a "Friday", no class tomorrow, woo!) I couldn't help but think about how lucky I am to be here. I miss all of you back in the US (especially you Bouchie Bunch!! Hope you're having sweet dreams right now!), but not many people can say they have done even a handful of the opportunities I have been given here. It just feels nice to take a moment and let it all sink in, even at 9 o'clock in the morning.
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