Yesterday was the Sciences Po day of integration and then pub-crawl around/through Bastille. I didn't meet my buddy (french student assigned to be my friend...poor kid) since the thing was so disorganized. However I did manage to skip out early and go eat a crepe...
Then I got to Bastille and found a gelato/coffee place to chill while waiting for everybody else. There was a Floridian who was so "American tourister" I really couldn't handle it. No effort to speak French whatsoever. He just spoke English with the barista and expected things to work like back home and got frustrated when the barista had a hard time understanding him. I had a hard time understanding him too since he wanted to know exactly which of the 30 or so flavors were yogurt, which were gelato, which were sorbet, etc. There's a sign, genius. He sat next to me and I asked him if he'd ever thought about getting a phrase-book.
The pub-crawl was quite entertaining and there was an 89€ giant mojito involved. I paid 5€ for a coke. It was great. Best coke I've ever drunk in my life. Really.
A few days ago we toured around the Marais - we walked over a bridge near the Notre Dame and there were a bunch of keys locked onto it. If you write the name of you and your lovah then you'll stay together forever, I think is the general idea. But then I saw this...
Then I got to Bastille and found a gelato/coffee place to chill while waiting for everybody else. There was a Floridian who was so "American tourister" I really couldn't handle it. No effort to speak French whatsoever. He just spoke English with the barista and expected things to work like back home and got frustrated when the barista had a hard time understanding him. I had a hard time understanding him too since he wanted to know exactly which of the 30 or so flavors were yogurt, which were gelato, which were sorbet, etc. There's a sign, genius. He sat next to me and I asked him if he'd ever thought about getting a phrase-book.
The pub-crawl was quite entertaining and there was an 89€ giant mojito involved. I paid 5€ for a coke. It was great. Best coke I've ever drunk in my life. Really.
A few days ago we toured around the Marais - we walked over a bridge near the Notre Dame and there were a bunch of keys locked onto it. If you write the name of you and your lovah then you'll stay together forever, I think is the general idea. But then I saw this...
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| China & Germany. |
Let's see. We went on a boat cruise of the Seine, got rained on but still saw some awesome monuments. Had a family-style dinner with lots of cheese, bread, wine, and the best hummus I've ever eaten. OH YEAH also went to supposedly the best falafel place in the world. It was quite spectacular. Now I'm hungry again writing about it. So many other awesome things happened but I'm in the mood for a run so I'll update later maybe. Ran past a prison yesterday. It was pretty creepy. I ran fast. Probs gonna go the other direction today.
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| Stalls along the Seine - books, postcards from 1930s Paris, paintings. |
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