Angelina's, Garnier, et les Tuileries, These are a Few of My Favorite Things!

List of Favorites!!!

Favorite building: L'Opera Garnier



Favorite stores: NafNaf and Kookai

Favorite Boulangerie: the yellow one next to school!

Favorite dessert and hot chocolate/sit down lunch: Mont Blanc (seriously. best food ever) at Angelina's

Favorite crepe: nutella, or lemon with sugar mmmmm

Favorite ice cream: Bertillon stand near Notre Dame



Favorite night scene: With the Science-Politiques crew


Favorite park: Tuileries or Place des Vosges (Champ du Mars under the Eiffel Tower is solid too...)


     
                                                        
Favorite patisserie: Patisserie des Rêves. Truly the bakery of dreams.



Favorite class: European Painters


Favorite "House of": House of Delacroix. I have developed an unhealthy something or other for this artist. I keep having to remind myself he's dead.....



Favorite metro: 10! It gets me so close to home


Favorite neighborhood: Latin Quarter or Marais


Favorite Church: St. Sulpice. Those Delacroix frescos...
 


Favorite apartment: 10 Henri Duchène (mine!)

Mama and Papa chez moi :)

If you ever get the chance to come, I promise these places are worth stopping at! Or just come visit me!


Mama and Papa and Aunt Meg came to visit this past weekend. We had the BEST time. Everything in Paris has been so busy, and new, and exciting, that I haven't really taken the opportunity to stop for a minute and realize how far from home I am... It was really nice to see family (no problems with constant supply of good food either!) The four of us crammed a week's worth into 3 days (Papa style) and did everything from museum tours to wandering around the Marais. Don't worry! I didn't let them leave without getting to some of my favorite places too :)


Midterms start next week so the pressure is on. I also realized why people don't take 3 art history classes at the same time. You end up with an absurd amount of research, and a whole lot of papers! Good think I love art! And I've found French people to edit my papers for me...


Tickets and hostel for Amsterdam is all booked! As is Barcelona the following weekend! Its funny, because I thought I was going to want to travel every weekend while I was here, but now that I found Parisians and know the city, I really just want to stay in Paris. Dare I say stay forever? I have found a independent, confident, carefree and happy person here that I love being, and I never want her to go away.


Now I am procrastinating research proposals (yep - thats plural) and finishing the zillions of flashcards I must memorize! I also have to find an article to present for Adv. Convo. I think I'll do an article from Le Monde about an old hospital/museum fighting foreclosre. That, or an article on the "Trocs," the male ballet troupe on pointe! Looks like a Nuit Blanche (white night, all nighter)