Eurotrippin

Allo!

Saturday! Hungover! Well sorta. We ended up going out last night, first to a bar called the Panic Room, which we had flaming absinthe drinks and some other decent drinks. After that we went to this bar called “Pop In” just down the street a little. It was way better, a bit smaller and we stayed there for a couple hours just having a good time! And we managed to catch the last metro back to Place D’Italie and walked home from there.

Woke up around 9 and slept until 10:30/11ish then got up. It was a beautiful day. Just amazing. The sun was out, it was clear and a nice 50-60 degrees out. I got up and went to lunch with Bret and the others. It was good! Well eh maybe just ok. They have pretty weird food here at the FIAP. Its like not bad, but very hostel food. Honestly I think everyone just really enjoys the cheese plates best. Cheese and bread, soo good!. So yeah. Had some lunch and decided I really needed to work. Got back up to the room, Oh and Im not sure If I mentioned this before, but they make our beds everyday, and I LOVE IT. As many of you probably already know nothing makes me happier than getting into a made bed at the end of the day. And so I get to do that everyday here! Its really great. So yeah I came back upstairs and got ready to go out just as the maids were doing our beds. Got my camera, the little digital and went off. I had planned on doing a walk through the Marais. So I decided to go from the Denfert-Rochereau station up to Saint Denis and just walk down. It was a pleasant ride. Got there. And started walking. It was so so so nice. People were out, places were open, and it was really feeling good. So I walked in a sorta haphazard way toward the Marais and all about. I was basing my general walk on the walk in the book “Walks through Lost Paris” but since it was just slightly to big to fit in my back pocket I didn’t bring it. That’s ok though, I had fun trying to find my way. (I find that I’d rather just wander and find cool things on my own than anything else. Like much of my other work in photography, its based on “the walk” and chance and my experience of the moment.) It was a lot of fun and I’ll post a map of my route. The real surprise was that I got lost sorta and ended up on the Rue de Rivoli ☺ and walked down it for a while to pass by all the fun tourist shops and my favorite, Le Meurice, and ened up going home by way of the Place Concorde metro stop. Pretty crazy and confusing, but a lot of fun. I had planned on stopping at both the Boulanger and the wine store on my way home to get things for tonight, but I was jjst too exhausted, so I just went right home.

Took a quick nap and went to dinner. Oh and I got my letter from Minali today. Well actually its 21 letters in 1. One for each day left of break starting on the 20th! I knew I was getting a surprise in my letter, but this was a really great surprise! Anyways we all went to dinner, which was as usual pretty meh. But then we all went back up and watched eurotrip. How cliché! But still a lot of fun. Its such a good movie when your in the right mood to watch it. And now I think some of the others are going out again tonight, but Im just too tired to bother. Plus Im not really in the mood to go spend more money on drinks and shit and I want to be able to wake up before 11 and actually get some real work done tomorrow, maybe even take the 4x5 out!

Ummmm that might be it for now, I hope everyone at home and providence is doing well! ☺