Hey my avid readers! So I just got back home from the bars! But let me tell you about my whole day! MONDAY! Woke up and went off to class determined to get some actual work done (and by that I mean film) today. Went into SPEOS to load some 4x5 and go off. It was kinda rainy going into class and it stayed that way for a while. After loading film I left SPEOS and went to the BelleVille metro stop where I had been before. It was my goal to find the BelleVille Parc, I had heard of amazing views from the top! Well I found it! It was beautiful! Like OMG! So perfectly situated atop the hill. (There was some construction going on, a children’s jungle gym was being built). But besides that I climbed to the first peak of the park and found a pleasant little bench and view. Just as I had climbed to it it started to rain ☹ And the ground was wet and I got mud on my shoes – No Beuno. But other than that I was surrounded by this really ethereal sort of mist. It was soo cool! So also I found out that like 5 or 6 cats love to hang around this area, which was soo nice to see! I miss my cats back home and It was so nice to see so many cats (they looked to healthy to be strays) in the park. Anyways I continued on through the park – Oh I should note that I think for my friday crit Im going to exclusively photograph this park and some of the streets around it. I really love parks and this one in particular seemed to be so pleasant! So I continued on throught the park upwards and onwards! Just near the peak of it I looked down and saw what seemed to be a TV show shoot! I stayed and watched for a while. I saw a woman in red dancing and singing and the film crew getting set up. And in the distance on the highest point of the park I could see a couple practicing like some form of martial arts. I went over to look closer and then looked out onto the city and I could see all of Paris. It was beautiful! It totally made my day! It had stopped raining but it was still foggy and I could just see the Eifel tower in the distance wrapped in a layer of fog. I stayed there for a while to take it all in and then continued to the bottom of the park. When I got down to the bottom I worked my way over to the metro to get back home. But before that reached the metro I stopped in one of the oldest cafes in paris (I’m trying to look up the name now but I cant – I’ll post it later) and had a café crème, and watched American pop music videos on tv. I love how American pop is one of the biggest exports to Europe!

Anyways, I got back to the FIAP finally and realized I wanted some bread and cheese!!! So I left swiftly to find it. The cheese was easy, at the super marche a metro stop away, but when I got the Boulanger down the street I found it closed on Mondays!! WTF why would you close on a Monday, people are hungry!! So I went off to find another on my walk to FIAP ( I knew of another off a side street) meanwhile just as I left the first it started to rain. And when I found the second Boulanger it was closed too!! And it was still raining!!! I was sooo annoyed!! I was determined though and continued up the street until I found yet a third one. And wouldn’t you know just as I had walked out of it with a baguette in hand the rain stopped and the sun came out. Honest to god, it was like a miracle. I was happy and so was the weather!!! So I went back and ate it up!

From there on my day was pretty normal. I took a brief nap and took a shower and stayed in the room for a while until about 10:30ish when some of us decided to go out for a couple drinks. And that’s basically what we did. We went out for a few hours and got some drinks. Nothing fancy, just beers. But it was all pretty empty being a Monday night – nothing really exciting. Anyways that’s been my day! Im pretty tired now so Im going to go off to bed ☺

Hope you all are having fun!!!