EnglishMufinHead

I will write more about my internship at a later day, but I thought I'd just fill ya'll in on the biggest news in Paris. LES BLEUS beat the ALL BLACKS! Do you even know what that means? Well... I learned this weekend. Apparently, Rugby has become quite popular around these parts, especially given that the Coupe du Monde is taking place (mostly) in Paris. There is a huge TV set up outside the Hôtel de Ville (center of government) in the middle of Paris with areas to sit (including alcohol checks.. odd.. it just encourages people to stand around the perimeter drinking beers until they decide to jump the fence to sit and watch)... but everyone who isn't there goes to a bar and watches. On Saturday my friends and I decided we should do ... read more

I'M BACK! As previously mentioned, I spent this past week traveling around Prague and Berlin. Let's start off with Prague, since that's where we went first. Stephanie and I got up super early to catch a 8:30am flight out of Charles de Gaulle on Smartwings and arrived in beautiful Prague after having to navigate their train system, getting screwed out of 30 CZH (we think), trying to determine the conversation rate that neither of us had thought to look up, figuring out how much CZH we might need for two days, then wandering around in circles trying to find the hostel. The hostel was a hostel. Not great at all, but it had internet access, free (gross) breakfast, cute reception boys, and a "bed." We shared a room with 2 sweedish boys and a sweedish girl, ... read more

This week was a little different from the rest as we had all our normal afternoon classes cancelled and replaced with field trips and movies and such. Monday, we were introduced to our wonderfully gay and highly energetic art history professor who was our first non professor teacher. He had us was "Le Roi Danse", an amazing film about the life of Louis XIV and how he made Paris a center of art and culture... highly recommended (stop complaining, I know it's in French but you can add subtitles!). After class on Monday, I had my interview for my internship. I was so nervous going into it as I'm only used to American style interviews where they grill you and analyze every little story you tell to try to paint yourself in a wonderful shining light. ... read more

So I thought I'd add another quick update as a certain Ms. Spanier seemed upset that I hadn't updated much lately... although this is going to be quick as it's almost midnight and I was supposed to be asleep by 9pm owing to lack of sleep recently, but there were certain domestic issues that had to be delt with first. To begin with, I made dinner! Look... pretty picture to prove I can COOK! All by myself! Oh, and I did laundry! Apparently the machines take 2 hours just to wash the clothes here, but I'm lucky enough to actually have a machine in the apartment I'm living in, although no dryer, so I have wet clothes hanging all around me right now! But be proud... it only took me 2.5 weeks to do laundry! Our ... read more