Encore!

I'm really sorry that I'm so terrible at this whole updating thing! I should get in the habit of doing shorter blurbs so  I don't feel like these are huge time wasters.

I finally start class tomorrow (well the rest of them besides grammar), so I'm pretty excited about that. I have 2 lectures. One is 19th and 20th century literature and art and the other is French gastronomy (my dream class, I know). Also, I start a phonetics class and the aspect of speaking French normally terrifies me, let alone when I need to do it and be graded on it.. But nonetheless it'll be good to do something with my time and improve my French. I feel like it's already starting to get a little bit better!

So this week I didn't do too much since I had grammar still. I managed to swtich from elementaire (low intermediate which made me want to throw bricks at everyone in my class) to intermediate! Also, my new professor is FANTASTIC! She is this skinny, tall French woman who waves her arms around a alot and gestures and makes silly faces. She's my kind of French professor!

But I did go to Musee d'Orsay twice this week. I've gone through almost all of the museum at this point I believe. And the last time was the first that I remembered about the glass floor you walk on to look at a mini model of part of Paris surrounding the Opera Garnier (the Opera House). It was really wild. And they have a sick decorative arts collection!

This weekend was terrible. Not in the sense of what I did, but weather-wise. It was cold and rainy and miserable to be outside for more than five minutes. Saturday I got a library card! I'm glad my professor made us do it! I already managed to find the cookbooks in the library right around the corner from my foyer! In front of the library is an open air market! I think I'm going to make it a goal to buy food from there before I go. I'm too scared to now and that I'll order too much of something. I need to get a better grasp on this metric system first! Also, I  hung out with Jessie. We visited L'Arc de Triomphe, tried to go to the Louvre and realized it was CRAZY busy and left, and then went to Fodour for chocolates! OMG! They were my first Parisian chocolates and boy did they NOT dissapoint! It was a really fun day just wandering around Paris, even if the weather was worse for wear.

Sunday I went with Maureen and her parents to Versailles. I didn't expect to go visit it so soon! It was magnificant and really is a grand chateau! Everything had such detail and no stone was left unturned when it came to decorating that place! They really put a lot of thought into it! It was really cold to walk/take a little trolly to Grand Trianon, but that was still pretty too. Not as fancy since it wasn't in Louix XIV style, but it still had an opulence to it.

That's about it for now. Wish me luck on classes this week!