What a great weekend. Friday afternoon IES payed for us to eat lunch on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower (sooo yummy) and great views! So we got a free ticket up and a free meal! Then that evening Remi and I went to a "cabaret" (more of a vegas show girls show) in Pigale and it was a blast. My favorite act they did was the french Can Can. It was amazing; the girls were squealing the whole time they were dancing and it was soo much fun! We had the chance to walk around Montmatre before the show and had dinner at a really good restaurant in the area.
Saturday I met Amanda for lunch and then we met up with some of her friends from back home that happened to be passing through. We hung out with them and a gaggle of others for the rest of the day and had dinner at Pizza Pino's on the Champs Elysee! (good suggestion Laniers! :) We had planned to go out Friday and Saturday evening but ended up being to exhausted both nights to do anything. We decided the way to do it is spend the day doing nothing if you're going to go out to clubs. They don't even open until 11:00 and it doesn't really get going until about 1:00 am. :P
Sunday was AMAZING! I went to Versailles with Amanda and her friends and we spent 7 hours there! We made sure and got there right when it opened (9:00 am) and it was perfect! The line for tickets wasn't too long and we got through the chateau before it got too crowded. It was the Journe du Patrimoine this weekend (which means pretty much all museums, and a number of other attractions, are open for free) so we got to go into Marie Antoinette's chateau and grounds for free! It was a really interesting experience. Apparently she had a play area/village built for her (she was 15 when she became queen) where she would go with her friends and play peasants. She had cows, goats, and other animals brought in so they could pretend, but of course not actually take care of them. So they brought farmers in to tend to them. Pretty crazy to think that she was doing all that while Paris was starving.
I also got to try my first Creme Brulee! It was delicious!
Classes started today; I had Bandes Desinees (comic strips/books) et Societe and Cinema et Societe. They both seem like they are going to be really interesting and a lot of fun. I was quite impressed with myself when I could comprehend - pretty much - everything the professors were saying! Hopefully it will continue to get easier. My biggest problem right now is having the confidence to speak myself!
Hope everything is going well back in the States!
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