Mon week-end

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. ~Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The post is for June 8 and 9, 2013. I am combining the two days because not whole lot happened. 

On Saturday June 8 I slept in late because that was the day after my lovely Normandy trip. I just lounged around and watched my assigned documentaries until I was ready to go grab a crepe (which I am now addicted to) from the stand down a tram stop. And then it was off to a classical concert of Stuztmann Melodies at Cité de la musique. It was in a fairly modern building and there of course was a major fountain right outside like there always is. The concert was a woman with a very low voice singing in either German or French so I didn't understand squawk but she was a very lovely singer. The musical majors in our group just worshiped her because she is such a good singer and her voice was such a rich earthy low tone for a woman.

After the concert a group of us tried to go to a piano bar but they only took reservations and conveniently didn't tell us that until after we left and ate and then came back for the music. But I had delicious lasagna without ricotta cheese(!!) from an Italian restaurant. We ate out on the street and although it was windy it was fun to eat out on the sidewalk.

On Sunday June 9 I worked on my project the whole day with my partner. So the only real work (all the other work is too much fun to consider work) that I have to do is present in front of the class a topic that I picked before we left for France. My project was on 'Baron' Haussmann, the city planner who made Paris the city that everybody loves today. I won't talk about him here but if you ask me (and you really should since it really is very interesting) I will talk your ear off. I did with my project partner take a baguette break (which I am also addicted to them. But we set right back to work. We took a dinner break around 8 (that's typical French dinner time) where I proceed to look like an idiot in front of French guys by boiling water for about twenty minutes because I don't understand how to work their stoves so it took me forever to make dinner. The day was very uneventful except academically. I hope your weekend was exciting and not rainy like mine was.

Jusqu'à demain Bisous Janice

Cité de la musique, outside

Cité de la musique, inside