My Eiffel Tower post. Yesterday was the day that I got to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful sight. We first had class in one of the grassy places on the side closest to the military school. And then we got in line to fulfill many of our groups lifelong dreams The wait was quite short only about an hour to not only get our ticket, which was cheaper since we were jeunes (youth). We took the elevators up to the first platform and looked around. The railing was made of wood covered in the special Eiffel Tower brown, which every seven years there is an entirely new coat of paint on it. When I first step off the elevator I expected to be very scared because we are so high up, but I wasn't. It did take me a little bit to get use to but I wasn't scary.
On the second and the last platform I was completely fine. I remember being terrified of the Sears Tower in Chicago, but this didn't seem so high. Now I realize that I keep talking about how I wasn't scared and that it didn't feel so high but it was quite unusual for that to be the case. Since it is almost 900 feet at the top platform. But my professor was talking to me the next day and saying that either I just talk to a place or a thing real fast and without much fuss that I acclimate well to an environment or that since there are no other tall buildings around the height if the tower was a bit skewed for me. I think it is a little bit of both. I have diffidently gotten better at adapting to my environment since I went to college, and I have had no real culture shock since I got here. I have had some things throw me off or I think is really strange up all and all the shock has been minimal.
But any-who back up at the top of the Eiffel Tower it was beautiful I went up around sundown so I got to see the sunset well I was on the Eiffel Tower. It was very beautiful. Now I was told that you would not be able to feel the tower sway the four or so inches that it does, however I did. I don't think I could feel the whole four inches but I did feel it move. But it didn't scare me I just kinda made me feel like the tower was a living thing. Like it could feel the specialness and the buzz if happiness that everybody up there was feeling.
I loved being up there but it felt different than I expected.
Every hour on the hour after sun down the lights on the Eiffel Tower go off for five minutes. I was in the elevator the first time they went off and the group that I was in stuck around and went to the right side of the bank of the Seine to watch the lights go off at eleven. It was a bit magical.
Jusqu'à demain
Bisous- Janice
The view of the gardens
from the first platform
The same view from the top.
The sun setting from
the Eiffel Tower
All lite up
Do you see the sparkle?
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