September 19, 2012

I give up on this whole trying to catch up thing. It sucks and I'll get around to it eventually. It's easier to just talk about my day. So... today... I got up at about 7 and thought I was going to die. I didn't go to bed last night until about 3 o'clock because I was trying to write in here but I have the attention span of a gnat and end up on a million different websites not getting anything done. But back to what I was talking about... So I got up at 7 a.m. to go running with one of my roommates and we went about 2 miles to the Eiffel Tower and back to the hotel. But my feet are so sore they feel like they're going to fall off of my legs right now. It's awful but I'm trudging through. By complaining every second. So after I went running in the freezing I got all ready and went up and had devotional in the professor's room. The first thing we did this morning was the Opera House. It was such a beautiful building, especially the grand staircase. It was so pretty with the ceiling above it all painted magnificently and all of the intricate woodwork and stone statues that were there. The actual opera area was cool too because it was just so big. After that we hurried over to the L'Ongerie and saw all of the Monet Nympheas paintings and some more impressionist paintings. These impressionists are all insanely obsessed with naked women... I'm getting a little sick of seeing a naked woman every other painting. I'm getting so museumed out. It's insane how much art I've seen in the past 2 days. I feel like it's all just starting to mesh together in my head and we haven't even seen the Louvre yet. I wish I knew more about art so that I could appreciate what I was seeing more, but I'm so uneducated about the art that I can't fully appreciate what I'm even seeing. It is really cool, though seeing all of this art since they are some of the most  famous paintings and sculptures in the entire world. But I fell in love in Paris. I fell in love with a little gelato stand that was in the gardens outside of L'Ongerie. I got a little bowl of Amaretto and raspberry gelato and I almost passed out I was so happy. It was just creamy and satisfying and perfect in every way. But enough of that... After we did that we went over into a few shops which was really fun. We went over to Zara, which wasn't too expensive, and looked around. I didn't get anything since I'm poor, but it was fun to just walk around. Then we went over to the Galleries Lafayette and just browsed the ridiculously expensive clothes and shoes and accessories. Some of those dresses in there were over 2000 euros!! That's so much freakin money!! One day... just kidding. I could never spend 3000 dollars on a dress. I really liked what we did after that, though, which was going to the Notre Dame. We couldn't go up because for some reason it was closed so we walked around the Latin Quarter and saw all the cute little shops and went into the Shakespeare and Co. bookshop and looked around. It was so cute!! There were so many books, though, it was blowing my mind. By that time it was about 7 and we were so ridiculously tired that we went back by our hotel and got a little bowl of pasta and walked back. My feet are so tired and my body is so tired that I just need to sleep for hours and get a hard core massage.