The Weekend I Live for the Weekend

In my humble opinion, I’d say this weekend was a success. Had P.E Saturday morning. I’m throwing shot put which is kind of funny. Then me, Victor, and Gabriel (the one’s in the pictures from a little while ago) went to Gabriel’s apartment (close to the Eiffel Tower) and made lunch. Gabriel got sick, so then Victor and I headed out into the Latin Quarter to hang out. We visited the Pantheon, where all the old, famous Frenchmen are buried. It was beautiful, but kind of a letdown inside. I mean, you can only look at Voltaire’s grave for so long before it becomes a little boring. Good thing I got in for free because I’m “under 18.” Then we walked through the Luxembourg Gardens, which are beautiful, and even more so with the falling leaves. Basically we walked a lot. We looked in a bunch of stores (books, cds, clothes) and I actually bought some clothes! I found a store where not everything in the display was over 100 Euros, so I went in and bought a 2 track jackets (1 for 7 euros…ridiculous! And the other for 20) so I’m pretty content with my first clothing purchases in Paris. Basically we walked a lot, but it was really fun. It was great to talk to him, as he is extremely nice, and I can feel my French improving daily.

I figured since this was my first Sunday since I arrived that I was in Paris, I would try to go to church, so I went to the American Church of Paris. It was in a really pretty building, and there were lots of people there. It felt weird having so many people speak English around me. The Pastor-ess kind of annoyed me. She pretty much spoke to us like we were a group of 4 year olds at story time, so it was a little hard for me to get into the message, as in I can’t even really recall what it was about, except I do remember her talking about some Anime movie she watched with her daughter. But we had communion so that was good. Not sure if I’ll be going back, wasn’t exactly the greatest experience I’ve had at a church, but it was still good to go. I went back home for lunch (wasn’t planning on it as I was pretty far away but then my host dad called), then went back out again to visit the Picasso Museum. Most of the museums are free on the first Sunday of the month, so that’s why I went. I was lucky and missed the line, and walked around there for a while. Some things I noticed: Picasso really liked guitars, like really liked them. All his naked pictures look the same (not naked pictures of him, like the one’s he drew, you get the point). His cubism is really cool (although sometimes I’d stand in front of a picture, read the title, and spend the next 5 minutes trying to figure out what the crap was happening without success). And Museums aren’t my favorite thing ever (I’d much rather walk around the streets and take pictures). Then I went to this awesome Café that’s set up like a living room, had myself a glass of really good wine, and read and worked on my SPU essay for 2 hours. It was amazing. I then walked around some more, and was basically pretty content with life. I still am basically content with life because I don’t have school till 2 tomorrow (because it’s Yom Kippur and I have 2 Jewish teachers) and because I got invited to a Yom Kippur party tomorrow night (lots of food). So I’ll be getting back to you about that. Thanks for reading friends.

Brent

P.S. The pictures are from today (Sunday) because I used Victor’s camera yesterday and don’t have the pictures yet