“You’re taking a vow of silence because of Friedrich Nietzche?”

So ya…school started again today. Hip hip hooray. That, mind you was said with sarcasm. Although, it wasn’t that awful, as I got out an hour early because the History class I joined before break was taking a test, so I didn’t have to go. Chaching. I’m basically just trying to relax and have fun with the time I have left. Not to say I’m going to start doing nothing in school, but I’m no longer going to spend time needlessly worrying about school. After all, school is not exactly the reason I’m here, so it shouldn’t exactly be the thing I spend my time creating ulcers in my stomach about. But enough about school…

The end of my vacation was great, well not ending my vacation, but the latter part…I think you get the picture. Let’s see, saw The Holiday with another exchange student Wednesday which was good but needed more Jack Black. Thursday…I got my haircut. I finally got around to going on the Bateux Mouches (the boat tours on the Seine) Friday when the people who I hung out last week came up from Bourges in central France. The boat tour was pretty good and informative, but semi-ridiculously cold sitting on top of the boat. The day was somewhat random, as we had to go meet an exchange student (Jim) who didn’t ride up with the other kids at a train station where he had been walking around for a couple hours as he forgot his cell phone charger and had to buy a new one so he could call us. Good work Jim. We then proceeded to eat, according to each individual’s taste requirement, Panini, Croque Monsieur, or a cold Hotdog, but the cold hotdog didn’t exactly get finished. Then we went on a somewhat random walk around Paris, as I didn’t have a map, but nonetheless it was a success. Then, me, Jim, and his friend Jon who had just come in from the States went and got some French onion soup on Montmartre at Jim’s bequest, well actually I just mooched some, but that’s besides the point. Anyways, Friday=Good.

Saturday=Also good. I went to this exposition on the history of Paris, then met up with an awesome guy named Taro from my church to see Little Miss Sunshine, which although it was the second time for me, was equally amazing as the first viewing. Then we got some Falafel in the Jewish Quarter, and to preempt questions by those who were with me last time in the Jewish Quarter, no, I didn’t get asked if I was Jewish this time. Maybe because it was the Sabbath and I was in a restaurant and not at temple. Who knows?

Yesterday I went to the Cluny Museum (The Museum for the Middle Ages) because it was the first Sunday of the month, and the museums are free. It is pretty massive, with an inordinate amount of stuff to look at, so much so that I somewhat got bored and tired by the end, but had to go anyways to get to home group, which was amazing, as usual. It’s actually called table group so I’m just going to call it that. But, table group was great, it kind of just turned into me and the two other guys that were there (Justin and Bjorn) just having a discussion about a lot of stuff while Jen (Justin’s wife) took care of the baby. I drank a lot of Orangina. Maybe too much. But, there is never too much Orangina.

Wow I wrote a lot more then I wanted to. Thanks for reading this far. You are a trooper.

I have 6 weeks of school till my first Bus Trip in France/Spain, which I’m uber excited about. Let’s just hope this 6 weeks is a wee bit less eventful then the last 7 I had at school.

Bisous,

Brent