Somewhat late today [personal resolution solidifying as I type], but still taking the time to make ye olde Nutella sandwich for breakfast, we discussed Casanova and, better, Montesquieu today, who expressed very different takes on Parisian society, but today's new word comes from Heloise, and it is 'pote,' which means more so 'pal' but it was as close as she could get to 'homie.' I stuck around for a while afterwards, figuring out Things, ate lunch back at the apartment because I'd just gotten ham and lemon yoghurt [GOOD], then journeyed over to an old haunt, the Buttes Chaumont, a parc in a lower-income, more hilly area in the north of Paris that is nonetheless fantastic for its apparently once having been a quarry but is now:
very postcard-y, but artificial, mind you
there was a film shoot going on:
Like that, fun to walk around. After a recuperative rest, I started my reading for tomorrow's class, got a glace italienne [like creamy soft serve], and just hung out, really, looking at the buildings all around, Sacre Coeur visible in the distance from certain angles, watching French teenagers, French families playing ball, pushing strollers, feeding ducks, joggers huffing up hills, foreigners with backpackers similarly absorbing everything. My relative lack of initiation earlier was due, forgot to mention, to the fact that it absolutely poured until the early afternoon and I didn't feel up for a museum day. Right. And then I walked on to Basin de la Villette:
And hung out, later took the metro:
Had dinner, and more notably went to see X-Men, which, though lacking in artistic or conceptual merit, was still a good watch :)
r u still alive?
ReplyDeleteHave u seen the paris air show?
ReplyDeleteNO, I would have gone, I had no idea it was going on, awwwwwww :_(
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