Daily life in Paris

Hey everybody,
So not a whole lot going on here, during the week I just spend my time running around going to classes, or trying to find the stuff I need to read or watch for my classes, as well as firming up travel plans and doing the necessary booking. I’m also still without internet at my house, ahhhhhh, so I waste lots of time struggling with various WiFi networks and trying to get pictures and such slowly uploaded, sigh. I’m even currently without iTunes, as I accidently deleted Quicktime and the internet connections are all to slow to let me download it again…how will I survive!? Hehe, but in general, I’m still loving it here in Paris. Monday, I had my cinema class again, which was kind of a joke-it turns out a lot of people couldn’t access the reading online, and since the movie wasn’t at the library most of us (myself included) weren’t able to watch it before class. So, in class we watched extracts from the movie we were supposed to have watched, and he handed out copies of the article we were supposed to have read (which I did, yay me). The article was also in English, as he couldn’t find it in french, so it took FOREVER for everyone to read it in class, so I basically just sat there…so worthless. But oh well, hopefully it will be better next week, as the movie is definitely at the library, now I just have to find the reading…So difficult. I met up with Kristin for lunch on Monday, as we had gone the whole weekend without seeing each other (gasp!), and we hung out again that night at our secret bar, which ended up being really fun. We have befriended two of the bartenders that work there, Dan and Tony, who are two really nice french guys that enjoy talking to us and letting us in on practical jokes and such. We even got some free drinks, yes! And, they look out for us, saving us from creepy old men that try to hit on the Americans…We met this really cool guy from New York, who was staying in Paris for a week before making his way around Europe and eventually to Morocco, where he wants to teach English and live for a while. He was carrying a guitar with him, and it turns out he is also into music, and is taking recording from the places he visits and such. Really cool guy, he even taught in Brazil for several months, and is just traveling around learning new languages at each place he goes. Tuesday I had my literature class again, which was good, I really like it, and yesterday I had my art history class, including the Louvre visit where we looked at various sculptures. Again, it was really interesting, and the professor is amazing, really funny and adorable, and really encourages participation, I love that class. Last night, I spent forever messing around on the internet trying to get travel stuff figured out, and finally succeeded at around 1am. I am officially going to Berlin, yay!!!, so far with two of my friends from Sweet Briar, maybe more eventually. I also booked hostels for Pisa/Florence for the weekend after next, and talked to Ryan-who is hopefully coming to Paris to visit me oct.31-nov.2-ish, yayyy. I’m so excited to see him, I hope everything works out. So yeah, today I have my atelier class, and I’m going to meet with my friend Olivia to book hostels for Berlin after class, and then hopefully go see the movie I need to see for class Monday, ack. So yeah, busy day, and I want to go out on the town tonight, since no class tomorrow (yesss). Alrighty then, off I go, much love, sorry the post is kind of boring but oh well,
Brit