It's been a nice week and a half so far in Paris! I've been hanging out mainly with the group of five students who were in my last post. We saw the Sacre Coeur on Montmartre ...
... checked out the front of the Moulin Rouge ...
Near our school there is an amazing bakery --
with amazing "Macarons" (different from macaroons) --
mmmmmmmm..... (this is Emily and Cadence enjoying the baked goodness).
We visited the Eiffel Tower, the quintessential tourist experience!
They have these funny transparent garbage bags now. It's a bit unsettling.
We saw the Arc de Triomphe ...
(Curtis and Emily taking pictures ...)
On the weekend we enjoyed some gelato before entering the big cemetery, Pere Lachaise.
It's very pretty!
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On Oscar Wilde's grave there are all sorts of graffiti and kisses of lipstick ...
On Saturday night Paris was having its annual "Fete de la Musique," where the whole city is filled with musicians, official and unofficial. Here is a capoeira troop --
-- in Notre Dame there was organ music --
-- the whole street was like a carnival, filled with people!
(The results of much celebration.)
These were Vietnamese people I believe, and they were singing Karaoke-style French Samba.
We took a rest in front of Napoleon's tomb afterward. :)
On Sunday I went to the Louvre.
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There was contemporary art installed amongst the Classical galleries. It was interesting!
I also ran across a ceiling of the palace painted by Georges Braque. Who knew there was so much 20th and 21st century art in the Palace of the Academy??
Class is going well. I am looking forward to getting home, though...
A Bientot!
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