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argh.
i wrote a really long entry earlier about my morning, cause it was wierd, but apparently it didnt post. again. so now i realized that you can do lj in english too, even from the french site, so hopefully that will make things simpler.
the gist of my earler entry: i was gonna go to ile de citè today. couldnt sleep. homesick for my chair/saltines/skin care regimen, angry about how my apartment doesnt have a tea kettle or pillows. so when the sun came up i pulled my sleepy faced self outside for pain du chocolat, espresso, and british papers, passed a lovely morning at an outside patisserie table. went to the gare montparnasse, spent ten minutes trying very unsucessfully to purchase a metro card from a machine (a book of ten costs 10.70 euro, the machines dont accept cash or credit cards, it took me a long time to figure that out cause my transaction kept getting cancelled, narrowly escaped being EATEN by a bunch of GLARING FRENCH PEOPLE made late for their rer connections by my stupidity, went to the galleries lafayette in the montparnasse mall to find an american style towel cause i hate the stupid dingy french one they left me in the apartment, came back home feeling especially stupid, rik called, went to meet him for cafè lunch, ate alot of cheese and chocolate, discovered a short cut home through edgar quinet, decided i really like montparnasse. now i need a phone card so i can call my parents. and sleep a bit.
i did buy a towel and dove soap. i was afraid i'd look silly buying dove soap, dove soap being in my opinion the essence of the american aesthetic, but when i got to the checkout line i realized that everyone else there was buying the same dove soap. josh, if you read this youre gonna think i like saying the phrase dove soap alot, and you would be right.
i'm reading a prayer for owen meany. i like it, but i'm not sure if i'll still like it two hundred pages from now. i'm up to page two hundred. dirty insomniac.
July 22 2005, 23:34:42 UTC 6 years ago
My point is I don't have one...but I wish you the best time ever!! If you need any advice and I'm not sure what I could give you since I was dumb and also I lived by the Bastille, i'd love to help. Do as much as you can and don't be deterred by glaring French people. they probably love you secretly.
oh and trust me, you will love it 200 pages later!!
July 23 2005, 08:17:25 UTC 6 years ago
i havent seen kill bill yet, but i decided that i will becaue my hosts have the dvd and when i met them they suggested that i should make friends and invite them over to watch dvds. so i might do that. i am alone in the apartment, and i wish you were here too! i brought along your address to send you a postcard, but then i remembered you're leaving very soon and there wont be time to send you a postcard...
i've been wandering around my neighborhood trying to look french and being afraid of the metro card kiosks.
also, alex told me she had a friend who was going to be here, but alex is really hard to get in touch with. do you have any idea who that might be and where i could find them? in my experience you and alexandra have cool friends. she said he was here to play guitar. she sounded cryptic.
right now i'm waiting for the sun to come out so i can go look at stained glass. its really cold here, but everyone keeps saying that its hot.
i wish i knew how to whistle!
July 24 2005, 19:34:19 UTC 6 years ago
I'm looking over my journal from France and I was pretty messed up. I had pink eye and I often would skip meals because I couldn't speak right or I'd give my money to a homeless girl my age with an "i'm hungry" sign. It's really hard to make friends, especially when you don't speak French. I didn't make friends my age until I was in Sable de Lonne with my host's neighbor's granddaughter and then I went to parties and was normal, etc.
I was staying near the Place de Vosges. It's gorgeous there and a good place to eat lunch. You can get really good falafels near their in the Jewish section of the mareilles. I can't spell anything. There's lots of cute shops around their too and I think the Musee Picasso i close-ish.
Go to a Monoprix and buy some of those recycled paper journals. How come you've been updating so much? Are you using an internet cafe or is there a computer in your apartment? cause that can get expensive.
Dalloyau has realllly good macarroons. There's one off rue st. michel when walking south toward the jardin Luxembourg. It's on the right on a corner. It's expensive but sooo good and pretty. And of course you should go to Bertillion. I liked white chocolate icecream. and cassis sorbet. if you walk there, you won't feel so bad about eatting icecream every day. you can pick up a "pariscope" at a newspaper stand. they tell you what's happening.
have fun!!! i'll ask alexandra about her friend. i don't know who she's talking about.
whistling takes practice
July 25 2005, 10:03:31 UTC 6 years ago
i think i stayed in that neighborhood last time i was here, right around the place des vosges. ive been eating alot of pain du chocolat and fruit, but i keep falling asleep to early to eat dinner. yesterday i went to jardin luxembourg, and bought seventeen euros worth of fancy chocolates, but ill post about that later.
ive been posting so much cause i hate thinking in french. also the rain.
im definately going to berthillon sooon. its right near notre dame right? on the other little island?