Here's the Video of the Day, a clever remix that I happen to really like :D of course I chose the Gaara version, cuz I'm a geeky fangirl like that, but hey.
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20.6.07
France etc.
Wow. It certainly has been awhile. I have recently returned from my overseas trip. It was fantastic.
We started in Paris, after a very long flight. Um. We crashed at a hotel. The next day we began our tourist-regime, taking a bus tour all around the city. We zoomed past every possible monument, L'Arc du Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, La Place de la Concorde. After that we drove to Versailles. It was completely amazing. These people spared no expense in their palace! I got really tongue tied trying to buy lunch though! We walked around inside Notre Dame, and later Montmartre. That evening, we decided to ditch sleep and go on a boat tour and go up the eiffel tower. The boat tour took us down the Seine and around l'isle de la cite. There were these headset things that supposedly had a tour on them in your language if you press the right button, but mine only spoke german. So I sat back and enjoyed the scenery. We rode the metro everywhere. It was so hot and stuffy. I even missed it once when it was too crowded to get on! Anyway, after the boat ride, we walked across the street to the Eiffel Tower. The line took F-O-R-E-V-E-R!! It was about midnight by the time we got into the elevators. But it was worth it. The view was spectacular. The tower was all lit up from the inside and every now and then all these lights would flash on and off like crazy! It must have sparkled from far off. By the time we made it back down to the bottom, it was almost 2 am. We rode the metro (now almost empty) back to the hotel. The only problem -- by the time we got off the train, the metro was closed and we couldn't get out. We had to climb over the turnstiles and squeeze through these tiny gates!! A couple of people were too big and had to find an alternative solution.
The next day, we saw the Louvre. Our group (me, Tessa, Leslie, Beatrice) scurried around and saw all the famous stuff first (La Joconde, Winged Victory, Venus di Milo) before roming off on our own. I was the unnofficial leader, and probably not the most capable one for the job. I was quickly disoriented and completlely lost. I would be looking for Middle Eastern and Asian art and find myself instead, in the Mideival (can't spell..) Louvre. Cool, but not quite close to our meeting point! That afternoon we got on the TGV to Nice. It was a long train ride.
Okay. More about Nice later.
I've been going to band (almost) faithfully. I have to play trumpet in intermediate band, and that's embarassing. Yes. Very embarassing. In the advanced band I play percussion and that is more in my comfort zone. No problem. Only its hot. But we play okay music. I'm getting boring arent I?
French Word of the Day- Louer, meaning to rent. I saw this all over the place in Paris and Nice. A Louer! A louer! I guess that sort of means 'For Rent'
Movie of the Day: Waitress, which I saw at the Lyric last night. Very good movie.
Okay, I'm out of time!! More later, if the mom-lady allows!
We started in Paris, after a very long flight. Um. We crashed at a hotel. The next day we began our tourist-regime, taking a bus tour all around the city. We zoomed past every possible monument, L'Arc du Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, La Place de la Concorde. After that we drove to Versailles. It was completely amazing. These people spared no expense in their palace! I got really tongue tied trying to buy lunch though! We walked around inside Notre Dame, and later Montmartre. That evening, we decided to ditch sleep and go on a boat tour and go up the eiffel tower. The boat tour took us down the Seine and around l'isle de la cite. There were these headset things that supposedly had a tour on them in your language if you press the right button, but mine only spoke german. So I sat back and enjoyed the scenery. We rode the metro everywhere. It was so hot and stuffy. I even missed it once when it was too crowded to get on! Anyway, after the boat ride, we walked across the street to the Eiffel Tower. The line took F-O-R-E-V-E-R!! It was about midnight by the time we got into the elevators. But it was worth it. The view was spectacular. The tower was all lit up from the inside and every now and then all these lights would flash on and off like crazy! It must have sparkled from far off. By the time we made it back down to the bottom, it was almost 2 am. We rode the metro (now almost empty) back to the hotel. The only problem -- by the time we got off the train, the metro was closed and we couldn't get out. We had to climb over the turnstiles and squeeze through these tiny gates!! A couple of people were too big and had to find an alternative solution.
The next day, we saw the Louvre. Our group (me, Tessa, Leslie, Beatrice) scurried around and saw all the famous stuff first (La Joconde, Winged Victory, Venus di Milo) before roming off on our own. I was the unnofficial leader, and probably not the most capable one for the job. I was quickly disoriented and completlely lost. I would be looking for Middle Eastern and Asian art and find myself instead, in the Mideival (can't spell..) Louvre. Cool, but not quite close to our meeting point! That afternoon we got on the TGV to Nice. It was a long train ride.
Okay. More about Nice later.
I've been going to band (almost) faithfully. I have to play trumpet in intermediate band, and that's embarassing. Yes. Very embarassing. In the advanced band I play percussion and that is more in my comfort zone. No problem. Only its hot. But we play okay music. I'm getting boring arent I?
French Word of the Day- Louer, meaning to rent. I saw this all over the place in Paris and Nice. A Louer! A louer! I guess that sort of means 'For Rent'
Movie of the Day: Waitress, which I saw at the Lyric last night. Very good movie.
Okay, I'm out of time!! More later, if the mom-lady allows!
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