For the 3 (±6) people who actually read this blog consistently (I do believe it's possible that -3 people can read this blog consistently; I just haven't worked out the details as to how), this is must be a long awaited update...

I apologize for not writing over the past week. I blame it on a combination of the work we have to do (which is only increasing) and the fact that I'd rather sleep than write in my blog when I'm really sleepy. There's also the fact that I haven't really done anything interesting (in my opinion anyways) recently).

Let's see...after class on Thursday me and some people (Anna, Ananya, et Daniel) visited Versailles. We got into the château for free, and honestly, going inside would not have been worth whatever it cost. Sure, it was pretty cool seeing the ornate decorations and stuff, but it was packed with tourists, which made it hard to enjoy. Here's a picture taken in the hall of mirrors:

The hall of mirrors was quite disappointing as we had expected there to be far more mirrors there

The best part of the visit was our adventure in the gardens (which were gratuite by the way; on a random note, I apologize for my mélange of anglais et French; I'm not really doing it on purpose and I'm far too lazy to change it). The plants were quite beautiful in the sun. Random story, we were just chillin', near a fountain in a pond, when all of a sudden, Daniel yelled because he spied the downpour from a sudden cloudburst headed our way. Unfortunately, since my parapluie broke the day I bought it, I had to build a barrier from the rain using my friends umbrellas. As I mentioned before, it was a more or less sunny day before the 3 minute rain, so it was still sunny while we were taking shelter. Here's a picture of the weird weather:

This weather was absurd

Once it cleared up, we decided to head over toward a small lake/large pond in the gardens which contained rowboats. We wanted to go on a boat. And we did. And it was awesome. There's really no other way to describe it. According to the homme who reluctantly loaned us the boat (according to him it was too windy to go out on the water and he didn't want to have to save us if/when we flipped over), I was a good rameur (rower) since I managed to get us back to the dock without too much damage. Here's a picture of us on the boat:

An 11 euro boat ride for 4? Yes please!

The next day, we visited le Louvre to complete some sort of treasure hunt for our class. We didn't encounter a significant amount of tourists since les tableaux weren't near the more mainstream pieces of art (La Jaconde, pour exemple). This was pretty tiring since we had to walk a lot, but we got to see some pretty cool stuff. Like this:

Le singe antiquaire, de Chardin. He was quite fond of monkeys dressed up in cute little outfits. We definitely have similar tastes...

Apart from that, I didn't really do anything this weekend (lots of work). Sunday I went to go watch the finals of Roland Garros on a giant screen on Court 1. It wasn't terrible, in spite of the rain (and my lack of rain jacket and parapluie). I waited out the first rain delay in my seat because it wasn't raining too badly and I didn't want the seat to get too wet. But then I left after Nadal was up in the 3rd set 2-1. I suppose that's good because I didn't have to watch Djokovic finish his run of 8 straight games. I wish I could have watched the match from within Philippe-Chatrier, but I'm not exactly rollin' in the dough these days, so I had to settle for paying money to watch it on a giant screen (which I technically could have done for free but I actually got a seat and whatever so it was totally worth it).

Today we got to visit some sort of insane asylum/hospital and an orphanage (well the grounds of these places). It was...something. We did visit this one jardin which had really awesome plants (and sculptures). There was also a zoo there, but it would have cost us 8 euro each so we didn't go, which is really sad because I love animals.

I can't really think of anything interesting to say here right now. What is kind of scary, though, is the fact that I'm over halfway done right now. I hate thinking about that. I've been here for over 3 weeks, and I'll be home in less than 3 weeks. Honestly, I have no desire to return to the EL (no offense). I mean, I'm in Paris. And in all honestly, I'm never going to be able to have another experience like this the rest of my life. Sure, I can visit the city (if I ever end up rollin' in the dough), but unless I somehow get a job here, I'm never going to live here again. I'm actually strongly considering double majoring in Chemistry and French (dropping my philosophy minor because, let's get serious, that wasn't for real) and then maybe trying to get an internship here one summer because that would be even more awesome than this.

Well, I got nothing else to say now...(I've far too sad at the moment to write anymore)

Au revoir tout le monde!