It has been too long since I have written here. An incredible amount of things have been going on the past two weeks and doing them compared to telling about the things I already did just seemed like backtracking. But, alas, I uploaded more photographs of Luxembourg garden that I wanted to show.
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Panoramic of Luxembourg
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| Perfectly hedged |
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| Luxembourg Palace |
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Main fountain with the boats! Brilliant idea
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Monday the 30th of August was my first day of school. It went very well and I was very excited to learn that for almost all of classes that half the time we will be on excursions outside of the classroom usually at the actual places that we are studying. For architecture, each week I have to sketch something that is related to the time period or subject that we are learning about that week. Thus far I have sketched some parts of the archeological crypt literally under Notre Dame. Tomorrow I am going to go to St. Chapelle to draw the structure. But the first week of classes went well and then thursday Alex and I went to explore Notre Dame and went inside. It has incredible architecture and very intricate sculpture. We didn't climb to the top that day but will soon. After wondering about the cathedral we went down into the archeological crypt directly below Notre Dame. It had stone walls and baths that dated back to the Roman time in BC. It is only partially open because archeologists are still excavating the site today.
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| BC stairwell |
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| gargoyle/gutter |
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Notre Dame
Friday, the 3rd, alex and I went to Eurodisney! It was awesome. It had a lot of the attractions that disneyland has and some from Disneyworld as well. I went on tower of terror, space mountain, Alice's curious labyrinth, rock and rollercoaster with aerosmith or something of that nature, (not that fun) starwars ride, and a "mountainous" ride that was great. Mickey spoke in french! Ha it was hilarious. Bonjour tout le monde! ---in the Mickey mouse tone. I didn't get any of the Disney characters signatures this time because I rarely saw any. The ones I did see I hardly recognized because they were all of the new disney characters. But it was a really good time. |
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| Mickey and Mini Mouse |
Saturday was my study abroad programs "mystery tour excursion" where we had no idea where we were going and it ended up being a great place. They took us to the Normandy region into Deauville which is on the western coast of France and the American Film festival also happened to be going on there. So there was a lot to do and I ended up eating a famous Normandy crepe with some of their famous cider at a cafe, hung out on the beach and met the Atlantic ocean for my first time (very nice, kinda cold). I did end up seeing a few famous people that I didn't know were that famous at the time like David Chase, creator of The Sopranos, Terry Gilliam, writer of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, screenplay of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and others. Deauville was a really cool place that I want to go to again.
Sunday I went to the Cluny museum and saw some medieval pieces of art and structures. I was pretty bummed to find out that the Cluny baths were closed. But I'll be back.
I need more time to talk about Versailles and to add more pictures (blogger is pretty slow in uploading) so I will be back soon.
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