So I discovered the wonderful thing that is the George Pompidou Centre. Free wifi AND I get to plug in my computer! Unfortunately, I can only get an hour and a half of wifi access every time I go there.
Classes have been keeping me busy. We went to Saint Germain and Notre Dame for art history, and the national opera house and the picasso museum on our own. I did a little research and found a Salvador Dali exhibit that's happening in the city, which is really cool, but it also costs ten euros to get in. He's my favorite artist, so I'm saving my money to go.
This weekend was fun. My host family left for a long weekend in the countryside, so last night I invited Ben and Jeana over to make dinner and hang out. We made salad, burritos, and crepes, but we ended up skipping the salad since we stuffed ourselves with burritos. The crepes turned out different than we hoped they would, but they were still good. I bought a present for all of us, too-sparkling apple cider! Overall, it was a good time, and I hope to do it again when my host fam goes to the countryside next weekend. Ben and Jeana also got to meet the other students that I'm living with, so that was nice.
The other day, Jeana, Justin, and I were walking through Forum des Halles to go to the FNAC when a woman with her two kids comes up to us and asks where the movie theatre is. I tell her, and she asks us where we're from. We tell her we're American students, and she insists that we each ask her kids questions in French. No joke, we couldn't leave until we each asked her kids a question. I'm sure she had good intentions, but it was kind of weird.
I saw Un Jour Sur Terre (A Day on the Earth? Something like that...) the other weekend, and I enjoyed it a lot. I didn't enjoy paying 5 euros to see it, though.
I'm going to wrap this up so I can go back to the apartment and cook dinner.
~Sarah, who wants her dinner!
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