Tuesday, December 21, 2010
DONE
Well, I am done. I am comfortably sitting on my couch at home watching Guy Fieri and Matthew McConaughey cook, lunch in hand. It's kind of weird being back in the States but it's a good feeling. Saturday I flew back, and just in time. A lot of people are stuck in Europe due to a big snow storm over there, thank God for my fairly uncomplicated return. So during my last week in Paris I went to a few more places I had to see like Musee Rodin and Rue Mouffetard, and had a Chrismukkah party with some friends. We also went to this fondue restaurant where they serve you wine in baby bottles, amazing haha. It was tough saying goodbye to my new friends and the beautiful city though. I guess I don't really know what else to say, it's just hard to believe it went by so fast. I can't wait for my next voyage to Europe!
Monday, December 13, 2010
Check, check, check!
I only have one week left, how bizzare! At least I am almost done with my checklist of things to see and do.Last week was really focused on final presentations and exams. Tuesday I had a wine class presentation on my region of Burgundy, and my part was all about biodynamic wine. I think that went alright. Wednesday I had an exam in business class, that was good, and a presentation in french class (not so good). Thursday I had this dinner cruise on the Seine river with CEA. It was so beautiful and the food, ohhh la la. Friday was my haute couture final and then that night I had a phone interview for an internship I want. So far so good ,they want to do another on site interview so fingers croseed. Saturday was craaazy, I was out and about in Paris for 7 hours straight. I went to the Grand Palais and saw this Bvlgari jewelry exhibit, then to Mariage Freres a famous tea place, then Luxembourg gardens, and the Pantheon. I also had a buche de noel (christmas yule log cake) finally!
Sorry this is so short but I'm a busy little bee. A bientot!
Monday, December 6, 2010
HOLEY MOLEY
Wow I forgot to write posts, sorry guys. Alright so let me think back...
So to start, CEA hosted two events on November 23rd, a career workshop and parisian appetizers. The career workshop was interesting because I like taking advantage of whatever I can in that regards. The appetizers weren't that great because I don't like funky stuff but I at least tried.
Thanksgiving was a success. I cooked the turkey breasts and bought the can of jellied cranberries, but all the food was delicious. There were about 12 people in our apartment and we played a few games and drank a few bottles of wine. I'm glad I was able to Skype my family for awhile. We had a french friend here as well so he was able to experience a great American holiday. Oh and you will not believe this...so our power went out 30 minutes before people were supposed to show up. I was standing there in the dark like really, really this is going to happen right now. We stood outside with our little candle waiting for some frenchie to walk by and help us out. Sooner or later some random neighbor figured out that it was when we turned our oven on. So for the next week we were complaining to our poor housing coordinator that we needed a new oven. When she came to check it out for herself nothing was wrong, of course.
Earlier that day I went to Le Musee de Arts Decoratifs which houses the Musee de la Mode et du Textile (fashion museum). I thought that was really cool but the exhibit was focused more on the lesser known designers of the 90s.
The next day I had to go to this wine exhibition for my oenology class. We had to ask these vineyard owners questions in french for our projects, and well I was the one in my group with the highest french level. I had such a difficult time trying to understand what they were saying and my part of the presentation was about biodynamic wine, which there were no producers of at that specific exhibition. I was getting really tired but when someone else would go up to them and ask if they spoke english they would either ignore them or say no. One guy even said no to us but when I started speaking in french he got bored or something and started talking back to us in french. Whatever, to quote my haute couture teacher JPC "we are cruel, we are french". I did like the fact that we got professional wine tasting glasses free as a souvenir.
By the way this is off subject but I just thought I would share some more wonderful quotes from JPC.
-you could speak about men, perhaps that you know something about
-love your enemy
-paf!
-khak khak (insert waving hand gesture here)
-remember living
-now you dance with your hips, sex.
-she's not a worker, she's a Marlene Dietrich
-...and once again the pope wrote a letter
-you are perfect (to me :) haha)
-you don't frequent the sexy shops?
-you must find a man with a chevaliere (to me because I mentioned I've seen many men wearing this certain ring)
The next day was BLACK SATURDAY!! I went to the Champs-Elysees Christmas markets with a few friends. I love all the little knick knacks and food stands they had. It was a very nice way to spend the afternoon. I would've liked to taken a ride on the big ferris wheel but whoah was that overpriced. I think it was the largest "moving" one in the world.
The next week flew by so fast, and again it was Thursday. I went to the wall of love in Montmartre, Place du Tertre (artist square), and the Musee de Montmartre in my district. I am really starting to like where I'm living. I wish I would've explored it more in detail when it was warmer haha. Then that night I went to the circus. No, it was not fun. The whole thing was based upon invetro and cloning, some weird crap like that. The stunts weren't even that great. I don't know, I'm just glad I won those tickets where I wasted a few hours of my life away.
On Friday I went on an haute couture excursion to the area of Saint Germain des Pres, where we walked around looking at some fashionable stores and cafes. Saturday was saved for homework and being lazy mostly but then I went to a park called Buttes Chaumont where I saw a pretty waterfall, lots of children sledding, and of course dogs running around off their leashes. Then I traveled over to Notre Dame to see the big Christmas tree in front of it.
On Sunday I went to the Montparnasse cemetary and saw some beautiful graves along with the Montparnasse tower. Nearby I stopped at Saint Sulpice church, where that fountain can be seen in the death scene of the movie The Da Vinci Code.
There are Christmas markets all around Paris, probably in every district there is something. I have been trying to find a Buche de Noel for a few weeks. It's a traditional chocolate log cake, and in my younger french class days I created one with a friend for class. For the whole week I was using subway tickets instead of charging my Navigo pass for the half week because I thought it would be cheaper. Unfortunately I didn't factor in that I take the metro more than twice a day sometimes so I actually ended up spending like 6 dollars more on stupid tickets which are a hassle to carry around because they always get de-sensitized.
Today I went on an excursion to the Georges Rech workroom in Paris, but barely. Our metro line wasn't running so I had 40 minutes to get to class while I was in panic mode. I had to walk about 15 minutes past up and down the hills of Montmartre at 8:30am (the only ones in Paris may I remind you) and down the 300+ stairs of the Sacre Coueur until I was able to reach a crowded security controlled metro line. Ahh Paris, don't cha love it in all it's glory. Oh gosh I forgot... I saw a drunk old guy throw up on himself in the metro. It's funny because everyone just created this invisible wall around him while we all were crammed next to eachother in the other corner. But I mean I guess now my trip has come full circle, seeing as how I already saw peeing and smoking as well.
Hmm I'm sure there was a lot more that happend but I won't bore you with every detail. Or else we can talk about it all in person! 12 days...
So to start, CEA hosted two events on November 23rd, a career workshop and parisian appetizers. The career workshop was interesting because I like taking advantage of whatever I can in that regards. The appetizers weren't that great because I don't like funky stuff but I at least tried.
Thanksgiving was a success. I cooked the turkey breasts and bought the can of jellied cranberries, but all the food was delicious. There were about 12 people in our apartment and we played a few games and drank a few bottles of wine. I'm glad I was able to Skype my family for awhile. We had a french friend here as well so he was able to experience a great American holiday. Oh and you will not believe this...so our power went out 30 minutes before people were supposed to show up. I was standing there in the dark like really, really this is going to happen right now. We stood outside with our little candle waiting for some frenchie to walk by and help us out. Sooner or later some random neighbor figured out that it was when we turned our oven on. So for the next week we were complaining to our poor housing coordinator that we needed a new oven. When she came to check it out for herself nothing was wrong, of course.
Earlier that day I went to Le Musee de Arts Decoratifs which houses the Musee de la Mode et du Textile (fashion museum). I thought that was really cool but the exhibit was focused more on the lesser known designers of the 90s.
The next day I had to go to this wine exhibition for my oenology class. We had to ask these vineyard owners questions in french for our projects, and well I was the one in my group with the highest french level. I had such a difficult time trying to understand what they were saying and my part of the presentation was about biodynamic wine, which there were no producers of at that specific exhibition. I was getting really tired but when someone else would go up to them and ask if they spoke english they would either ignore them or say no. One guy even said no to us but when I started speaking in french he got bored or something and started talking back to us in french. Whatever, to quote my haute couture teacher JPC "we are cruel, we are french". I did like the fact that we got professional wine tasting glasses free as a souvenir.
By the way this is off subject but I just thought I would share some more wonderful quotes from JPC.
-you could speak about men, perhaps that you know something about
-love your enemy
-paf!
-khak khak (insert waving hand gesture here)
-remember living
-now you dance with your hips, sex.
-she's not a worker, she's a Marlene Dietrich
-...and once again the pope wrote a letter
-you are perfect (to me :) haha)
-you don't frequent the sexy shops?
-you must find a man with a chevaliere (to me because I mentioned I've seen many men wearing this certain ring)
The next day was BLACK SATURDAY!! I went to the Champs-Elysees Christmas markets with a few friends. I love all the little knick knacks and food stands they had. It was a very nice way to spend the afternoon. I would've liked to taken a ride on the big ferris wheel but whoah was that overpriced. I think it was the largest "moving" one in the world.
The next week flew by so fast, and again it was Thursday. I went to the wall of love in Montmartre, Place du Tertre (artist square), and the Musee de Montmartre in my district. I am really starting to like where I'm living. I wish I would've explored it more in detail when it was warmer haha. Then that night I went to the circus. No, it was not fun. The whole thing was based upon invetro and cloning, some weird crap like that. The stunts weren't even that great. I don't know, I'm just glad I won those tickets where I wasted a few hours of my life away.
On Friday I went on an haute couture excursion to the area of Saint Germain des Pres, where we walked around looking at some fashionable stores and cafes. Saturday was saved for homework and being lazy mostly but then I went to a park called Buttes Chaumont where I saw a pretty waterfall, lots of children sledding, and of course dogs running around off their leashes. Then I traveled over to Notre Dame to see the big Christmas tree in front of it.
On Sunday I went to the Montparnasse cemetary and saw some beautiful graves along with the Montparnasse tower. Nearby I stopped at Saint Sulpice church, where that fountain can be seen in the death scene of the movie The Da Vinci Code.
There are Christmas markets all around Paris, probably in every district there is something. I have been trying to find a Buche de Noel for a few weeks. It's a traditional chocolate log cake, and in my younger french class days I created one with a friend for class. For the whole week I was using subway tickets instead of charging my Navigo pass for the half week because I thought it would be cheaper. Unfortunately I didn't factor in that I take the metro more than twice a day sometimes so I actually ended up spending like 6 dollars more on stupid tickets which are a hassle to carry around because they always get de-sensitized.
Today I went on an excursion to the Georges Rech workroom in Paris, but barely. Our metro line wasn't running so I had 40 minutes to get to class while I was in panic mode. I had to walk about 15 minutes past up and down the hills of Montmartre at 8:30am (the only ones in Paris may I remind you) and down the 300+ stairs of the Sacre Coueur until I was able to reach a crowded security controlled metro line. Ahh Paris, don't cha love it in all it's glory. Oh gosh I forgot... I saw a drunk old guy throw up on himself in the metro. It's funny because everyone just created this invisible wall around him while we all were crammed next to eachother in the other corner. But I mean I guess now my trip has come full circle, seeing as how I already saw peeing and smoking as well.
Hmm I'm sure there was a lot more that happend but I won't bore you with every detail. Or else we can talk about it all in person! 12 days...
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