Monday, February 2, 2009

Home Away From Home

Snow!

The view when you walk in the door. The drier.



The balcony!


Jeeeealous?







The kitchen.



Again



Living room



Again

My room (messy, I know)

Of Montreal
























































Thursday Greve and Bar Hoppng
























































Tuesday, January 27, 2009

More Pictures!

...As promised, these are more of the pictures I took on Saturday. These are all from the Montparnasse Cemetery.



































Sunday, January 25, 2009

Just Another Post

Well, I wasn't able to post all the pictures I wanted to, so maybe I'll try later. Anyway, yesterday I went for yet another walk. This time I went to the Luxembourg Gardens. There's a place in the gardens for kids to play and such, which definitely brought back the feeling (no specific memories) of being a kid in France. It made me realize how much I love it here, but also how much I miss my family.

Then I made my way over to the Montparnasse Cemetery and saw Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir's grave. Aparrently, Serge Gainsbourg and Manray are buried there too, but I didn't see their graves. While I was in the cemetery, I started to hear shouting and chants, and realized that there was an anti-Israeli march today. So I walked a bit around Montparnasse and saw the protest briefly.

I went into the Galeries LaFeyette, but it wasn't nearly impressive as the one we went to with Isabelle, but it was warm inside. Then I made my way over to Forum des Halles to look for the FNAC (kinda like best buy) so that I could buy tickets to the Of Montreal concert this Saturday. Alright, so this place is an underground mall, so they indicate the levels as -1,-2, etc...but instead of having the ground floor be zero and the lowest floor be -3, it's completely opposite. Anyway, once I got that figured out I got my ticket and I'm so excited! I think a few other people from school might be going, but even if they don't I know it'll still be a good time.







I think Margaret requested this...










Monday, January 19, 2009

Pain au Chocolat

So I bought a pain au chocolat, and the man said that I have a very pretty accent. I thought that maybe he was just joking, but apparently french men like american accents! Swooooon!

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Une Promenade

I took a walk today around my neighborhood and it's really growing on me. There are a bunch of cool sculptures and parks. It doesn't feel so much like a big city too, which I think I'm starting to like. I'll let pictures do the talking...


My view
My rue

My apartment block

There are palms trees in Paris! They're just hiding inside


A skate park
Some crazy stadium covered in grass. AC/DC will be there this month.





For Dad...
La Bibliotheque Nationale and a really cool bridge

I have pictures of more of these sculptures. They're so awesome.
Another one for Dad



So good.