oh it's a jolly holiday with (er...without) Mary!

Last weekend was so much fun...it was a very Mary Poppins kind of a weekend! It started with the resident chalk artist of Nantes doing a mural of Jesus (Alyce: why is Jesus smoking a joint?! Me: erm...Alyce that's a candle!! ...oh). Then, we bought ourselves candy apples at the Marché de Noël. Of course, that wasn't enough - we rode the carousel with said candy apples! We were laughing and eating our candy apples and being loud americans on a carousel meant, of course, for children. The french people started gathering around and laughing at us and snapping pictures with their camera phones, but it was no skin off our noses! You KNOW they'll never forget those crazy american girls...and the best part was when Nicole and Lauren stumbled upon the scene...and Nicole started running AROUND the carousel trying to get pictures of us! it was pretty much hilarious and it made me so happy =D and the final part of our very Mary day was when we went to the Jardin des Plantes. It's absolutely gorgeous...I'm going to spend a lot of time there next semester, I think. We were walking around and saw this man feeding pigeons, so we wander over. All of a sudden, he pours the feed into his hand - and the pigeons fly up and perched on his hand eating out of his palm! we were pretty much amazed...and then he held out his hand to me. He poured the feed into my hand...and next thing I know, a snow white pigeon flies up and clings to my fingers as it pecks at the food in my hand. I was very Beauty and the Beast, as well as 'feed the birds, tuppence a bag...' (except that we didn't have to pay a tuppence!) it was such a fun, random afternoon...the sort of weekend you miss if you travel every single weekend like so many of my classmates do...

and speaking of travel, I'm headed to Paris tomorrow! I can't wait...Paris is beautiful enough as is, but I can only imagine it all decked out for Christmas! It'll hopefully be a nice, relaxing weekend - malgré que (despite that) I finished the awful beast of a paper, I still have three more to write within the next week and a half - all of them for the classes at the fac that I haven't had since the first week of november, of course! but one is done - well, in need of editing, but done - and another has been started...and the third will be EASY. The topic is "women in Les Liaisons Dangereuses" - c'mon, I'm a Women's Studies major...I can write a paper like that in my sleep!

also - the facebook photo album of pics that my friends took has been updated...I'll get my own pics up after the Parisian weekend.

and a weather update: raining, as always. but that's because it's currently 13 degrees...Celsius. which makes it about 56 F =D but I hope there'll be snow when I come home...in 15 days!

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