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okay. life = SO CHAOTIC right now. I have a grammar final tomorrow, my french writers final monday, france and the atlantic world final tuesday, and I have to hand in my Liaisons Dangereuses paper tuesday and Fables de la Fontaine paper on wednesday. THEN I can breathe. and then come home next friday!!!

recap of my Parisian weekend:
exhausting
hilarious! we even got a french man to burst out laughing =O
emotionally overwhelming
WET...though we did come up with a term to describe the rainy days in France: Reject Nanny Rain. you know, in Mary Poppins, when Mary shows up and all of the other nannies' umbrellas flip inside out and they blow away? yep, Alyce and I became the reject nannies.
just plain amazing.
as for what we did/saw?
Friday: Moulin Rouge, café des 2 moulins (IE THE CAFE IN WHICH AMELIE WAS FILMED!!), Le Sacre Coeur, Montmartre, Champs Elysées, the Ferris Wheel
Saturday: Eiffel Tower, Starbucks (yes, that counts. when you're as much of a coffee addict as Alyce, it's almost as exciting as any of the famous monuments!), lunch with Alex, Notre Dame de Paris, MUSEE D'ORSAY!!, Ce Soir, Je Dors Chez Toi (a really cute french chick flick), haagen daaz ice cream =D
Sunday: Church, Arc de Triomphe, Opéra Garnier (because I'm a good little Phantom Phan!), Galeries Lafayette, attempted to go to Père Lachaise (the famous people graveyard - featured in the FANTASTIC film Paris, Je T'aime)
and then since we were utterly exhausted and in so much pain from walking all over Paris, we crashed at the gare and waited for our train.

was it the perfect last trip of the semester? you better believe it.

and while I haven't had a chance to upload Paris pics, I did update the "nonfacebookpeoples" album, the "Ma Vie en France" album, and a new one: Ma Vie en France: la deuxième partie

...hopefully once finals are done I can write one more REAL post before I get on the plane to come home...in 8 days!!
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