quick recap, because somehow i end up saying too much and dont update as often as i want to.
monday: i think this is the night i had donkey sausage. i mean, it just tasted like salami to me, but i do love salami. i've been craving a lot of salami lately. it's so delicious over here. maybe it's delicious in the US too, maybe i just hadn't discovered my love of salami yet. the lacaines brought it back from corsica (where they were over the weekend). yeah, they travel a lot. and then during dinner we had an animal discussion, where i'm pretty sure nobody really knew what they were talking about. i'm going to wikipedia this now: a mule is the offspring of a male horse and female donkey. a female horse and male donkey make a hinny. mules are more common because female donkeys don't put out. i'm kidding. mules and hinnies are sterile because horses and donkeys have different numbers of chromosomes.
useless information of the day: Colloquially, the term "ass" is usually used today to refer to a larger, horse-sized animal, and "donkey" to a smaller, pony-sized one.
tuesday: this was the day i had that delicious chocolate tart. i wish i could show you a picture. it had two raspberries on it, and was chocolate ganache. i dont even know what chocolate ganache is. but it was so good, it would sound like a word like ganache. ganachhhhhhhhhhe.
wednesday: i wasnt feeling well yesterday, so after class i came home and took a nap. i was going to go to an ISEP (host school) class on geopolitics (highly recommended by previous stanford students) in the afternoon, but the nap was a much better idea. i went to the alumni cocktail later wednesday night, and alumni are super cool people! i talked to laurence, who spent the last five years working for doctors without borders in AFRICA, marie, who owns a house in normandy and wants to invite us there (!!), jeremie, who hires "creative talent" (i know), and jean-paul, who changed his story every time i heard someone ask what he did. so far, he's been in the navy, a finance professor at a business school, an engineer, and now on the board of some investment fund. he's probably one of those people who's done ALL of those things.
Quote of the Day:
Jeremie: When I was a Stanford, you know what I noticed? Nobody kisses at Stanford! I walk by couples lying next to each other on the lawn and there is NO KISSING! The girls have nothing but swimsuits on and they're reading! Why aren't they KISSING?
so that, my dears, is the fundamental difference between the US and France. no kissing.
and at the cocktail there was SUCH GOOD food. i ate so many little hors d'oeuvre that i didnt even need to eat dinner. there was a thing called pain surprise (surprise bread). imagine taking a cylindrical loaf of bread, slicing the top off, and then slicing the rest into sixths. and then making FINGER SANDWICHES and then putting it all back together to look like untouched bread. and then putting the top back on. i thought it was just bread, but when i got a closer look, i saw smoked salmon!
cathy has no camera=pictures from google, sadly:
like that, only instead of decorative roses it was the top of the loaf. and there werent bits of meat sticking out, the one we had was more deceptive. and i also had these really really good grilled vegetable kebab type things. they were mini kebabs, the kind that you can just stick the entire thing in your mouth at once, and the vegetables on the stick were all sliced and square and neat looking. so, classy grilled vegetable kebabs.
i can't find satisfactory mini vegetable kebab pictures on google.
today: i dont have classes on thursdays, so i slept in (bwah hah hah). the sun was out, so i decided to go to the eiffel tower! i brought some reading to do with me, and it was beautiful and gorgeous. and i didnt have my camera. i dont think i've ever died more on the inside. of course, half an hour later, the sun went away and it got too cold to just sit in the park, so i walked around for a bit. there were a ton of tourists around, and people trying to sell stuff to the tourists. i liked how one guy just yelled 'china china china china china' as i walked by. it was classy.
Quote of the Day:
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, about Bill Clinton:
Paul Provenza: He seems like a high school student who's graduated, but goes back to hang out.
Peter Sagall: And everybody's like dude, you're 28, you really should [laughter]
tomorrow we leave on the bing trip to carcassonne, a medieval fortress city in southeast france. food is all covered (and the menus look DELICIOUS), but the trip is full of 7:30am wake up calls and walking tours. it should be fun though, carcassonne looks beautiful.
i hope there isn't a metro strike. because that means i have to wake up at 7am and make the 6km walk to class with my carcassonne luggage. which is not fun. i just checked the website and i don't understand what it says. hopefully somebody tells me.
aaaaaugh i can't function without my camera....
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