Boxes and Bottles

Today, I opted out of walking around for four hours in 92 degree heat plus humidity which is too hot for corsets. What? Why? Because your Blank Esquire should be kept between 57 and 67 degrees for ideal serving. Today, not much happened. I also opted out of Rodin which has ice cream in the gardens. So you should go if you're trapped in Paris during the heat storm. Tomorrow according to the pretty yellow map of France that shows on the news, it's going to rain with thunder and lightning! ...and be 82 degrees. I'm going into a hole if I didn't have to go to Meaux tomorrow.

Laundry takes about 2:04 0r 2:08 hours, so I was very unhappy last night. I went to bed very late. Of course, going to bed to bed at 11:20 pm here is like going to bed at 2:20pm in California but still it's late when you have a test the next day. Speaking of the test today, I think the oral portion sucked and ecrivez and grammaire weren't bad. Today, I apparently wasn't being very clear because I got three pizzas instead of two which was what I wanted. I wanted two but she didn't understand me or I wasn't being clear so I gave up and agreed. SOmetimes the battle of comprehension isn't worth it.

Oh I stole a box today, it wasn't marked but it's stolen. You may think it's very weird to say "I stole a box" it's better than saying "I stole a tub" but I digress. In the dorm, you are supposed to have a box with your room number on it and a black key for the cupboard. It's truly brilliant because the box is for the fridge and you can put in fromage, lait, jus des fruits, saucisses, legumes, etc. in your box and it's yours and someone else can put in what they want so the fridge is nothing but boxes and bottles... and until today, my plastic bag. Because I didn't want to whinge but on the first day, I noticed I had no box. Now, apparently you can steal a box from someone else or an unmarked box or you can whinge or use a plastic bag like how I was because not everyone has a box but everyone has a cupboard. Je ne sais pas pourquoi. Perhaps it's because people with my room number were bad so they had their box taken away or perhaps they broke it? That's the only things that could possibly make sense. I did see a broken box but it was for 217. I don't know them. First rule of any fridge in a place that has more than two families or from different families, stuff gets moved around. No one says this but you should know I put my bag on third shelf from the top and it ends up in the second or the fourth from the top. I keep forgetting this but things will get rearranged and to think that everything has it's place in the fridge is selfish and probably will cause you to become isolated here and you don't want to feel isolated in Paris. No. Never.

Aussi, the Parisians get freaked out (they hate it)  with loud volume of noise on their buses and Americans talk loudly especially when excited or just normal. Yes your normal speaking voice is too loud, bwhahahaha. It's a bad thing when we ride in groups and there's always someone shushing them and it makes me feel like I'm on a class trip with a bunch of 17 year olds. I feel like I should act like I'm disgusted with the noise and shake my head at them but usually, I just stare out the window.
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