Alright, Monday we saw Sainte Chapelle which is a church that looks like a reliquary and inside it's called little gem because of all of the colours and stain glass and gold. It is truly beautiful but to get inside you have to go through a government building and be extremely quiet. Not American quiet, Irish/French quiet which means silence basically. Then we saw the Notre Dame and my group didn't have time to go inside the great building because we had to hurry to the opera. I didn't have any camera on me so I couldn't take a picture of it but I wasn't impressed with the opera house, Opera de la Bastille to be exact. It was beige marble and I've seen beige marble. It looked very modern though so if you like that sort of thing, take a picture when you go. However the sets and the costumes of the opera we saw were so detailed and wonderful that I wanted to buy a DVD after the final act because I didn't get one during the intermission, but alas. It was after ten and everything was closed, c'est la vie.
Yesterday, we couldn't decide between taking the bus or the taxi since one member in our group is up there in years and the metro was brutal on her since we were basically running all over the metro. It's very big and confusing. I like buses and then I realize even at home I don't go on the metro unless I'm with someone. BART on the other hand I do go on. It's funny that they had to lecture the LA people who aren't used to taking public transportation because in SF, almost everyone uses Muni or BART. I mean there are as many cars as there are in Paris but I definitely didn't need a lecture. Because THe Great Blank Esquire knows how to be on public transportation and not to smile at anyone.
Monday night some guy was taking pictures and saying 'you choke, you choke" while pointing to the water bottles we were carrying. I have no idea what he meant, maybe he was trying advocate against bottled water or perhaps he was merely insane. That's one the reasons we should take the metro in groups at night: crazy people. Another thing is to sort of act like you know where you are going even if you don't and to be confident. I got lost on my second day going to class but I arrived a little late after I found the 86. The important thing was to walk and know how to use the maps on the back of the bus stop. You know those long flat escalators in airports, especially in the Frankfurt airports (it's like they couldn't put enough of them in and thank god for that otherwise we would have missed our plane for sure without them) anyway there's a few of them in the metro. Yeah.
My cough is getting better and that's because of the cough syrup. I hate cough syrup but even in France, the cough syrup is better. That overwhelmed me a bit. I don't want to be the person that says 'everything is better in France" because the metro isn't.
Today we are going to the Louvre, apparently it's very grand and so people may become lost. I know what I'm looking forward to seeing! Oh it'll be so enchanting and wonderful.
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