Tu t'es l'instant, moi le bonheur

Blasphemy! I went back to where the Michelin store should be, and the concierge told me "Ca n'existe plus." Quelle horreur!

So more about my day to day life here. As I've said, I live on the 6th floor of an apartment in a swank neighborhood, and my fantastic family lives on the 5th as does Alex, the other study abroad student. About my family: both Sophie and Jean-Marie are travel journalists; they've been everywhere in the world and we didn't meet Jean-Marie until a week after we arrived because he was in Senegal. Adele is 20 and is studying law at the Sorbonne. We all have dinner together at 8 about 6 nights a week; sometimes Adele or Alex go out with friends/family.

I wake up early-ish, put on a huge pot of coffee (we all guzzle the stuff before noon), and take a 10 min-half hour train to class: north for my two translation courses, south for writing, southeast for ethics, and west for math. I'm trying to make friends and am semi succeeding, I promise! Lunch is a panini and a drink or a sandwich from home. After afternoon class or whatnot I like going to museums, or sitting around the Tuilleries, or shopping around the Marais, or walking around the Seine, or hanging out with a friend. There are lectures and other interesting things going on too, and something always comes up. For instance, today I bought a book for class, then realized that Notre Dame was across the river. After dinner it's homework, or reading, or rarely going out. I'm contemplating getting a job.

Gratuitous sunset shots for the win! I've walked around a lot and still am amazed at everything I find. Went to the Musee Eugene Delacroix, which is in his old apartment in my neighborhood, and then the Musee L'Orangerie, which has Monet's 8 gigantic water lilies paintings up in two special rooms. Photos could never do it justice, to be immersed in light and air and art like those rooms. It was amazing, just to see emotion and beauty captured on those canvases. My favorite sky color, that moving hue of indigo at sunset, was all over the 'green reflection' one. I didn't take photos of it because that seemed sacreligious. Also, went to the Paris flea market with Deana; got to paw our ways through piles of clothes for 2 euros, and it never ended.