Karma?

Thursday:

So I will skip the boring activities of my school day ( but including a picture of another blue Paris sky in my school's court yard) and take you straight to my over adventurous evening! To start off my evening I went over to Sally's house for a proper dinner (ie not sitting alone in my room on facebook!) We made some homemade pasta sauce and I brought some bread and cheese. It was really great having a meal with some real humans! After dinner a larger group of people came over to Sally's to pre-drink. This was a lot of fun to drink and talk, without being crowed in a small Paris bar with super loud music. Speaking of small bars Sciences Po picked another one for Thursday night! Sally, Wade, Bende, Shane, Beatrice*, and I decided to leave the bar for some free ranging. We ended up at a French McDonald's  which I will say has nothing on the American original. Then we headed back to Sally's. This was were I went wrong. It was already about 12 and the metro closes at 12:45, but I told myself I had time for one more drink, WRONG!!!!! We'll I got to my first metro just fine, but it was my transition where everything went south. I got to the platform at 12:47, which I guess is 2 minutes way to late. After watching the other 15 or so people leave the metro I concluded that I had gotten myself into quite the tizzy. I exited the metro into a street that I had never seen before, but found a map and started in the direction of the River Seine.  I knew that I was on the other side of the river but I had no clue that a 5 minute metro ride equates to an hour walk! Well keys between fingers (thanks Bryna Capshew for this lovely street wise tip) I was headed home! I tried my best to keep a level head and not burst out into tears, which I accomplished. Blah Blah Blah big toe blisters and BHSN track shin splints later I had made it to my cross walk!!!! I was looking to the heavens shouting THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I had made it home with zero kidnaps! So the moral of the story is never leave for the metro after 12, because you will have to walk home and have your mother hate you! I must add I've never had such a sound sleep in Paris!

Link to see my journey!
https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=7+Rue+Jean+Arp,+Paris,+France&daddr=Nation,+Paris,+France&hl=en&sll=48.837634,2.373304&sspn=0.007118,0.018475&geocode=FYgx6QIdwTYkACl3sMDzGHLmRzH62LJzM1lsPA%3BFQpe6QIdBo8kACmj-uAScXLmRzGsvc3BFHMkSA&oq=Nat&t=h&mra=ls&z=15

Friday (Today):

Well I managed to drag my sore body out of bed this morning to make it to my last class. Bless my sweet roommate Lena, whom I met in the hall this morning. I told her of my evening and she made me a lovely cup of cappuccino, which tasted like rainbows and butterflies! Once I got to class I was pretty much useless staring out the window in an opened eye sleep! Well once class was over I knew I had to get back to the safety of my bed, I took a glorious nap and woke up hungry. I went to the store and this is were my second round of Karma comes in. I decided that I am better off to drink before going out because its so pricey, well yeah it's cheaper if you get the right bottle of wine that corresponds with the price! I ended up grabbing a bottle that cost 20 euro when I though it was 1.97 what a bummer! Me not knowing how to ask how to return something in French I just took the bottle. I got on the crowed metro where a man was leaning up against the pole to hang on for your dear life, so I took my surfer stance and road the crazy waves of the metro. Two stops later I was almost home and ready to feast on my frozen curry dinner, when I spotted a women laying face down on the escalator! This is where I earn my 20 euro bottle of wine, I tried my best to pull the women up as other simply walked by!!!!!! By this time the people a few stairs behind ( who didn't run up to help) were getting clogged up at the top of the stairs. I had the women half way up when a man finally decided to help us out! Thankfully no coats got caught in the conveyor belt so the lady was able to walk away! So I will end this post by saying "What comes around, goes around" and "Do onto others as you would do onto yourself"

Wish me luck on my way home from the last Bar-a-day!

Just kidding mom!!!!!

-Learning Lily