Latin Quarter

Yesterday:

 I was feeling brave! My group was meeting at the Paris Mosque, which looked fairly close to me on the map so I decided to walk. My walk took me past the Museum National History and the Jardin des Plantes ( which is huge!). For the first time in Paris I found my destination problem free! We had some really great tea and pastries , and were surrounded by beautiful lamps and birds! Yes birds, little “street” birds were allowed to fly in and out as they pleased and some would even land on your table looking for some snacks! Afterwards we walked around the Latin Quarter, which had a bunch of little food stands and a frozen foods store where you can buy whole lobsters. Our tour took us to the Pantheon and ended a little bar. The bar was a strange experience for me as a fresh 21 year older, they never carded you! You can just waltz right in and buy drinks. The second weird thing about the bar was that it was about a euro cheaper to buy a drink if you stand at the bar rather than sat down. Since we had a massive group of about 15 we had to pay the fee to sit down. By this time it had started to rain/snow, just in time for my walk to find some cheap food! I made friends with girls from Poland and California who were also starving. We ended up at La Petite Gostellerie, where I had my first menu experience. In Paris you can order off of the menu, which is basically a three course meal for a very good price 10 euro!  I got some amazing onion soup, and me feeling brave I ordered “crittersnthings” which was a type a sausage…I was not a big fan, and for dessert I got a lovely chocolate muse. The I navigated my way home on the metro :]

Today:

Today was no fun! As exchange students we are required to take methodology classes which are supposed to teach us the French way of doing school. Well it ends up that you write an essay the same way in America as you do France! But I had to sit through two 2hr lectures on how to write a French essay that literally said the exact same thing! Blah Blah Blah, so by the time this was over my bank was closed so I am still bankless! Hopefully tomorrows classes won’t be a redundant! Well I’m off to “Bar-a-Day” which is put on by the university! Hopefully I can find a cheap drink!