Thursty Tuesday

CLASS.... Once more with my favorite thing. Dictee... BUT I AM IMPROVING!!!! :)
After a nice long class, 10 to 3 (but enjoyable) Sonia and I muddled our way to the Pompidou center.. but of course it was closed... so we settled for the Luxemburg Gardens... (how lovely It was). I really feel that Paris and I are at the beginning of our love affair. I've just started to become really comfortable in the city and more importantly with me traveling around in a place that I don't know extremely well and the language is ... well I don't mean to make a pun here but (foreign). I do try though.

We went to a used book store where I bought "Greatest Poetry throughout time" (with some notes scribbled in the margins MY FAVORITE!!! I love to see what other people think about the world, love, poems, books... or shopping lists.) and "The Suicide Club" :) for only 3 euros.. PAS MAL.

My host family let me try some fresh artichoke that they boiled. Being that I've never seen an artichoke out of a mason jar... it was very interesting. They even brought out a little vinger to put with it.... It was AMAZING ... we then chatted about several topics. They are the sweetest people ever. I think I say that every day, but it is so true. They are really making this whole experience a really wonderful one. They even put up with my really bad french... I also learned today that I shouldn't say that I'm excited ... which I do very often.. It might give off the wrong idea...

I watched a Jacques Demy film called "Peau d'Anc" or Donkey Skin. I thought it a bit odd but genuinely liked it... I guess it is something that people have to see for themselves. It is a light film that glosses over a very "not so light" subject... It is a little like Cinderella with a twist. I liked the design and movement of the film- they made it not so "bubblegum" as some of the musical type films of the era.(it's not a musical). made 1975