YOGA- HOTIES

Since I've been back in Baton Rouge I've been doing this Hot Yogalites...It is absolutely amazing... I don't think I have ever felt my body that much. I feel I have more energy and to top it off I can stand the southern Louisiana Heat a little better. The latter is probably the greatest benefit.

Last Week I also tried the Foot detox body clease or what ever they call it. You go in put your feet in a bath of salt water and they hook you up to a machine... It pulls out all of the toxins out of your body through the pores of your feet. The water turns a disgusting color of brown and they can come by and tell you everything that it is pulling out. I'm not sure I 100 percent believe in it, but my feet were mighty soft when I pulled them out of the bath. :) Next week, I'm going to try to get some good hiking in before I leave for the frigid land called Prague. I'm getting so pumped.. enough that I pulled out my suitecase. I have started to pack though.. so much effort, but it will come soon. I did However find a european sight like netfliks... So my life is a little less stressful. I know that is a little nerdy, but regardless I had no idea what I was going to do if I couldn't do netfliks.

PHOTO OF METRO BECAUSE I'M IN TRANSITION

Another weird part of this trip is running into people I haven't seen in 6 to 3 years. I completely forgot that some of these people exisited and here we are face to face once again. Some one asked me "What are you doing here" I think that was the first time that I really felt that I was in limbo... I don't belong really anywhere right now. I feel like an eternal visitor... I felt like that at SLC as well... I mean I really can't call a dorm room home and I can't call a place that I see 2 months (if even that) home either. I guess it is the beginning of severing ties with places, but nothing I mean NOTHING is like a hot Louisiana summer. I am lucky for the people I have met and the places I have been... and I guess my idea is that people really do make the place. THAT IS THE HOME THAT I KNOW.

sorry for the ramble...

ok been a while but...
song I'm into as of today.. Skinny love by BON IVER
Movie I just loved... A SINGLE MAN (Tom Ford) STARTER FOR TEN (TOM VAUGHAN)

If you wanna get a grasp of Louisiana... watch The Divine Secrets of the YA-YA Sisterhood... I think it is under rated. I love this film... and If you watch Gossip Girl Like me because I agree I am a sell out... you are in for a little surprise.

That's all I have for now

KISSES
SARAH

The Passenger.... my feelings

This song describes how I feel now... I feel like I'm just floating along.. waiting my time until I figure out what I want... What's the rush? SO update... It's so hot here in Louisiana... and every day my departure for Prague is creeping up on me. I finally brought my sleeping patterns back to normal here.

DEAR IGGY POP,
THANK YOU FOR THIS SONG... thank reminds me of the Film Coffee and Cigarettes... ok at some parts.. it is much like Paris, Je t'aime... only Coffee and Cigarettes came before.. and there is a nice piece with Tom Watts and Iggy Pop...

Trying to get back

So, now i've been back for a week in the hot Louisiana Weather. I'm missing the beauty of France and the People that I met there. I can't wait to make it back to other side of the pond, but that will be in quite some time. So until then I am wrapped up with little things to do before leaving for Prague...

I know it's been awhile

I know it has been quite some time since I've written about my french travels and the films that I've been studying, but I was quickly swept away by the splender of Paris. I really think that my impressions have changed and I am still working on trying to get along better with a different culture... which will be 100 percent helpful when I am in Prague for a full year.
As my Paris travels come to a close I will say that, I truely am going to miss this city. Here I've been able to really expore myself, and ask myself "WHAT do you really want," I have been able to be completely selfish in the since of doing what I want... and I think I finally learned how to say the word "NO"... if only I could learn it when I go shopping.
I've been able to converse in a different language... still a little shaky... I've let my pride go out the window... there is no way to learn a language with out making a complete fool of yourself. For most of my college life so far, everyone just seems so serious all the time... trying to go through the day without actually putting an effort into enjoying life.... and that doesn't mean partying...it means actually spending time with yourself to get to know yourself better...

I've had several compromising situations here, but it's those that you remember the most. The ones that define a part of you. I am blessed with the experiences I have had thus far.... after my rant.

I went to Normady by myself on Saturday... First I had to depart at 7:45... so that meant waking up at 5, then I took the wrong train and ended up....not where I was suppose to be. After frantic calls to Ludamilla... I with the help of an American Family I befriended... found our way to Bayeux and a bus that would take us to Omaha beach. I am still in awe of the beauty of that area... and the serene atmotsphere of the grave yard. Some times I am am in disbelief that that only happened 70 years ago??

After my lovely walking tour... I made it back to the town of Bayeux... which apparently has a famous tapestry..... (I think I could have skipped that one... If you like spending like 8 euros to look at an old piece of cloth... and have a headset tell you the story of the cloth for like 30 minutes.. (when I say story... I don't mean how it was made... I mean it tells you what the pictures mean.... which is a bit obvious when looking at the 70 foot long piece of cloth... just saying) They should make it a middle ages musee or have something else... but all they have is a giant cloth.

The town itself was very adorable.... I would like to make a trip back to France in the near future to do the Normandy region... Bordeaux... and some more of the south.

Sunday

So i decided to list my top creeper moments of the trip thus far...
1. A man in a musee followed me until i would smile for him. I believe it was the l'orangrie... so watch out... for that. I was still able to get away...
2. I was walking out of a sports store( looking for power bars ... i don't know) When a man dropped his credit card. I was in the 14th so I really didn't think anything of it. I called out to him and he picked it up... He then proceded to talk to me until I made it to my destiation.. then went into the movie theatre and waited in line with me... After I faked a phone call he finally left me alone.
3. then of course the allen experience at montmatre... hmmm... sure there are more of those to come.

Today was natrual history musee and the marais and my favoirte place in all of Paris the roman arena in the 5th. It is close to le jardin des plantes and le masque..... I don't even want to talk about how hot it was today... till i talk again next time.

First week french

Ok.... So I'll just sum up the week... I haven't been able to blog because my schedule became a little more full, but any way this week was great! The sorbonne classes have been going well... except for the metro never seeming to get me there on time... I have watched more movies than I can count this week:
Demon Lover
Twilight 3
Trouble Every Day
Be Bad (Youth in Revoult)
The Killer inside me
Le Feu Follet
Klute
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

I also was able to make it to Le Deux Magots... (The Sun Also Rises) and the cafe from Ameile...

Independance DAY

JULY 4
I went on a nice jog through the bois (woods) but actually a park..this morning. Then I bumbled around for a little while before making my way to the place de concord to see the l'orangerie musee. I love Monet so this was heaven for me. I still have yet to get minutes on my cell... and I kept missing everyones calls that I was stuck by myself. It was alright I went to go see Klute which ended up being presented by the one and only JANE FONDA ... love her.

I really liked the film aswell. I thought the cinematography was tres interesting... and who can go wrong with Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda.

I then spent an hour searching for a pay phone so that I could get intouch with my friend who was calling me. IF it is a pay phone why in the world do they only take credit cards (oh yeah only european credit cards) and no change... especally at train stations... not one takes change... some of us are not european.... So I think they should still have some of the old change ones... I mean what if it was a real emergancy?

BED
Start the sorbonne tomorrow!!!