I skipped frisbee to watch American series dubbed in French with my host family.

With less than two weeks left in Paris, I find myself in the gut-wrenching predicament of wanting to/NEEDING to do so many things before leaving the country, and yet cannot compel myself to do ANYTHING when under such pressure.

So as per usual, I guess I'll resort to making a whole nice list so I can better evaluate what I have to do and by when.

Attractions:
- Maison de Victor Hugo
- Musée de Rodin
- Musée de l'art moderne
- Monter la Tour Eiffel ?

Homework:
- Study for art final
- Write draft for benevolat paper
- Study for theatre final
- Study for atelier plume final
- Write Parisian memories
- Finish end-of-the-year song
- Find someone to sing it

Things to do:
- Haircut
- NafNaf
- Pack
- Close bank account
- Make recipe book for host mom
- Pay for frisbee maillots

Those are all reasonable things to do. If I bring myself to do half of those things by the end of this week, I'll be in good shape.

I still can't believe that I'll be leaving Europe for awhile. I can definitely picture myself living here for good. Not in Paris, but somewhere in Europe. I've found through my travels around France that I love other parts of France a lot more than I liked Paris. I can't wait to come back and explore.

I'm also pretty bummed about not having a summer job. I hope that something works out. Being a real live grownup with taxes and insurance and a real job hasn't really sunken in yet. I'm glad I have a year left of college to figure it out.

I might try to write a whole nice resume of my feelings and everything before I leave, but for the moment, I have to get to sleep so that I can wake up in the morning. I have a language assessment in the morning to see if I've really learned any French during my year here. On va croiser les doigts !

Leaving on a jet plane!

I'm leaving for Barcelona in several hours! I'm so excited to get out of Paris for awhile. After being with my family for a week playing Super Tourist, I can't wait to explore some sites that I haven't seen yet.

I'll be in Spain from today until Tuesday, and then Wednesday morning I'm leaving for Nice. Of my three travel buddies, I've never travelled with two of them, so I'm anxious to see how we wind up working together as a travel team.

Anyway, having my family in Paris was a fun experience. I hope that it's given them the bug to explore some more countries. In the meantime, I can't wait to have new travels in the future. Seeing as the 7-hour direct flight to Paris all but wiped them out, I can't see my family hopping on a 24-hour flight to head to New Zealand or Australia with me. Any takers?


I don't want to sound like I'm too good for Paris. Quite the contrary. Since I've been here, I've consistently been shown that Paris's standards far exceed mine, in terms of fashion, culture, and communication skills. I like to think that I've adjusted pretty well, but I find it pointless to try and pretend that I'm a French person and be serious about it. I have enough French friends, but it's not because I said to myself BON JE VAIS ME TROUVER DES AMIS FRANCAIS. Through working at the soup kitchen and playing frisbee, activities that interest me, I've had conversations with other people. And not just French people, but Tunisian, Algerian, Italian, American, Australian, German, Scottish, Irish, Spanish.. the list goes on. We all speak in French, Spanish, and English as necessary, and it's not a problem if we're not ALWAYS speaking French!

I do like the JYA Paris program enough, but the constant pressure to BE French and to MAKE French friends is stifling! If I thought to myself at the beginning of the year that I was just going to talk to French people all the time and try to work my way into their clique, I would've wound up miserable. PASSION is what really brings people together, no matter the language. Language comes next.


Anyway, that's enough. I'm still happy to be here, and I still have so much to see in Paris! I need to see pretty much every museum and cemetary ever. Thank goodness I still have one last First Sunday of the Month to see the museums for free. AND we're going to Parc Asterix! Log flumes and rollercoasters, here I come!

I added this to my "to-do list", so I guess that means it's been awhile since my last update.

Also, that it's becoming a chore to write in here. Maybe it's because I'm out actually living my Parisian life as I should? A voir.

Today, I played catch with Trevor in the park under the Eiffel Tower. My other friends didn't show, since it was grey and moche (ugly) outside, but the instant that we stepped foot into the park, the sun shone strong. It really felt like spring.

Trev and I were the spectacle of the Champ de Mars. Everyone stopped to look at us. Little kids literally smiled ear to ear with excitement watching us throw our frisbee back and forth.

Afterward, we went to the Cimetiere du Montparnasse, that, although I have classes a mere .5 kilometers away (pure estimation), I had never visited. We saw Poincaré the mathemetician's grave, with someone's math-y note that they left on it. We saw Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre's combined tombstone, with lots of metro tickets on top of it (curious), stones holding them down.

I made a whole list of things I need to see before the end of the year. This is it:
- Cimetiere du Montparnasse
- Pere Lachaise
- Maison de Victor Hugo
- Musée de l'Orangerie
- Les Catacombes
- Musée Picasso
- Musée d'art moderne
- Musée Rodin (ish)
- Musée Zadkine (free, by Reid Hall)
- Musée National du Moyen Age (avec la tapisserie du licorne)
- Place des Vosges
- Sunday organ recital at Notre Dame, 4:30

7

I've gotten over the fact that I don't have a job. I'm going to apply to some, but I might just really like to stay home this summer. I know that it's the summer before senior year and everything. I don't know. It would actually be good for me to get out of the house, so I could get another job as a waitress to make back some money.

I guess I'm glad that I've got all this crap going on while I'm in Paris. If I were at Smith right now, I'd be driving down to Georgia with the frisbee team. As much AMAZING as spring break in Savannah is, I don't think I'd genuinely be able to appreciate it.

In other news, Abby and I went to see Le Roi Lion, and it was awesome. It was such an engrossing theatrical experience. However, there were even some parts where I remembered that it was Disney and kind of felt guilty for liking it so much. The parts I appreciated most were the puppets. Julie Taymor is my idol. There were huge elephants, real-looking giraffes, masks on every lion while not distracting from the actors' faces, Chinese shadow puppetry.. it was SO cool!

School is easing up. I'm not concerned about grades in the slightest, which is helpful.

Anyway! I'm off to work in the library, have some breakfast, get dressed, and get some Thai food for dinner! Whoooooo!

Didn't get the job.

I am heartbroken.

Directive?

My interview went alright. I found out that they usually do group interviews, and I felt awkward having a one-on-one interview with just one of the directors. We still did the awkward group question and answer session, but since there were only two of us, we both felt kind of silly introducing ourselves.

When I get nervous, I just say EVERYTHING that I want to say in one big blast. I wound up saying everything that I wanted to say, I think, but I can't reflect on what went down to be able to critique my performance. Hopefully, my smile, eye contact, and general charm have kept me in the running. The interviewer seems like a sweet girl, but I don't know if it's just out of necessity or if she really thinks I've got a shot at the program.

In any case! I'll know by Tuesday! And then, it's off to apply to the Bronx Zoo or something. I really hope I get into this program though. It just sucks that the other groups in the program who offered me interviews NEVER got back to me once I e-mailed them to set it up.

Other news: I'm still feeling productive, even without having gotten much done. I've got things organized, I'm seeing friends, and I even picked up "Fried Green Tomatoes" from the Smith library to read once I'm done with my required readings for class. I've been going to sleep earlier than usual, which has been wonderful.

Now I'm off to find if I can find more than 10 synonyms for the verb "to say". Bonne soirée à tous!

Sssssso.

I've learned that I stutter and stammer a little bit. I thought that it was just in French, but apparently it's in English too. If I don't think a lot about what I want to say before speaking, my words come out mixed up, whether it's in English or French. I'm speaking up more now though, which is better than just shutting up. I've kind of resigned myself to being embarassed no matter what I do/say, so it's become easier to just try to get my ideas out!

Greece was INCREDIBLE. I've been dreading writing a re-cap, but I'll try to recall what all was done. Alix and I left for the airport on Thursday evening because our flight was very early Friday morning. I brought my HUGE laptop in order to have a video teleconference via Skype with one of the jobs I wanted. We wound up having to hold the interview at 3:40 a.m. Paris time. Being cracked out and on NO sleep at an airport was NO GOOD. HOWEVER! I found out that they offered me a second interview tomorrow evening, where I'll have to teach a lesson on telling time to non-native English speakers via Skype. I'll let you know how it goes!

After no sleep, we headed on the plane for Athens! We arrived, took a nap, and then headed off. I really can't remember in what order we did everything, but in all, we saw the Ancient Agora, the Acropolis, lots of souvlaki, tzatziki, and free wine (pretty ladies get the free crap wine). We also got to go to a wine festival, which was awesome. There were countries from all over the world, and we got to sample little bits of all of the different ones. One of the wines was so smoky that it reminded me of whisky. I couldn't help but think about how weird it was that here I was at a wine festival when in my own home country, and yet I wouldn't be trusted to have a drop of alcohol for another 4 months.

After four days in Athens, we took a 6-hour ferry over to Santorini. It reminded me so much of an aircraft on the inside that I forgot that we were even on water. The seats were like airplane seats, and watching the world go by from my crouched position, we could've easily been skimming the water from the air. When we finally spotted Santorini, we could tell that it was our island because of the red and black sand all over due to the volcano (which has an eruption once every 50 years or so, and it's due!). There was practically no one on the island except for us two, and so we were treated with the utmost hospitality wherever we went. We had particularly exciting adventures when we went to the black beaches of Perissa, since we were literally the only people on the beach. It was raining and cold, but we braved it to dip our toes in the surprisingly warm water. We also made lots of animal friends, including a very cuddly cat and two dogs. The island animals could've quite easily had many diseases, but I'm still living, and we didn't get bitten, so I'm pretty sure that they were just friendly. Through all of Greece, we saw dogs as if they were any other city rodent. Notably in Athens, they were a big nuisance, barking at motorcycles and going up to bite the tires of moving cars. But the dogs on the island were some of the sweetest animals I ever met.

After braving the rain and cold and realizing the next bus wouldn't be around for another hour and a half, we sought shelter in a nearby restaurant, which I'm sure must be hopping during the summer season. However, we were the only two who came in who weren't locals, and we took every chance to try out our newly-acquired knowledge of the Greek language.

We also went to the red beaches, which weren't as red as we would've expected, and we came across a dredlocked dog who showed us around. Alix named him Hercules, but he looked a heck of a lot like our dog, Maggie.

He led us up on top of a hill to get a view of the other islands, and then we met up with him after grabbing an authentic dinner at a "restaurant", where the whole family was gathered, doing sewing, drinking, watching TV, doing their own cooking, and ironing. They sat us in the corner, where we watched Hercules and his assumed wife with an underbite and their two babies.

Afterward, we waited for the bus with our Japanese friends who were also staying at our hotel, and Hercules sat with us until he got too bored with getting pet to death.

After Santorini, we took the ferry back to Athens, stayed in an AMAZING hostel for 15 euros where we had a room to ourselves (I LOVE the off-season), and took a plane back to Paris in the morning.

Anyway, here are some more pictures!

Acropolis

Athens, theatre, and the new, not yet opened museum of Greek history in the back.

Santorini


Now that vacation is over, I've been surprisingly productive! I'm excited to see more of Paris once my family gets here, and I still can't believe that we only have three more months here. This Thursday, I'm going to an apéro (apéritif, or basically an excuse to have people bring you wine and food for a party) for the girls' frisbee team, Friday I'm going to see my first opera ever, Saturday I'm going to Reims for a champagne tasting, and Sunday we're going to Reid to watch one of my favorite movies, "Kirikou et la sorcière", which I learned about in high school from my bilingual school in New York. My host family and I are on pretty good terms as far as I know, and I've got a bunch of good friends and acquaintances. And the weather is starting to look more like spring every day! As much as I complain sometimes, there's no where else I'd rather be at this moment. Je suis contente, in the Frenchest meaning of the word.


Tonight, I'm going to polish up my lesson plan to show the directors of the program tomorrow night, and maybe finish some homework. Tomorrow, I'm off to hang out with Yael, see an art expo with Abby, rehearse my lesson plan one last time, and show it off to the directors at 9:15 my time! Thursday, I'm probably going to check out if Le Roi Lion still has student rush tickets (how great would it be to see The Lion King in French???) and maybe even just chill out and explore Paris on my own. I've learned that I always like being with someone when going anywhere, but maybe flying solo wouldn't be a bad idea for me to see what it's like.

Je ne le crois même pas. On a moins de trois mois qui nous restent, et je ne me sens toujours pas accoustoumé à la vie parisienne. My goal for the coming week is to see something in every arrondissement, just to get a feel for them. I might even descend at Bonne Nouvelle and see what really goes on at that metro stop!

It has been SO LONG.

I apologize for abandoning my blogging career for what feels like forever, but while I haven't been blogging, I've been making sweet vids! Here is my latest one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf5fIlOvSHc

School has been pretty darn awesome. I'm glad I made the oft-mocked choice of not taking any classes at the Sorbonne this semester, because Paris higher education IS ON GREVE. In other words, there's a whole lot of shit going down in Guadeloupe, President Sarko is trying new reforms to get (socialist) France to be more like capitalist America, and people are going CRAZY! For Smith peeps in Paris, that means that the girls at Paris 7 (Denis Diderot university) haven't had any second semester classes, and that the rest of the people at Paris 4 (the Sorbonne) are having classes on and off depending on whether the teachers and/or students happen to be striking on that day. I had some crazy videos and pictures that I took from when the protesters were going down Boulevard du Montparnasse right next to Reid Hall (where Smith classes are). I'll post them soonish. Hopefully.

I've been having trouble feeling a solidarity with my protesting peers. Although I think that Sarkozy is making a hella dick move by trying to capitalize France's system of higher education by putting all of the good teachers in certain schools and not continuing the democratic system of a similar education for all by thereby making students pay more to go to "better" schools, I really don't know how I'd feel marching with these students and teachers who are more or less directly related by the outcome of these reforms. Also, since I'm not feeling the repercussions of the striking and the protesting in any real way, I don't feel very strongly for participating. I'm going to try to educate myself on the whole situation further to see what's going on. For living in a city with so many pertinent issues that affect so many, I feel rather dumb on not knowing what's going on with the current French events.

In any case, although my classes are all within the confines of American universities' take on French education, they are all wonderful so far. I'm taking a theatre class, where I've already seen Hamlet IN GERMAN, IN FRANCE, DUBBED IN FRENCH. It was INCREDIBLE. The players were all wonderful, and the modern adaptation did not glaringly take away from the story in any way.

I have a creative writing class, which is a good outlet for working around the structure of the French language in a more playful way. Liking it a lot, although we have so many vocabulary words to learn.

The volunteer experience class is ever interesting, though it always makes me feel bad for not volunteering at the soup kitchen more often than I do.

My art and architecture class with the Middlebury consortium is GREAT. We go on tons of field trips around Paris to discuss the intricacies of the city's art and architecture. Although the teacher is sort of presumptuous about our knowledge of the French language and tends to undermine us by showing off her grasp of the English language, I love being able to discover/rediscover places in Paris in a new way.

In other news, frisbee is going great. I love the team, and although I still feel kind of uncomfortable speaking up in the group setting, I like that I'm being included as one of the gang now. It sort of happened without my realizing it, and I'm glad that it came without forcing it. I feel like some students, particularly the American ones, think that because they know how to do the double-cheek kiss, they should automatically be integrated into the circle of friends, and it just doesn't work that way. All the same, I'm glad that I have people outside of school.


Like Abby said in her last post, I really want to see the things that I've missed from Paris. I'm going to start by reading up on exactly what's been going on with Sarko's reforms and what's happening in Guadeloupe, with the continued promise that I'm going to read up on French news once a day.

Other things I need to do:
- picnic along the Seine
- go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
- see Sacré-Coeur
- memorize exactly which arrondissements are where
- take the Montmartre train
- actually stop at Bonne Nouvelle on the 8/9 and see what's there

I'll add more and cross things out as I do them. A la prochaine!

Once again...

It's been awhile again since I've posted. Sorry, faithful readers! This week has been finals week, though I really only had one final on Monday, and my last assignment is an essay that I thought was due this Friday, but it's really due next Friday! Whoo! I've already finished my art history final (a 4-hour dissertation. Eep.) and my history final (2-hour dissertation). I just have to do some interviews for my essay, since it's in my class about volunteering in France.

Aside from that, I've been slacking a lot on sending things in the mail, but it'll come! I've also been trying to benefit from the sales, since all of Paris goes on sale during the month of January. It hasn't been easy, since my tastes are sort of particular and my body is also sort of particular, as is my bank account. I haven't made any purchases yet, but I hope to go shopping tomorrow after a friend's birthday lunch.

I thought that since I didn't have much to do this week, I would be so productive. I was so wrong! I've been sleeping more and doing neat things that I wouldn't have done otherwise.

INCLUDING!!! I was interviewed for a radio show this morning!!! My friend Hannah was interviewed by a woman last night after watching Obama's inauguration on TV inside "Breakfast in America", and the interviewer invited her to the radio station this morning. I decided to accompany her there, and they wound up interviewing me, too!
http://studioecoledefrance.com/podcast.php?select=mercredi
(Click on the plus sign next to 10h00-10h30 to listen to our interview! It starts sort of in the middle, so you can drag it there to get more of a gist of our conversation)

SO EXCITING! And then, I've been seeing movies, going to outdoor frisbee practice, meeting new people, celebrating the depart of the old president and welcoming the new, going window shopping, seeing friends, volunteering for the first time at the distribution of meals with my soup kitchen, and other things that have been time well spent.

On that note, I'm going to make a list of things that I have to do soonish!

Tomorrow:
- 10:00 - Buy gift for friend with birthday
- Lunch
- Mail things!

Friday:
- Do interview at LaChorba
- Make soup
- Partytiiime

Other things:
- Buy boots and things
- Read Hamlet for theatre course
- Figure out song and dance routine options for next frisbee tournament
- See Sacré-Coeur

OKAY. I'm going to start reading Hamlet! Whoo!

Londupdate!

Here are things that happened in London!

Friday:
- Tried to leave my house literally 2 minutes after sending in my essay that was due
- Got to the train station and realized that I left my passport at home
- Begged the train guy to let me go get it and leave on a later train, which worked
- Got to London, where Yael met me at Platform 9 3/4 (Harry Potter reference!!) in King's Cross station
- Ate dinner with Rosie and Yael in the LSE dorms
- Gave Yael a whole bag of caramel Carambars, which lasted all the way until the end of the weekend
- Made hot cocoa with LSE friends, Mike and Ruchi
- SLEPT until forever in Thanh's empty room

Saturday:
- Breakfast of a chicken burger at Borough Market, and Rosie's first time trying venison meat
- Bought a paint marker for which to give to Julia Nunes to sign my ukulele (quote from the concert - "I have a marker, and I have fists, so I'll either sign your stuff, or we can duke it out.")


I have literally walked away from this post and not updated in and 20 minutes. Bad sign. I think I might just say goodnight with the last remnants I have of the trip:
- Westminster Abbey service at 3:00 p.m., beautiful church from 1100. That's right; that's a year.
- Dinner
- JULIA NUNES CONCERT!!!
- I got there 15 minutes early, and I met this guy Dennis, who was from Southern California originally. He moved to London after only intending on spending 6 weeks in Europe, and he met his wife there. He has 3 kids, one of which came to the concert with him. They're all musical, like he is; he used to be a music wrangler kind of guy, worked his way up to producing or something, is a badass guitar player, and now runs one of/THE biggest film studios in Europe. We bonded and made our way to the front of the stage, where we watched Liam Clayton, 6 Days, and then JULIA NUNES!
- She was adorable. As per us. Also, her older sister was her roadie and did the sound check and everything. Also also, I talked to her before the show started, since Dennis re-introduced himself, since he sent an e-mail saying that he used to be in the record bizzz and he'd love to talk. SO COOL.
- She had lots of banter, which included saying that she didn't like playing "Happy Medium" all that much since it was kind of depressing. When I said "LAME!", she said, "I know, right?!" And then added that she re-discovered a part of her that liked playing it, and it was a really good performance.
- Everyone was SO responsive, and we were all singing along to most of the songs.

After the performance, I went up to her nearly at the end of the line. I told her that she was kind of the one constant from my transition from sophomore year, to summer, to Paris, and that I was very grateful to her for that. We hugged at least twice. I gave her a glass Orangina bottle and Kinder chocolates. She signed my ukulele, but she signed it on the back because I am lame and handed it to her that way. The guy playing music put on Say Anything, and we had a mini-dance party. Then, I made way for the other peeps to go through and say hi to her.

As I figured out my route home, I got everything organized. I went to say one last goodbye to her and one last hug, and I was all happy inside the whole way back to the dorm.

- Got back to the dorm and had more hot cocoa and Carambars

Sunday:
- Walking around FOREVER
- Meeting Sid at Speaker's Corner, which should really be called Shouting Alley. Did you know that you're only allowed to be on Speaker's Corner if you're 6 inches off the ground? Literally, you HAVE to be on a soapbox.
- Saw a Free Hugs guy
- Got McFlurries with Smarties
- Went to the dorm, then Rosie and I went to get fish and chips and Dr. Pepper at FISHCOTEQUE

Monday:
- Went out to eat for lunch at EAT
- Saw the London Transport Museum by myself, which was AWESOME
- Left for Paris

OKAY I'm going to go to sleep. Soon. Also, I'm going to update my list of things to do.

SUCH a good weekend.

I have a lot to say about London, but as it's 2 in the morning, I should probably go to sleep.

For now, have some videos from when I saw Julia Nunes live in concert!
http://www.youtube.com/jamiegirl7188

I promise a real update this week, but for now, here's what's on my agenda for this finals/hell week:

Tuesday:
- Put money on phone
- Write interview questions for my volunteer org
- Write a song about art history and add it to youtube (for studying purposes, bien sur)
- Tune ukulele and bring it to school so I can practice
- Return bag to Amherst girl who needed a place to store it
- Write Chris a letter
- 8:00: Try to go to frisbee practice?

Wednesday:
- Go to LaChorba and ask interview questions/work
- STUDY for art history
- Write about Ary Scheffer to give to art history soutien pooplady

Thursday:
- 8:30: ART HISTORY FINAL
- Meet with MBF for special studies paper
- Return library books


CAN DO. Going to sleep! Bonne nuit!

New video!

This is it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkPov8kobJo

It's an adventure around Paris, with some profanity. Also, I sent it to Julia Nunes, since I'm going to see her in concert in London this weekend! I'll also get to see Rosalie, Yael, and Thanh. So excited! Going to bring my uke. So many jam sessions to be had.

And with that, I'm off to class! Can't wait till this semester's overrrrr.

What I'm doing instead of homework:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly1XwrIc0dc

Watch itttt.

=D

BONNE ANNEE!

So it's been a crazy time. I got back from America this morning at around 8:30 a.m., Paris time (2:30 a.m. EST), and there were soucis getting from the airport to my apartment. Apparently, there was a bomb scare (I tried looking online for a news story about it, but I came up with nothing and you get this instead). Someone left his or her suitcase in a restaurant in the Charles de Gaulle airport, and they had to call in the bomb squad to take care of it. After a lot of hubbub and panicking, I finally got to a bus to take me back to Paris (luckily it was free with my Navigo pass, since they wouldn't let anyone get to the RER station to catch a metro).

I finally got home, took a MUCHNEEDED shower, and slept for awhile, since I couldn't sleep on the exciting plane night plane ride back to Paris.

It doesn't need to be said that I had an excellent time in America. Highlights:
- Gifts: UKULELE/Guitar Hero/Wall-E/everything about DeniseBee
- Maggie
- Christmas with the crazies, I mean, my family
- Mom and Chuchie's rapport and ability to make each other laugh very hard (but don't ask me how hard)
- My dad fixing everything that I've ever broken
- Seeing my brother turn into a complex, interesting, caring person
- Bolt in 3D (I don't care how shitty a movie is; I will love it in 3D, AND we're hilarious and I love you guys)
- Benjamin Button with Gia
- medium iced caramel lattes from Dunkin Donuts
- strawberry surf rider from Jamba Juice
- a less-stressful Christmas period than previous years, thanks to minimal minimalizing of the outrageous work my family puts into the holiday season
- Christmas cookies
- Going to Cubby's for half of a pulled pork sandwich and birch beer on Christmas Eve
- Ben and Jerry's Fossil Fuel pint
- New Year's with Denise


New Year's Resolution: Stop being a whore.

I tried to find definitions that would be appropriate to my idea of what this means to me, but I can't find them. So just know that I'm going to hunker down, get my shit done, and do the right thing.


And, with that, a to-do list!

This week:
- Finish study sheet for France + Europe test on Monday
- Study
- ACE TEST!!!! DONE.
- Talk to Maddie about benevolat project
- Do research for project
- Read Sylvia Beach's book for methodology essay
- Write methodology essay
- Write conclusion for dossier
- Fill out frisbee polls they don't exist anymore, but that's okay because I couldn't go to any of those tournaments, anyway!
- Go to LaChorba to volunteer making soup Literally cannot, so I'm not going to try. Will do work instead! Yayyyy
- Talk to Rosalie about coming to London this Friday afternoon!

Next week:
- Study like CRAZY for Art History
- Figure out what I'm going to do about missing history class on Monday since I'll still be in London X_X
- Write/e-mail all the people I've been meaning to update

And with that, going off to pretend to work! But more likely to SLEEP.