So it's been over a month since I've updated this, and I even forgot how to create a new post! Since my last post I have done so much, so heres a quick update: I went to Chartes, Giverney, Rouen, Amsterdam, visited the Musée du Louvre a few times and turned 21 in the city of light. Yesterday we went to Disneyland Paris, the second happiest place on Earth (after the original park, of course) where I talked to Mickey Mouse on the phone, who wished me a happy birthday, and saw my favorite film Captain Eo on the big screen for the first time in 15 years. Captain Eo starred Michael Jackson and was George Lucas' and Francis Ford Coppola's 3D creation for Disneyland that played from 1986 to 1994 which some how I remember extremely well for being four years old when it closed. When MJ died, they reopened the film at Disneyland and I vowed to see it again! (success!)
I am reaching the half way point of my time abroad, next week will mark my two month anniversary in France. I am so lucky to be spending four months in a foreign country, and I sure as heck am glad to have time away from Santa Cruz, however, i go in and out of experiencing homesickness, as the pressures of living in such a high paced metropolitan city sometimes gets to me.
Living in Paris hasn't stopped being a surreal experience, every amazing adventure I have still leaves me breathless. Sitting underneath the eiffel tower eating fromage et baguette and watching the tower sparkle every hour is just as exciting now as it was two months ago.
My new favorite place in all of Paris has come to be le Marais, which is home to the historic jewish community of Paris and also the best dang falafels in the world. I have probably written of them before, but they are just SO good. I try to go at least once a week, and have so far exceeded this goal.
Its beginning to get cold here... which is scary because coming from Berkeley my cold is 68 degrees and people here laugh at me when I say I am cold... but after surviving a winter in France I feel that I can survive anything!
