30 août 2014

*Désolée pour my franglish mais j'ai beaucoup de chose de faire avant je me couche*

**I took out the memory card in my camera and forgot to put it back before I left so all the pictures I took are from my phone :( désolée again**

Not much happened today. We went on a tour of Île St. Louis mais j'ai seulement compris un petit peu. Most notable place was Notre Dame:

To be honest, the sides (and the back, not pictured) were much prettier than the front. Also, I have a slight obsession with beautiful doors (you'll probably notice when I upload all my pictures on Facebook... I totally regretted not taking pictures of every beautiful door I passed in Baltimore so I'm making SURE I do it here in PARIS)

 

(1) Front     (2) Side     (3) Door on the same side

After the walking tour, we were supposed to go on a boat tour on la Seine mais nous avons eu faim donc we went to grab a quick bite. I got a Croque-Monsieur and it was SO good. I especially loved the edges where the crust was kind of crunchy:

By the time we got to the boat tours, they were on their lunch break so we had to wait an hour-ish. We sat down at the edge of l'Île where the river splits -- c'était magnifique.

(It looked a lot better in person)

Finalement, nous avons réussi à prendre le tour du bateau. Malheureusement, je n'ai pas pu comprendre qu'est-ce que la guide touristique a dit (même si elle a parlé en les deux français et anglais). There were a LOT of beautiful bridges and famous buildings, etc., but my favorite part was seeing la tour Eiffel for la première fois:

For dinner, I ate some boughetto (bougey-ghetto) Chinese food. It was terribad until we got the check and we each paid 5€ for a sit-down meal. #collegelyf But yea. The food wasn't even worth taking a picture of and I felt quite awful when I woke up this morning. Never again? I say that now but I probably will go again just to save some moneeeys for important things like -- I don't know -- better food.

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Two momentous things happened today:

1) I got a French phone number! I can now text/call anyone in France and make calls to the USA, Canada, and a bunch of irrelevant European countries.

2) I cancelled my Netflix. It was so incredibly difficult to press the confirm button. Especially because if I ever subscribe again, I'll have to pay more than my current $7.99 plan :( But alas, Netflix doesn't even work in France and I don't want to be stuck in my room watching shows all day anyways. Le sigh.