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This post is going to be really boring. Stop reading now.

I'm going to a concert with the Accent center tonight so I'm writing this post at 5:06 pm. A long, long time ago before the Practicum started we were allowed to sign up for some optional cultural excursions. It was so long ago that my mom was still in Paris when I signed up. I chose to go to a classical music concert and to go to a crepe dinner. The crepe dinner isn't until November, but the concert is tonight. I'm going to see Julia Fisher (violin) accompanied by Yulianna Avdeeva (piano) perform Bach's Sonata BWV 1016, Prokofiev Sonata, and Brahmas' Scherzo for violin and piano tonight at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Super fancy. Since I knew that I had the concert to go to I planned a very light homework day.

So on with my actual day so far. I had French at 8:30 this morning, and my 7:30 wake up call came too soon. I hate getting up when it's dark outside. I wore my boat pants today because I was just too tired to get dressed. I got to school and life carried on as per usual. I actually talked more in class today, and knew several answers that the other students didn't know. I pronounced them all wrong, but my professor got the point. I tripped over the word "vacance" while trying to say "bonne vacance" out of nowhere. Our class is working on chapter 11: Voyage en France. The chapter is filled with pictures of places that I've already been in Paris. It's kinda like the third dimension to know that the life I'm living is being advertised in a book. I did learn, however, that the gargoyles on the outside of Notre Dame are to divert rain away from the building. During class my professor asked me about architecture. She asked me what I thought about the pyramids in front of the Louvre and the Pompidou Centre. I was able to answer her in somewhat complete sentences while only using the word bizarre twice.

During the break I went downstairs to check the mail. My mom sent me a pretty pink postcard. It's pink with white dots all over it that says "miss you" on the front. She even put an extra stamp on the pink envelope because it has flowers on it. So sweet. She also sent me some colored hair ties claiming they're from my bedroom at home. I've never seen them before, but I assume she wouldn't lie about something so mundane. It was nice to get a mushy card from her.

After French got out, five minutes late I might add, I went downstairs to print my histories monument analysis. I turned it in when class started. Today we talked about Robespierre and Napoleon's reforms. I took a copious amount of notes. After class Morgan asked Christina what we were doing tomorrow doing our excursion. The syllabus says that we are supposed to do our Invalides scavenger hunt during class time. It turns out that Christina is not going to be there, but is letting us go whenever we want. Since Morgan and I already went tomorrow I plan on staying home to work on my portion of the project.

After class got out I went to the boulangerie to get a baguette. I'm out of food, and I didn't feel like buying groceries. I went to the boulangerie behind my apartment because the good one on the corner is closed today. The same woman that is always there was working today. She seemed in a good mood so I smiled at her and made a comment about always buying baguettes. She asked me if I eat cheese with my baguette, and I said no that they were delicious on their own. Look at me making conversation in French.

I came home to work on my French composition and write some more for my history scavenger hunt. I was struggling to fucus today, but I managed to get some ideas down for both assignments. They're muddled ideas (I'm pretty sure that my French compositon is terrible), but I still have time to work on them tomorrow. I just barely finished doing homework before I came to write to you. I'm going to use my last few minutes before I leave for the concert at 6:45 with Iza to make myself some ramen and engage in watching some bad television. I'll update you tomorrow on how the concert went.