I woke up at seven on the nose and spent a bit of time checking facebook. I was a little unfocused this morning so things were slow. I made sugary coffee and a half a nutella sandwich with my last piece of bread. I then got to work with my second slide for my French presentation. What object represents Paris for me. I picked a metro ticket; that's an object, right? After the slide I moved on to writing my first histories essay. The essay took me almost 43 minutes. Not bad, but definitely longer than yesterday. I added in some new information but I'm not sure why it took me so long. Maybe I was writing slower than yesterday. Oh well. Next was studying the first three pop lectures. I had to go to the Musée Cluny today to make up for missing my histories excursion so I decided to only study the new pop material and save the old material for tomorrow or another day. My pop studying was really frustrating me. Why do I keep forgetting about the second generation immigrants and the Front National? I don't feel like I'm getting anywhere with my studying. There is so much to know and I always feel like I forget most of it the second I'm done studying. This might not go so well. While studying my stomach started to growl so I broke out some m and ms. My second to last package.
Next I started to study for French. My stomach was still growling so I got up and put on some water to boil to make my last box of kraft mac n cheese. I'm doing my best to study for French, and I don't feel too stressed about it. I think that I'm resolved to do my best and to try my best to prepare, but I've accepted the fact that it won't be perfect. I should say a prayer. My pasta finished cooking after a bit and I filled an entire bowl and ate it while I did some more French studying. I did half of that and then finished studying for pop. Hmmmm...is that the order I did my studying in? Maybe it was pop, histories, pop, French. Actually, that sounds more like it. I know that I was studying for French when I made mac n cheese. The study mind has me confused about my own life! Anyway, at a few minutes until one I was thinking about wether to write my second histories essay or go to the museum. I looked at the museum website and saw that it closed at 5:45. I figured that I should go to the museum in enough time to see everything and not be rushed out when it was closing. I speculated it would take me about three hours with travel and everything.
I got dressed (full on winter wear, by the way) and hit the road. It had been raining all day and I figured that nothing had changed. It was raining fairly heavily. I was surprised that I wasn't that wet. I've come to know my neighborhood so well that my instructions literally said: start at Saint-Germain (already about 10 minutes or more from my apartment) and then the instructions went from there. I got to the crosswalk near the Seine and watched a man literally step out into traffic because he didn't want to wait for traffic to clear. The balls on that one! I got to Saint-Germain and started looking for the street I needed to turn on. The market that I had seen when I was in the car with Caroline was in full swing despite the rain. I walked past it and continued past all sorts of sports stores and other high end specialty stores. I finally found the street (it was way farther than I thought it would be) and then followed the directions from the museum.
Christina had told me that the museum was in a Roman bath so I was expecting it to look differently. The building had been converted into a hotel (the Paris version of a city mansion) so the outside looked like it was from the 17/1800s. I went inside and was let in for free with my student ID. I'm really going to miss my student ID. Maybe I should have made that the object I'm going to miss. The architecture is really dark and it looks like a Medieval castle with windy stairways and old wooden doors with doorknobs in the center and everything. Most of the collection was religious art (duh, it was the Middle Ages). I really liked the collection of bas reliefs that still had paint on them. There was a room dedicated to all of the sculptures that had been taken off of Notre Dame. The sculptures were missing heads and the series of King's heads were so weather beaten that most of the faces were missing. I loved them. I also really liked the collection of jewelry. My favorite piece was a flower with stem that was made out of gold. It was so cool looking at Medieval sculptures while staring at a Roman arch! Christina had said that I had to spend time staring at the Woman with a Unicorn. It's actually a series of tapestries that are about the senses. The sixth sense is supposedly our desires. I liked the one with a monkey on a chain the best. The chapel might have been my favorite part. The arches had all been carved to look like individual spider arches. It was a mass of amazing. The museum wasn't originally on my list, but I'm still really glad that I went.
"My Desires." I lifted this from the internet.
I walked home in the rain and was getting more soaked by the minute. In the museum they had given me a plastic bag to carry my umbrella around in so that I wouldn't drip on the floor. I wished that I had a plastic bag for my entire body. My mittens were wet and my jeans were soaked through my fleece tights. My stomach was rumbling while I walked home and I didn't want to eat the rest of my mac n cheese. I'm almost out of food so I need to conserve for tomorrow. I thought about getting a kebab, but I'm fairly broke this week. I thought that I'd just stop and get a baguette. I got the baguette and came home. It was only a few minutes to three. I took the time to eat my baguette and then did my second histories essay. This one only took about 40 minutes. Concerning, but I guess I'll just role with it. I then looked for flights. I found a flight on Air France through a third party site, but it's all in German. The plus side is that the flight is only 135 euros, the downside is that the site is sketchy (it's in German, after all) and my return wouldn't be until after five on the 22nd. I'm also really worried about flying right now. I got an email yesterday saying that flights were cancelled in like sixteen cities around Europe due to bad weather. Fingers crossed.
Next up was finishing studying for French. I just now figured out how to do the conditional. Just now! I guess I would rather learn how to do the conditional a few days before the exam than never learn how to do it at all (si + imparfait , + infinitif with the imparfait stem added/the weird verbs from le futur with the imparfait stems added).
I then took the time to write out two of my cards. Next was some packing. I didn't realize that People's Court had new episodes online. I figured that the season was over with. There's like a week's worth of episodes that I still have to watch! I put on an episode while I cleaned out the remaining two desk doors and then took the boxes out of the closet. I then finished watching another episode while eating nutella, took a shower, painted my nails (black with small clear sparkles that look blue on top of the black and large gray sparkles) and watch more tv. Mom called me on skype a bit after 8:30 so I talked to her. Now it's time for bed...and maybe some dinner. I'm starving again.
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