Dear Mom,
I just cleaned and rearranged my room. I thought you would be proud.
Love,
Lauren
Friday, September 10, 2010
so anyways...
time to continue my Paris story.
so we ended on Friday right before the bike tour started, and I highly recommend the fat tire bike tour for anyone going to Paris, Berlin, London, or ...dang I forgot the last city. But after walking around all day this bike tour was amazing! We started near the Eiffel tower and rode our bike's all around the city WITH traffic. It was pretty strange to be driving a bike next to a car, not that the cars here are much bigger. We saw so many big monuments and castles (i don't actually know what they were but they were all really cool!) and we stopped at Notre Dame which was incredible. Thank goodness for the hunchback story or they would have torn it down! Next we stopped at the "best ice-cream in Paris". It wasn't my favorite cause they didn't have normal flavors and the other flavors weren;t in English, but hey. By this point in my European travels, I'm kind of used to eating mystery food. So after that we continued riding, and we made another pit stop at Le Louve. I think this museum was the biggest and prettiest building in Europe so far. It was so huge and had details on every inch of the walls. Everything down the the concrete was pretty. It's something you should have on your bucket list if you haven't seen it yet. After spending about 20 minutes there, we continued until we got to a dock. Part of the Fat tire bike tour is a boat ride and it was so cool but so cold! They gave us wine (sorry mom) and we rode around the river looking at even more amazing buildings. The lights at night in Paris make the city look so pretty at night. Fun Fact: the Eiffel tower sparkles on the hour, and it was so amazing. Another funny thing about the boat tour was the native Paris people that hang out on the banks. I saw a few people peeing into the river, someone mooning us, quite a few people making out "french style" which is many levels about what American's think of as "French" style. PDA is not of the slightest concern to anyone in that country. There were also a few french people sitting on bridges yelling to us to "Go back to our own country! You are nt welcome here!" Our tour guide insisted that the yelling could be blamed on alcohol/drugs.
After the boat tour ended, we biked back to the shop we started at and my group went to meet Mark at the Eiffel tour. Our oat was late so by the time we got back the Subways were closed and so we were forced to take a taxi. Lukily, Mark was in the car because if we had gotten into a taxi with that man who knows where we would have ended up at... Mark said he was a crazy man. Never the less we got back to Mark's we all fell alseep so fast. (Remember: I had slept one hour the night before, and we got up at 4:30... it had been a loonngggg day). I had such a good night's sleep that night :)
I'm in the middle of reading my pathophys. chapter which is a glorious 60 pages long, so I'm going to continue that, but when I take another break I'll continue with Saturday in Versailles :)
so we ended on Friday right before the bike tour started, and I highly recommend the fat tire bike tour for anyone going to Paris, Berlin, London, or ...dang I forgot the last city. But after walking around all day this bike tour was amazing! We started near the Eiffel tower and rode our bike's all around the city WITH traffic. It was pretty strange to be driving a bike next to a car, not that the cars here are much bigger. We saw so many big monuments and castles (i don't actually know what they were but they were all really cool!) and we stopped at Notre Dame which was incredible. Thank goodness for the hunchback story or they would have torn it down! Next we stopped at the "best ice-cream in Paris". It wasn't my favorite cause they didn't have normal flavors and the other flavors weren;t in English, but hey. By this point in my European travels, I'm kind of used to eating mystery food. So after that we continued riding, and we made another pit stop at Le Louve. I think this museum was the biggest and prettiest building in Europe so far. It was so huge and had details on every inch of the walls. Everything down the the concrete was pretty. It's something you should have on your bucket list if you haven't seen it yet. After spending about 20 minutes there, we continued until we got to a dock. Part of the Fat tire bike tour is a boat ride and it was so cool but so cold! They gave us wine (sorry mom) and we rode around the river looking at even more amazing buildings. The lights at night in Paris make the city look so pretty at night. Fun Fact: the Eiffel tower sparkles on the hour, and it was so amazing. Another funny thing about the boat tour was the native Paris people that hang out on the banks. I saw a few people peeing into the river, someone mooning us, quite a few people making out "french style" which is many levels about what American's think of as "French" style. PDA is not of the slightest concern to anyone in that country. There were also a few french people sitting on bridges yelling to us to "Go back to our own country! You are nt welcome here!" Our tour guide insisted that the yelling could be blamed on alcohol/drugs.
After the boat tour ended, we biked back to the shop we started at and my group went to meet Mark at the Eiffel tour. Our oat was late so by the time we got back the Subways were closed and so we were forced to take a taxi. Lukily, Mark was in the car because if we had gotten into a taxi with that man who knows where we would have ended up at... Mark said he was a crazy man. Never the less we got back to Mark's we all fell alseep so fast. (Remember: I had slept one hour the night before, and we got up at 4:30... it had been a loonngggg day). I had such a good night's sleep that night :)
I'm in the middle of reading my pathophys. chapter which is a glorious 60 pages long, so I'm going to continue that, but when I take another break I'll continue with Saturday in Versailles :)
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
NyQuil
Don't get me wrong, being here is probably the coolest thing thats ever happened in my life thus far but I'm not gonna lie... I wouldn't want to live like this forever. There are way too many schedules that you have to stick too and if you change the plan even the slightest bit, you could screw up your entire day and end up sprinting for 4 trains in one day
Example:
I went to Paris last weekend and it was so much fun! I got a whoppin 1 hour of sleep the night before so I was pretty exhausted when I got there at 11, but we had too much to do to take a nap. We went to the Pasteur Institute first (which was the main reason we went), and it was pretty cool if your into how his experiments worked in all, but I was really just way too tired to care that day. Even my teacher fell asleep. After that our group went down to the main shopping quarters of Paris. I'm blanking on the name of it right now, but Mark, my friend we were staying with, told us it was THE place to be. Personal opinion: over-rated, but hey. That night we had a bike tour scheduled for 7 and we were supposed to meet at the Eiffel Tower. It was about 3 o'clock. Mark told us we should take the Metro, but being the tight wad poor American college students we were, we convinced him that walking was a good idea. He was hesitant, but we walked. It ends up, Mark was right because about 6 o'clock we started to get worried that we were never going to find the tallest monument in the city. We found a map just in time and realized we had walked to complete opposite direction for a good 2 and a half hours and we were now scared we were going to be late to this non- refundable bike tour. Now just like everything else in life, when you need something, you cant find it. Metro stations are ALL over Paris, but we could not find a single one. But just in time we found a different train line that could take us to the tour. We arrived at 6:57, just in time to go get a ham and cheese sandwhich for dinner :)
That story only covers up until sunday evening, but unfortunately, I took Nyquil about 20 minutes ago and can hardly see my computer screen, which brings me to one last point. everyone here is sick. everyone has a cold and its getting pretty annoying. I just ran out of NyQuil so Mom if your reading this and you havent sent that package, please send day/NyQuil. but hopefully everyone here will get better soon. We just had our first test today and I can't say how I did quite yet, but I'll probably know tomorrow!
I'm also not travelling this weekend so I can catch up on all my studying so I'll be able to catch up on all my stories. My bad for not getting half way through this one... stupid cold-meds...
but before I type things so poorly that you can't understand, its 1 o'clock here which means early bedtime for me today! whoo!!
I swear I'll update more no worries :) Au revoir!
Example:
I went to Paris last weekend and it was so much fun! I got a whoppin 1 hour of sleep the night before so I was pretty exhausted when I got there at 11, but we had too much to do to take a nap. We went to the Pasteur Institute first (which was the main reason we went), and it was pretty cool if your into how his experiments worked in all, but I was really just way too tired to care that day. Even my teacher fell asleep. After that our group went down to the main shopping quarters of Paris. I'm blanking on the name of it right now, but Mark, my friend we were staying with, told us it was THE place to be. Personal opinion: over-rated, but hey. That night we had a bike tour scheduled for 7 and we were supposed to meet at the Eiffel Tower. It was about 3 o'clock. Mark told us we should take the Metro, but being the tight wad poor American college students we were, we convinced him that walking was a good idea. He was hesitant, but we walked. It ends up, Mark was right because about 6 o'clock we started to get worried that we were never going to find the tallest monument in the city. We found a map just in time and realized we had walked to complete opposite direction for a good 2 and a half hours and we were now scared we were going to be late to this non- refundable bike tour. Now just like everything else in life, when you need something, you cant find it. Metro stations are ALL over Paris, but we could not find a single one. But just in time we found a different train line that could take us to the tour. We arrived at 6:57, just in time to go get a ham and cheese sandwhich for dinner :)
That story only covers up until sunday evening, but unfortunately, I took Nyquil about 20 minutes ago and can hardly see my computer screen, which brings me to one last point. everyone here is sick. everyone has a cold and its getting pretty annoying. I just ran out of NyQuil so Mom if your reading this and you havent sent that package, please send day/NyQuil. but hopefully everyone here will get better soon. We just had our first test today and I can't say how I did quite yet, but I'll probably know tomorrow!
I'm also not travelling this weekend so I can catch up on all my studying so I'll be able to catch up on all my stories. My bad for not getting half way through this one... stupid cold-meds...
but before I type things so poorly that you can't understand, its 1 o'clock here which means early bedtime for me today! whoo!!
I swear I'll update more no worries :) Au revoir!
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