This blog post probably won’t be as exciting as the last few have been because, IF you can believe it, I stayed in only one country for the ENTIRE weekend. What? Yes. I know. Crazy.
Hahaha, I still had a pretty great week, though, and I would loooove to tell you about it, of course!
To start things off, this week was cold. It has dropped down to -5 dregrees (C) and that sort of weather was niether expected nor welcomed by anyone in Paris. Well, actually, to be fair, everyone knew it was going to get cold but it’s always a bit surprising to go outside and take a few steps and then all of a sudden realize that it feels like the bones in your face have turned to frozen metal. I didn’t think it was too cold at the beginning of the week because I had just returned from Germany where there was snow everywhere so Paris just felt warm to me. I continued to get up in the mornings and run and everything, but as the week wore on, the cold began to make my head hurt and I began to feel so tired and cranky. I know, there are perfectly happy people in colder places, but there is something about being cold and cranky and then having to take care of a colder and crankier child that just isn’t fun!
I always tell myself (probably because my mom always told me that she tells herself) that running will make me feel better. Even when I don’t reallyyyy want to go, I should go anyways because it is always worth it afterwards. That’s what I kept telling myself on Wednesday, when I was falling apart and so tired after spending the morning with Prune and was developing a migraine. I decided to take a nap, and decide whether or not to run when I woke up. The first two hours of my nap didn’t actually involve sleep though, because my head hurt so bad. I took some IBProfin and went back into my bed and then I was able to sleep for about an hour! When I woke up, I felt a lot better. I still felt sleepy, and my head still hurt, but I felt good because it was the evening and I was going to go back to sleep in just a couple hours and I had no other responsibilies to see to for the rest of the day. I decided to clean my room and wash my bedsheets and then read for a bit before dinner. That night, I slept from 23:00 until 9:30 the next morning, and OH MY GOODNESS I woke up on Thursday feeling so refreshed and not exhausted and ready to go out into the cold and have a good day. I had planned to run that morning, but deciding to sleep instead made my day soooo nice. I guess I realized that running is amazing and makes me feel good but so does sleeping hahah. And I should sleep more. Especially when it is really really cold outside.
Unless I feel like running, of course. :)
This week I got lunch with friends twice! On Tuesday, I went to the Japanese restaurant where Fred and Cecile took me my first week in Paris with Bianca (German), Moein (Iranian) and Jess. It was fun introducing Jess to my friends from my new French class! We spoke in French the entire time so it was good practice AND lots of fun! The food was also sooo good and so inexpensive!
I suppose I should tell you a bit about my new French class because I have only barely skimmed over the subject since I have blogged so much about my weekend trips! I think I have told you that I LOVE my new class and teacher, and that is still very true hahah. Every day I wake up and I get excited to go to class and learn things and see my friends and laugh because our teacher is such a goofball. In my class, there are a lot of Venezualians who are always getting me to speak in Spanish with them and that also makes me very happy! I get to practice some Spanish, which is so nice, but I also get to practice not mixing it up with French because it gets difficult switching back and forth from speaking with Bianca in French and the others in Spanish! They all laugh at me a lot, as I struggle through and speak three languages at once. It makes me laugh too hahah. The only thing that isn’t so happy is how little I can understand of Venezualian Spanish! They have such a thick accent and they speak so fast and it is like moving to Chile all over again hahaha I understood so little at first! Now I have warmed up a bit to their voices and words and can carry a conversation, which is good! They are all such nice people. :D
The other time this week I got lunch with a friend was on Friday, when I met up with Olivia to get sandwiches at the Austrailian cafe where we always used to go for coffee after class. We got some very inexpensive and very delicious sandwiches and talked and stuff for awhile. It was nice spending some time alone with Olivia. I am starting to realize that I like being one-on-one with people more than being in groups. I mean, sometimes it is more fun to be with a group of really fun people, but when you are alone with someone you can really talk to them and give them all your attention. Olivia is such a lovely, polite, and agreeable person, which is kind of strange because she is also such a weirdo. I don’t know how to describe Olivia very well because I don’t think the English language has enough adjectives to fully incapsulate how bizarre and proper this girl is at the same time. She’s a keeper hahaha. And she likes to teach me British things to say. I like that!
On Saturday, Olivia and Jess and I spent a lovely day together and went to Musee de L’Orangerie which is situated in the Luxemburg Gardens. On the metro ride to meet up with them, a group of four guys got onto the same metro train as me and began speaking in Spanish. I listened in, and realized that I completely understood them which was so exciting after always having to try so hard with my Spanish-speaking friends from school. I was starting to wonder why I understood them so well, when I heard one of them say “WEON!” which made me actually grin and gasp out loud which made them all look at me with confused expressions. I smiled and said in Spanish, “I’m sorry, are you Chilean?” and they were like “YEAH!” but then they started teasing me for listening in on their conversations. They were totally joking and we were all laughing, and they asked me where I learned to speak spanish so well and I told them and they thought it was all very cool. They told me I should go get a beer with them, but I told them I had plans and they said they were sad hahah. After a few minutes it was time for me to switch trains and they all said goodbye to me. I couldn’t stop smiling as I walked away. I realized my heart had been beating so fast because I had been nervous about talking to them and tryng to keep my Spanish as fast as theirs. Also, I was so happy to see Chileans! I love those people!
Anyways, when I met up with my friends, we walked around and looked at art and then went to a cafe to pass the time before going back to the same Japonese restaurant we had gone to on Tuesday because Jess really loved it hahah. I am telling you guys, it is really good! We ate our yummy food, shared some green tea ice cream (which they had never tried before!) and then headed down the street to watch a movie. We saw Joy, and it was interesting! We got out of the movies at about 21:30, but we didn’t feel like saying goodbye yet so we decided to go to a youth hostel bar called Belushis that is near where I go to school. Belushi’s was having a live music night, so the three of us sat down at a table and spent a couple more hours laughing and enjoying each other’s company. It was fun because they are both so sillyyyyy!
They are SO weird.
The metro ride home was a bit of an unexpected adventure for me! My train pulled up and as I stepped in, I realized that everyone else on the train was covered in paint and drinking and singing and dancing. So I kind of crashed a metro car party. I stood awkwardly, smooshed up against the door, hoping that no paint or beer would get spilled on me. Everyone was being so loud and crazy and it began to make me laugh. When they saw me laughing, they raised their glasses to me and started to make me try to dance along with them! Thankfully, my stop came up and it was time for me to leave the train and go home to my quiet house and sleepy in my big comfy bed!
Now, it is Sunday and I am at home and on the couch blogging. I wanted to go to a cafe and blog this morning, but I am going to the Eiffel Tower to go ice skating later and I don’t want to go into Paris twice or have to skate with my computer in a backpack!
I have had a really good week, and Prune did too! Apparently she was a bit naughty when I was in Germany, and lost her TV priveliges during the entire week, which made my job a little harder, but also gave us a lot of time for painting! We made a bunch of little animal sculptures and then Prune painted them and gave them to her teachers.
I am only really telling you this because I have this adorable picture of her to post and it needed some foundation.
THE END! See you next week. :D
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