Friday night I watched my first French film, Lola. LOVED IT. I stayed home with my host family and decided to watch it even though I wouldn’t understand half of it. The movie was very appropriate for my age and although I didn’t know what was going on at times, I enjoyed it!
Today…let me just start by saying that we walked EVERYWHERE!
First, me, Michele, Alex, and Uko met at the Catacombs at noon. Well Uko was late, but he somehow managed to find us after we got out of the Catacombs. The Catacombs is like an underground cemetery without coffins and there are bones and skulls stacked everywhere. It felt like the tunnels of bones were endless. And it wasn’t like they were just thrown in piles, the bones were stacked extremely neat. We couldn’t use flash when we took photos so we did our best to get some good pictures. After climbing 83 stairs to get out of the Catacombs we exited in a place far away from the entrance. We didn’t expect to exit on some random street, but we found a metro and went back to a really good Boulanger that was near the Catacombs. After Uko found us we went off to explore another part of Paris. We decided to go to the cemetery in Montparnasse. It was beautiful. There were extremely old tombs dating back to the early 1800s and there were some from just the early 2000s.
After being around so much death, we decided we should go to the Jardin du Luxembourg for some colorful scenery and to see a happier place. The park was beautiful and so was the Palace. The sun was out and it made the day not as cold. It was wonderful sitting outside the Palace by the pond and having the sun on my face. I could have slept there all day. Uko then left us to go see a movie and me and Michele then went to go to the Eiffel tower. Another fantastic idea! We stopped and took a picture of the Sorbonne along the way. Sitting on the bench in front of the Ecole Militaire and watching the kids play soccer with the Eiffel tower in the back was relaxing and peaceful. We sat and talked for a while and then we took a few pictures with the tower and then we left and tried to find Rue Cler but we instead ran into the place where Napoleon is buried. We had to pay to get into that so we instead walked around the Musee de l’Armee. After we walked through that we walked all the way to the Arc de Triompe. Along the way we saw a bride and groom taking pictures on the most beautiful bridge in Paris with the Eiffel tower and sunset in the background! Later on our walk we saw a motorcyclist slide and hit another scooter. Both of the people were ok but I have never seen so many people run to help another person. It was weird to see the accident coming and knowing that I couldn’t stop it. But he wasn’t going too fast and he got up on his own.
As we walked to the Arc de Triompe, it was very crowded and it seemed like it took us 45 minutes to get there from the time that I had spotted it at the end of the street and said “Let’s walk there!” ha! They had the Arc de Triompe closed for a special ceremony which looked like for war veterans. It was very interesting and stayed to watch some of it then we left. It felt soooo good to sit down on the ride home in the metro. It was a long day but we saw A LOT of Paris and I enjoyed this beautiful day in Paris. J
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