My So Called Parisian Life: Animals Galore

It's been quite a week! So last weekend we went up to Monmartre and saw Sacre Coeur and walked around a bit. It was the first nice sunny day and we wanted to take advantage! It was really windy up there though, but that was okay, because the views were incredible.

On Thursday, it literally was like the worst day ever. So the class I have is at the campus an hour north of Paris and obviously I have it at 8:30am. So I leave my apartment around 6:40am and the metro ride to the station is about 20 minutes since I have to switch lines to get there. The train after that is the one thats 51 minutes out to campus and it's so so so confusing because the line splits. So you really have to pay attention to which line you're getting on. So I get on, and what do you know? The train I was on was going the wrong way. So I got off, was completely lost, and couldn't figure out how to get back. I looked at the schedule and saw that now I wouldn't get to class until 9:30am so of course my teacher wasn't going to let me in, so i just hopped on the train to go back on. Oh and I forgot to mention that it was raining, so when I was walking up the stairs I slipped and fell and people just walked over me. I guess it doesn't matter if you're at Penn Station in NYC or a metro station in Paris! People are ___. (you fill in the blank). I walked back in to my apartment around 8:45am and obviously had to call home because I was all in a tizzy even though it's a 6 hour time different. Sometimes you just need your mommy!

Friday we decided to go to Bercy Village which is a cute little strip with shops and pet stores. How do you make your crappy day better? Play with puppies obviously! So we went into the pet store and got to play with some puppies which we decided to name Francine. Seems appropriate. Too bad we couldn't keep her though. Then when we were at Starbucks we saw a pigeon with its foot missing on one leg so we named it pegleg. After we had our fill of walking around the super tiny, but cute park, we decided to go to the Eiffel Tower and watch the lights come on. Then we went to a really good Italian place that we like on the Champs Elysées.

Then yesterday, we had the windows open because it was gorgeous out, while we did some homework. The lady across the hall from us has a cat and they were outside tending to her window garden. We heard the cat meowing so I poked my head out the window and saw it staring up at me. So of course, we tried to get it to come closer so we could pet it, but instead, it jumped through the window and ran and hide under my bed! Oops... But the lady never even came over to see where her cat went! So I tried to coerce it out from my bed and tried to pet it a bit but it just hissed and scratched me. So we didn't really have an option to get it out until it went out on it's own. I think it was only hiding for like 5 minutes, but still.

Today's been a fun-filled day of reading, papers, and homework. This next week will be a good week though since I only have class on Monday and Thursday!