The past week has been mostly relaxing in different parks, enjoying the sun and pic-nics followed by calm nights at Jen's and my place with the girls. It's been a really good week!
After père lachaise we went out a big group, some old members and some new. Pre-party at our place before we headed for Mix club in Montparnasse (again). It was as good this time as last time, but it always is a good night when you are out with a big group of awesome people! Lots of dancing, laughing and fun.
Friday wasn't too rough, essay in school, easy topic: What's your favourite activity? Dancing, what else?!
Which brings us to the night, I went out with a friend, tried the supposedly best crêpe place in Paris (rue Moufftard), took a walk and then headed to a salsa club! Hell yeah, dancing to 4.30 in the morning!
Saturday I must admit I was a little tired and worn out from two nights out with little sleep, after all I'm not 18 anymore! We managed to get out though, sat in the Luxembourg park for a while and then went home to a calm night of watching Avatar. I hadn't seen it before and I must say that even though it was predictable I loved it! I really like the idea of a world where everything is connected and lives in harmony with each other. Until us humans ruin it all that is... I believe in one sense that the earth and all its creatures are connected but, again, technology, capitalism and consumerism among other factors have contributed to the loss of interaction between the earth and its living inhabitants, mainly humans. In any case, I like the film.
Sunday me and Julia tried the best falafel in Paris, namely "some place with a massive queue" in Le Marais. We ate it in a little cute courtyard enjoying the warm weather, before we went and visited Place des Vosges. This is where you can visit Victor Hugo's house, which we didn't do unfortunately, but I'm here for a while so I think I'll have time to swing by... In the evening, I watched I love you, man! with Helena, Jenna and Julia. Cute film, rather funny actually.
Monday I went with Julia to try to book a train ticket to Barcelona since flying obviously isn't working at the moment. There are so many people stuck in Paris, I feel sorry for them, well not really, the city has compensated with giving them gorgeous weather! We finished that and decided to climb Notre Dame. 400 stairs! 400. It was the exercise of the day.
In the backgound you can see Tour Saint-Jacques in Châtelet and far back you have Sacre-Coeur.
We then met up with Helena and took a promenade to Parc des Plantes, where they had animals! You had to pay to see them though.... Which we didn't. There are so many nice parks in Paris! We met up with Madeleine, Jenna, Mika, Joseph and two other girls and, again, just enjoyed the sunshine. Thank you Paris for the wonderful weather!
Yesterday we went to the exhibition of Yves Saint Laurant and it was amazing. Definitely worth seeing, lots of beautiful dresses and history of fashion.
"Chanel gave women freedom, Saint Laurant gave them power."
Petit Palais
True that! The smokings, jumpsuits and masculine cuts were very fashion forward and emancipating for women and fashion is still inspired by his creations and his creativity today. Go and see it, but be there early, as in 9.30 early if you want to limit the waiting time to about 30 min. Be there after 11 and be prepared to wait two hours. While you are in though, the exhibition isn't too crowded which makes the experience oh so much more enjoyable. We followed the exhibition with a stroll down Champs Elysée, tanning in the park, I got burnt(!) and a shopping spree in the area around Reaumur-Sébastopol, which is supposedly the hooker streets in Paris and I can surely vow for that! Honestly, me and Madeleine thought that we had found all these little cute boutiques when we one night were walking to the show of Gaultier, so we wanted to check them out when they were open. The shops were not boutiques, they were cheap market clothes in a storage massively overpriced. 50 year old nasty hookers were spread out every 10 metres and disgusting old men staring at you as you walk by. EW EW EW, don't ever go there!! I cannot believe those hookers make a living because they were nasty, or as we say in swedish, så jävla skabbiga!!! So to comfort ourselves we went to Châtelet instead. I just don't have the envie to buy things anymore. I don't know whats happened to me, I'm just not myself, I see something I want and I don't want it. Doesn't make sense? I know...
Time to do some studying before my second visit to musée d'Orsay! Love it!
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