Benoit's bringing Sexy Back!!

This post, once again is long over due. Sorry, yet again. I'll just start with Monday. I didn't have class last week because the professor was absent. I showed up for history on Monday afternoon and yet again the professor wasn't there. The secretary came up to us and said that they were trying to find a sub. I wonder what's wrong with our professor? We didn't start class until 2:15. The professor, whose name I don't even know, kind of jumped around on subjects. I swear we skipped 10 years in France's history. If the professor isn't there why should we have to sit there for 3 hours confused because we have no idea what she is talking about. We went from the period right after the war to stuff about Ho Chi Minh...it was bizarre. Class was really boring. Katie and I decided to go to this boulangerie after class that has been called the "best" boulangerie in all of Paris. It was by Gare de l'est (a big train station) so it took us a while to get there from school. We got off the metro and walked to the boulangerie to find that it was closed. Seriously, if you're the best boulangerie in all of Paris, why would you be closed on a Monday? It wasn't even a holiday!! We were pretty upset. We walked around for a little bit looking for somewhere to get a snack and ended up at this cafe next to the train station. I got a hot chocolate and it wasn't very hot. We love people watching. It was a lot of fun. We left and then Katie wanted to go to the monoprix so she could buy some stuff for her dinner. While we were in the store I got a text from Renee saying that she had a meeting to go to after work and she wouldn't be back to late so either I could wait for her to get home so we could eat together or I could eat by myself. I decided to eat by myself because I was really hungry.

The next morning, Chaniece and I met Jacqueline and Colie at Musee d'Orsay so we could see the Crime et Chatiment (crime and punishment) exhibit for Costello's class. Of course, there was a super long line. Jacqueline and Colie were already in line so me and Chaniece cut a bunch of people....sorry!! It was so cold and windy and rainy. So much for Paris in the spring time :( Anyways, there was a really long line because Musee d'Orsay is one of the really big museums that is open on Tuesday so everyone goes there because they can't go to the Louvre. Chaniece and I listened to her iPod to keep ourselves entertained and warm because we were obvs dancing....although I think that was more me than Chanience. There were 2 women in front of us from Canada who were really nice and we talked to them for a little while. We finally got in after waiting in line for like 45 minutes. The exhibit was AMAZING. I really, really liked it. There was a guillotine from the 1800's that was super cool. A lot of the paintings were pretty gross looking. There was this one part that had a bunch of black and white photographs that were from some of the first crime scenes in Paris. Well, they weren't the first crime scenes, but they were the first that were photographed. Those were super cool. There was this one painting called Faim, Folie, Crime by Antoine Wiertz that was so crazy! Seriously Google it. It's this woman who just got done breast feeding her baby, but she's crazy so she killed it, chopped off it's leg and is now going to eat the leg. Gross right? It's pretty cool looking. There was also this other painting by David Lynch called "Do you really want to know what I think?" that used a bunch of real materials like jeans and cigarettes in the painting. It was more like a sculpture than a painting. Google that one too. I think I'll go back and look at the exhibit again because it was just that fascinating. Renee and I didn't eat dinner together that night. She took her car to the garage to get it looked at for her vacation.

Wednesday wasn't that great. Theatre was okay but translation was horrible. I felt like such a failure. We got our tests back. I got a 10/20. It's not failing but that's the worst I've done this year. To make matters worse, when we were going over the answers to this packet we had to do about the passe simple (it's a form of the past tense that is usually used in literature) the teacher and the class laughed at me when I was giving my answers because they were wrong. It just wasn't a great day. Katie did 1 point better than me. We decided that because of our crappy grades we needed to go and relax so as soon as class ended we left and jumped on the 14 (my fav line!!!) and headed to The Frog and the British Library, a British pub. I got a pint (which I learned are bigger in Europe than they are in the states) of Ginger Twist, which they brew on site. They make a few beers but this one sounded the best. It was pretty darn good. I also ordered some quesadillas because I needed something to eat if I was going to be drinking. I was expecting it to be a pretty big quesadilla but it wasn't it was like 1 quesadilla cut up into 6 little pieces. So disappointing :( We got there at 5:33....happy hour started at 5:30. That's how we roll. Katie bought my beer because she owed me for the deposit for the hostel that I lost. We left around 8:30ish. Renee wasn't home but there was a roasted chicken in a bag in the fridge but I wasn't sure if I could eat it. So, I didn't. I was up pretty late talking on Skype but it was good. Renee didn't come home until almost 1. Another day we didn't eat dinner together.

Thursday I didn't have school because it was a religious holiday....ascention I think. After a lazy morning I went to FNAC with Colie to try to get some work done. I didn't get much done because I get distracted there so easily. I went back the the apartment and got creeped on by this guy who told me I had a nice ass and then proceeded to follow me for 10 minutes. I was annoyed but he finally realized that I wasn't going to talk to him so he left me alone and walked away. Renee came home around her normal time but then she left after she took Norton for a walk because she was meeting back up with her friends. So, yet again another night where we don't eat together. We haven't eaten together since Sunday when I got back from the Loire Valley :(

Friday was interesting. I went to theatre and before class started someone's cell started ringing and the ring tone was "Sexy Back" by Justin Timberlake. I was dancing in my seat and wondering who's phone it was. Turns out it was Benoit's (our professor's). The only reason I know this is because he ran out of the room to answer his phone. Man, I think I fell in love with him a little more after that. HAHA!!! Class was a lot of fun...it's my favorite class. I walked home with Colie (to my apt) after class because she had nothing to do. When I got back Renee wasn't there but Norton was and he got a haircut!!!! He looks so adorable. It's so short! He looks so different. That night I was supposed to go to this concert with John but that didn't work out because I'm dumb...I really don't want to go into it. Anyways, I ended up going to a movie with Katie and her friend Priscilla. We saw 8th Wonderland (an independent film) at this little movie theatre near the Bastille. I really did not like the movie at all. I thought it was horrible. It was just so bizarre I really didn't know what to think of it. After the movie we went to this bar that Katie called the Porn Bar...which sounded awesome obvs! When we walked it I couldn't for the life of me figure out why she called it the Porn Bar because there were pictures of Jesus and the Virgin Mary on all the walls staring at me. It was crazy. We sat at the bar because it was pretty crowded and ordered our pints. I toasted to Jesus because he was staring at me watching me drink my beer. We left when we finished and I found out that she calls it the Porn Bar because I guess in the bathroom there's bunch of porn on the walls, which is pretty funny. Jesus is on the walls outside but in the bathroom there's porn. HA!! On the train home I met Egyptian Jimmy. That wasn't his full name, don't worry. His name was Jimmy but he's from Egypt so he just calls himself that. He didn't believe me when I told him that I knew where Egypt was. He also asked to see my left hand to see if I was married, then asked for my number so I could give it to my friends and so we could meet up later. Thanks, but no thanks Egyptian Jimmy. He was pretty funny.

Renee left for vacation Saturday morning. I didn't see her at all but she left me a note. That night I met up with John, Colie, Katie, Krista, and Diane at the student cafeteria to grab dinner before we headed out to museum night. Night at the museum is this huge thing that was going on throughout all of Europe. Basically, a bunch of museums are open up super late and it's free for everyone to get in. As we were eating dinner we decided that we were going to try to hit up the Natural History Museum, the Louvre, and the Pompidou. We got to the natural history museum and after a bird poop attack by this crazy bird (none of it got on me, but Diane was hit) and this weird dance troop of 3 people who had soccer balls on their butts, we made it into the museum and it was AMAZING!!!!!! I loved it so much. OMG so sweet. John said that it's the biggest taxidermy collection in the world or something and he wasn't lying. It was insane. There were giraffes and elephants and so many animals. I felt like I was in the Lion King. There were also dinosaurs (bones not taxidermy haha) which was really, really cool. I felt like I was 5 years old and it was such a blast. We left the museum and headed for the Marais (the 4th) to search for a crepe because me and John really wanted one. We finally found a place and it def. hit the spot. Soooo good. We all got back on the metro (minus Katie, who left before crepes because she wasn't feeling well) and got off at Chatelet. We got out of the right exit, which never happens but we got lost trying to find the Pompidou. We walked in the wrong direction. I had a lot of fun though walking around that area. We were trying to make it to the museum by 12 because that's the last time they were letting people into the museum. We sadly didn't make it :( so John, myself and Diane headed home. I got back around 12:30ish and was pretty tired. I started watching Jurassic Park because I was really in the mood to watch it but then I ended up falling asleep around 2.

Today I did all of my homework except my Costello paper and did my laundry. I have a lot to do this week, mostly Costello's paper. I'm dreading it, not gonna lie. That's all for now....I need to go to bed at a decent hour tonight.

Bisous!!

PS....Congrats to my best friend in the world Tracey on your graduation from UW-Madison!!!! I love you so much!!!!

PPS...this was not checked for errors, sorry again