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Soooo... brief (or not-so-brief) weekend re-cap

Thursday night I went to Paris Social club (un autre temp) and saw Steve Aoki. He's insane. I remember seeing him the tuesday before I came to paris at a club in LA, so it was sort of surreal being in a completely different place, going to a club, and seeing the same dj. oddly familiar i guess. Janet and I taught some of the frenchies around us how to make the "LA" sign with your hands and we helped Steve Aoki crowd surf. Haha, it was a good night!

Friday I started the day by meeting up with some friends to see the Catacombs. It was spooky. We climbed down a long spiral staircase to get underground and from then on it felt like we were winding through a maze of precisely arranged skeletons and skulls. In some parts the ceiling was so low you had to duck, and in other parts water would drip on your head. Creeeepy. We finally made it out, went to a japanese restaurant and then headed over to Montparnasse. Montparnasse is Paris' only skyscraper. It has fifty-six stories and from the top we were able to see the sunset and watch all of paris' lights turn on.

Saturday, I went to luxembourg gardens to get some reading done. Yeah, lame...we've reached the study part of "study abroad" booo. I still have 300 pages to go in "lost illusions" ahhhH! Afterwards we went to a cafe and ended up spending the rest of our time fantasizing over desserts instead of actually getting any work done.

Hier, I went to the marche and the boulangerie. At night I think I finally did the most touristy thing possible in paris by taking a night cruise along the seine river. But in my defense it was only 5 euros and ...well c'est tout!

I'm really excited because of all the trips I've been planning. In two weekends, I'm going to Bordeaux. During my semester break (10 days) I'm going to Italy. and in November, I'm going to Berlin. And possibly Barcelona squeezed somewhere in there too. That's all I have planned for now. Part of me feels like I should travel to as many places as possible, because I'm here and for all I know this might not happen again...and then the other part of me realizes that I'm also only living in paris for 3 more months, so I need time to relax and transform from a tourist to a local.

C'est tout!
Je vais ecriver plus tard!
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