Uneventful.

So not too much has happened since last weekend, I guess. Sunday we went to an open air market, which was really cool. It as all fresh fruit and fresh fish and ... fresh rabbit? Yeah, whole rabbits on ice.... There were also a lot of little stands where you could buy precooked food. I bought the most amazing mango, some figs, and hummus and pita :) I also saw a stand with a bunch of homemade pasta, and saw mine and Nick's future. They need some competition and we make some awesome pasta from scratch. There's a market down the street from my house that I need to get to one of these days. Such a struggle to get out of bed though haha, especially when it's currently 46 degrees outside. It's only October I may not survive this winter. After the open air market, I went with a few of the girls to the Bastille area, which was really cool. There's a huge pillar in the center of the roundabout as a kind of memorial to the French Revolution. I had to explain to some of the other girls what the Bastille was/what happened.... We went to this thrift store that is apparently amazing. It's three stories of old clothes and smells weird and I'm sure is full of germs. I'm sure there was good stuff there, but I'm sure you're surprised to hear, I was kind of freaking out haha. I did kind of look through all the floors, but I ended up back near the front door pretty quickly lol. It was overwhelming and there was a reason people gave most of those clothes away. One of the floors was entirely Converse shoes. Would have been cool if they weren't all used.... I went home after that because I had some homework to do. In the Metro station where I switched trains there was a small orchestra warming up. I swear you never know what you're going to see. The train was super crowded and there was a screaming baby who would not stop crying. The train couldn't have moved slower haha. Then, two other kids I know got on the same car as me at some point, so random!

School this week has been OK so far. I forgot to do some homework, so I did it right before class so it wasn't very good. It was only 4 lines about an article though, so I might be OK haha. For that class, we have to do a 5-10 minute speech about a topic in the news. I don't think I have enough vocabulary in my French lexicon for that to be possible. I have another month, so hopefully that will be enough time to practice. We'll see. In my French class yesterday we had to do mock interviews and then present them to the class, which was awful. My partner was from Mexico so he has another accent plus French so I really had a hard time understanding him. Kind of like the Ukrainian kid in my other class. And most of the kids from Asia, too. Parisian French is hard enough. Anyway, it was embarrassing. And then some people didn't even have to go because we ran out of time! Not fair. Then in my art class we watched a video again, and the teacher stopped it literally every 20 seconds to talk more about something. I was like, why didn't you just make a slideshow of pictures you wanted to talk about and then do that instead? A 25 minute video turned into an hour.

Last night we watched the saddest movie ever. Here it is called "A Winter in Central Park," but it's actually called "Love and Other Impossible Pursuits." I did understand most of it, though. Kind of wish I hadn't because it was so depressing. Then I came up to my room and tried to plan two trips. One to the south of France, and the other to Brussels and Bruges. Hopefully other people want to come haha. But if I did successfully go by myself I would give myself a prize or something lol. Tonight is cooking night, so I have to go make Caesar dressing! After I go running. (If I write that here, then hopefully my few readers will hold me to that and I'll actually go). I did realize, though, that I think the reason I'm semi-sad sometimes is because of the lack of endorphins in my life. Working on the remedy!! haha.

Au revoir!