U.S.ofA.

how excited am I to come home? -very.
how sad am I to leave paris? -extremely.
I got to watch the sunrise over beautiful paris one last time this morning on my way to the airport.
I may have teared up a lot bit. And that will just continue.
I love you paris.
But I miss you america.




BE HOME AT 7 ARIZONA!

j'aime le dimanche.

Sunday's are the best in Paris. Whether I spend them alone sitting by the Seine, or with all the girls getting crepes, I love sundays.
Church was really great today. I understood MAJORITY of what was being said. I guess it was sort of cheating that three of the speakers were americans without french accents.. Still counts for me.
Afterwards, Hollie wanted to celebrate her birthday, because its on wednesday but we'll all be outta here.
So we started by walking to creperie genia. Lots of the girls always rave about this place, 5 euro's for a panini, crepe, and a drink. Thats an amazing price.
I got mozzorella et tomate panini,
nutella, banane crepe,
and a bottled water. -the one word that has given me the most trouble for three months.
Then we went over to place de la concord to ride the ferris wheel! It was put up last week and we've been dying to go on it. And I loved it. Every piece of it.
Great views, and good friends. Paris is so EXcItiNg! [by the way, we saw him on our trek over. Yes, that's the third time. Whaaaat are the chances.]
We got some really good pictures with the ferris wheel in the background.. I mean a tour bus of asians waving at us.
From the ferris wheel we saw what HAD to be a christmas market going up the champs elysee, so we HAD to go there. So happy. I finally got something that I've been looking everywhere for. And we saw a couple french santa's, so it was a good time.
Then we decided to hit up the orangerie museum. Its a tiny little quaint place with a couple rooms with huge paintings by monet. Amazing, they were beautiful. And downstairs they had an exhibit also, with alll the artists that we've learned during the semester in our art history class. I was exctied about that.
From there me and maddie went to see the museum d'art et descriptions? something like that. We have just always called it the fashion museum. Its in one of the wings of the louvre, and was pretty interesting. I liked it, but we just did it pretty quick because it was closing, oh and also the fact that I have two finals tmrw that I have not even begun to study for. Kill me? twodaysleftinparis.

cat.

sunday.
monday.
tuesday.
wednesday.

one.
two.
three.
four.
un.
deux.
trois.
quatre.

crepeful for crepes.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
[at least all you americans.]
Today is my favorite holiday ever. And I missed the best part of the tradition. Being home with my entire family, eating my heart out on all the stuffing I can get my hands on.
Instead;
I dressed up like a french person and romped the streets of paris taking tourist pictures and filling up on crepes.
I guess twelve of us went together today.
12 perfect frenchies.
striped shirts, berets,&mustaches.
We had a little paris class then headed out, starting at a carrousel by hotel de ville, where we go to school every single day. They have carrousels everywhere in paris, and this was my first time getting on one, baguette in hand.
We hit up all the main sites.

• Hotel de Ville
• Notre Dame
• Love Lock bridge
• Eiffel tower
• Arc du Triomphe
• Louvre

I might be forgetting something.
For dinner we had to have traditional french food while we were dressed the part, obviously.
We went to a real life creperie. as opposed to fake life.
I loooove crepes, and crepes as a meal? I couldn't ask for anything better.
I've been to creperies here, but my french teacher &Daryl both suggested Montparnasse for real crepes. So we tried it! We went to Creperie Josseline. A verrry cute place, packed with frenchies enjoying their killer pancakes.
We ate our crepes, held hands, and went around saying everything we are grateful for. We went around the circle many times.
I LOVE this group of girls, every single one of them! I can't believe I'm actually leaving soon. It will be so different not to be with everybody everyday anymore, since the past three months have its been impossible not to see all these girls. I really am so lucky and sooo grateful for this entire experience and I know it would not be the same without the people here.
iloveparis&ialwayswill. But five days and I'M COMING HOME!

spinach, bacon, egg, &creme round one.{thanksgiving feast}

go to prague: CZECH!

This weekend may have been framed around making czech jokes (sounds the same as check, if you're slow.), every single second. Of course I loved it. And tried to reference it with everything.
I'm so freakin' busy studying my a** off right now, and packing but I might go crazy if I don't take a minute for some fun. And yes, fun = blogging.
Prague was SUCH a good time. And a great ending to our last trip all together, 14 of us went, and there's 25 girls in my group, so we were only a few short of everybody. It was a perfect getaway for the weekend. And our LAST one before this weeks insane finals. [why we have finals in PaRIS?] We did some great bonding on the terrace that our hostel had. That was my favorite part of prague.. maybe. I just love terraces.
We climbed to the top of Prague where the castle is. Since the french boys haven't been kissing us, this is the action we got this weekend. And yes we made this one laugh too.
Crackin' smiles guard after guard, country after country.

The entire city was beautiful. This was an amazing spot. This is on Charles Bridge, and probably the most famous image of Prague out there. Czech google, you'll get this picture twelve million times.
We were crossing back over it around sunset, and this picture pretty much speaks for itself, it was insanely gorgeous.

We climbed the clock tower too. That's the most famous landmark in Prague, or so tour-guide Tom told us. It was incrediblllleeee from up there. All you see is these red rooftops, one after the other, and colored buildings lining the streets. It was so pretty!

Here it is for now, I have to get back to studying.

sunday

We sang this in relief society today as our closing song. I've had it stuck in my head the rest of the day. And it always reminds me of efy.
Anyways, I came home to listen to it and pulled up this youtube video of it and I know somebody in it! Our friend's from mexico's daughter is in it around the 2 minute mark. So ironic.

czech republic.

Today I started stressing out. Realizing all the ish I need to get done not only for school here, but also just plain for PaRIS. I have so many things that I still want to see, pictures I want to take, and food I want to eat.
Il n'y a pas assez de temps dans le journée- there is not enough time in the day.
But today I did got to the hotel des invalides. And in the church, where napoleon's tomb is. So I got that done.
And then we all went over to the Lee's apartment to make t-shirts for keeps. Such a good time when we're all together.

if you don't hear from me in the next couple days its because
I'll be here.

a little place called Prague.
Don't know what to expect there, but I'm dressing warm. . there could very well be snow, yikes.
There are 14 of us going, sounds like a mess, but should be exciting and we'll have a ton of fun.
I'm super stoked, and we've had this planned for a really long time.
And then once I'm back, I'll have eleven days left in Paris. That is so unbelievable.

Ratatouille for dinner.
+beet/endive salad &creme oeuf for dessert.
14 days.

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