corn cooked in the fire with lime and salt
pancakes
pecan waffles
eggs and toast
tios
john's stirfry!
mmm salmon with honey and soy sauce
nikhil's rice and beans and salsa! with cilantro!
broccoli and carrots with honey and butter and pepper and salt
to go up to the cottage
to have a fourth of july party
to be at a bar watching the final 4
my car
I'm not really that homesick I just want so many things to eat that I don't hate and can cook myself!
Today I went to the sewers of Paris. My professor told us we were going to see other people's poop but I didn't see any. It smelled pretty bad, but not as horrible as you would imagine. The other visit we had this week was to the catacombs. There were just piles and piles of bones stacked up and like all of the femurs were together, and the arm bones, and then they would like put designs in them like hearts , or crosses, or like skull and cross bones shapes. They are what my pictures are from. To be honest, it was like appalling but it was just so weird that you couldn't even acknowledge that these were like actual people. Then, I went to the open body exhibit, the one that Henry later informed me was like a major issue with amnesty international and the human rights treaty? I guess after they died their bodies were sold for 300 dollars to the people who made the exhibit? Its funny because after I went to see it I kept thinking about how cool it would be to have my body displayed like that lol. Maybe that is self-centered, not like as the fat one, but like, just I don't know I don't think I could care less. But I guess it is kind of disrespectful that I had to pay 12.50 to go see the dead bodies of people who were also sold. Of the two though, the catacombs and the open body exhibit I would be much more appalled at the thought of my body being in the catacombs, and open to tours. Seriously, people try to steal the bones like all the time too, when we left the catacombs they searched our purses and behind the searcher there were like piles of bones that had been confiscated already that day from people who were trying to steal them! There were like 4 skulls even in that pile!
Open Body though was really cool even if it was kind of expensive and evidently immoral. When John saw it in chicago evidently there were like fetuses and a pregnant woman cross sectioned and an obese person so you could see how his fat like infringed on his heart function. The version I saw was significantly toned down from that. The images of people without their skin, like riding bikes and stuff so you could see their musculature that they used in their promotional ads were like the most boring part. As soon as you got in there was a body that like, someone had laid down and then cut 1 cm cross sections all the way up. They like replace water in the body with plastic so it stays about the same size and you can still see everything. I was so proud of my french that I could understand everything that was written in the exhibits but then was like put back down to size when we went to the sewers. The man had I guess a very heavy southern accent and I swear he thought it was funny becuase he talked SO FAST. He was nice, but geez. I like tried really hard for the first half and understood most of it but then just got to tired. It sucks that no one can understand me, I like have been speaking so little french lately becuase it is just like so lame when you think you are doing such a good job and then whoever your talkign to just straight up turns around and says ummm i didnt understand a word she just said. i think my french is getting worse.
I also need to stop taking naps! I am getting on such a bad cycle. Food-wise too, although I just ate an entire pineapple and then broke down and got some of that salmon and lentils and a container of tabouli at the monop. It is so good, usually they have this slamon tabouli that i have been wanting to try but tonight they didnt so i got the kind with mustard in it. I think I am starting to like mustard considering i have to eat it like EVERY DAY. They also have this like grape and figue version that looks really good. I go to monop like, more than once a day most days, i think they know who I am. When I get home I would really like to learn how to cook lentils better, in addition to learning how to cook that chocolate mousse that my host mom made that one time, omg it was to die for. She made some more this week but i think it was the cool whip version.
In other news, I got a second interview with clean water! The more I think about it the more I think I wouldn't hate doing that job. Javon is talking about doing it too which would be cool. I mean, its more money than waitressing and closer to using my degree at least. I have anther interview with greencorps on wednesday at 1 am. My interview with the law firm, I think it was okay, I really think that the position wont be open when I get back and they wanted to meet me instead of just doing a video second interview kind of thing. He got like really defensive when I asked if he thought the position would stay open. So whatever, well see, I'll email him when I get back like he said to. I think I would truly hate that job, but it would be so good for my resume, and like 9-5 for the most part. I think it would make me really excited about going to law school to like get out of that sort of environment.
I think thats all thats really new. By this time next week I will be into my spring break!
Friday April 10th through Tuesday april 14th- Arles and Montpellier with Amine and Morgane
Wednesday the 15th- John is here!
Thursday the 16th- Normandy
Friday and Saturday the 17th and 18th- Prague
Sunday the 19th- Berlin
Monday the 20th- day in Paris
Tuesday- John leaves :(
Wednesday the 22- Monday the 27- Italy with kaitlin!
Then the next weekend alisha will be here, and two weeks after that Samantha will be! I think the end here is going to be so hard just having like nothing to look forward to except like going home and freaking out about jobs and law school.
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