this is the first time i have just really not wanted to blog. it just feels like there is so much to cover. This week was rather uneventful, but the weekend was great. Friday I got up at the crack of dawn and went to Normandy. There I did a tour of the normandy beachs (the tour that john and I were supopsed to do when he was here. i feel so bad because he would have loved it). as soon as i arrived i was starving so i sat down in the first restaurant and ordered a plate of eggs and some bread, and they brought me out FIVE EGGS. these people a few tables down were british and they were just aghast by how many eggs were on my plate. it was so delicious. so then after getting downtown i found my tour which was like a van with these two other couples. By the end of the day i was like in love with the other people on my tour, they were so nice and friendly. and i learned so much, like i wasnt even particularly interested in the history of it until i learned it all. our guide was really sweet she knew literally everything. One of the other guys though, who had broken his ankle falling down the steps in the louvre, knew even more, like he knew everything she knew and then like, how to shoot the gun we were looking at, or the angle of incline of the cliffs. he was great, so nice. the tour was american themed so we went to omaha beach, gold beach? and the american cemetary. then i went to the british cemetary by myself before the tour even left. when we got back i got some salted caramel flavored gelato after dinner. i got to the train station early, my train didnt leave until 8:07 and i went back to the breakfast place to see if i could buy a newspaper and the same british couple was there, they heard me counting my money in english and they started talking to me and they said they couldnt believe how many egg i had been served and that they had thought i was french! which is great, except that i mean they dont speak any french so how would they know. then i was waiting by the track reading my french newspaper and these people from atlanta came up to me and like, as though they were speaking to a deaf child were like, "PARIS, FRANCE, HERE? like pointing to the track and like making train noises and i accidently responded in french then he went over back to his atlanta family and was like yea she says its here...and they kept being like no i think shes wrong, etc, until the mom was like shes not deaf she just cant understand you! lol, so then i went over and in english explained to them like the sign that said they were in the right place and how to compost their tickets. Then when I was walking away one of them said "wow you speak english so well for someone french, thanks!" lol.

    then yesterday i met up with my friend from knitting and we had such a great day. we went to the yarn store and she bought some of the cream silk that i bought for my stocking for her to make a shirt for her pacse with. i am getting kind of worried about how muppety my sweater is looking. the kidsilk haze just seems like it is thread, but to get the like airy feeling that everyone else made in theirs, i think i would have to use some thinner yarn. it just feels like it would be so fragile....but the things that were knitted up in the kidsilk haze were like, i mean they were  light and delicate but you could wear it without breaking it for sure. there is a thinner yarn that is the same blend as the yarn that i am using now at the cat'laine and i would only need 3 skeings of it but its still like nearly 8 euros a skein... plus i am kind of far along with the yarn i have now. I dunno, i wish i had a felting shaver because im hoping that just what i dont like is that it is so fuzzy and that it will seem lighter without all the fuzz. so then we went to the bon marche so she could get some needles for her pacse shirt. then we went to this place called the mosque and drank mint tea with sugar in it. it was really kind of special. it is this garden with fig trees in it and little tables and they just walk around with trays of the tea, which is so much better than you can imagine, and then if you want cookies you have to go inside. we got two different kinds of pistachio cookies, mine was more of a cake and hers was more of a doughnut. anyway, the only problem was it was really hot and we were both getting sunburned so we had to go kind of quickly. next we went to go letterboxing. the directions we had were to find one by the palais royal so we walked FOREVER to get to the palais royal, but then once we were there we realized that we were actually at the grand palais. at which point abby made me fall in love with her forever by puling a compass out of her purse so we could figure out where to go. we arrived at the palais royal (the buren columns that i am doing my project on are under renovation and like, not there at all right now...) there was an ouositde exhibit of pieces of the berlin wall which were decorated by artists, it was pretty cool. then we followed the directions to find the green box, and it was inside this hedge with people surrounding it. we were trying to think of a distraction so we could get in there without being seen but we finally just went for it, people noticed for sure. we found it and inside there was a buren column stamp for our books, but we hadnt made our stamps yet so we couldnt stamp the book :(. but there was some little extra thing in there called a hitchhiker. it was a eiffel tower stamp and if you find it you are supposed to take it and put it in the next one you find. so we drew something in the book, and took the hitchhiker, but then we couldnt figure out how to get it back in the hedge becuase the same people were still there and it looks kind of like a bomb...so heres where things get kind of sketchy...we took it. abby is going to get a stamp book, stamp the stamps, and take it back monday when different people are there. i really hope no one looks for it today! then we went grocery shopping, and i went back to her house and cooked stirfry for her and her boyfriend. it wasnt the best i have ever made it, but it was still pretty good, i was happy at least. we bought the biggest artichokes i have ever seen and cooked those too. her kitchen is like a martha stewart/ikea spawn. she has literally everything, a garlic press, a rollilng pin, a steamer, many cutting boards, great knives, several aprons. it was fantastic. romain, her boyfriend is very sweet. they were both really nervous that i was there i think, i could tell that she had like made him clean up over the day, they were really just adorable. he helped me study for my exam a little bit because i told him what my upcoming exam is on and he helped my practice the linking phrases like bien que and si bien que for example, and was correcting my oral grammaire. then he like got out this giant "le bon usage" book and started looking up rules for that for me and for accords. i dunno, it was cute. then he played games on my phone while abby and i knitted, knit? it was a really fun day. then when i got home beth had found the knitting group reportage and abby was like all over it. 

today i need to wrap up the bibliography for one of my classes but the girl i am supposed to meet with is not responding. i really need to get it done today because my like major french final is thursday, then next weekend i am going to bordeaux for a late birthday celebration so i doubt i will be able to accomplish much there. then the upcoming week, i like havent even started the project for my  last class yet so that week pretty much needs to be reserved for that. then all the sudden the whole thing is done and im 22 and graduated. what the hell.