Paris, Day 1

We have just finished five days in Paris and it was such an overwhelping event. I’ve had to wait a few days to process it all before I could write anything about it.

Since it’s so much and things in Lacoste are seeming uneventful, I’m going to just take it day by day in Paris, separate posts. I just think one post would be far too overwhelming.

 

So day 1.

 

We had to leave Lacoste at 6.30am and just to be safe, Kara and I woke up around 5. When we got up, it was insanely windy outside. I hadn’t heard so much wind probably since I was in my last hurricane. So naturally, we made a video:

We then took a bus from Lacoste to Avignon, and then all 46 students and the faculty had 3 minutes to board the train to Paris. We were all super excited, and acting silly, and thankfully, everyone made it on the TGV (the high speed train!)

3 hours later, we were in PARIS!

It was slightly rainy (but not bad) and we took a 30 minute walk from the train station- Gare de Lyon- to our Hotel “Home Latin” in the Latin Quarter in Paris.

 

It was maybe only 10:30 or 11am by the time we got in our rooms, so we rested an hour or so, then went out to lunch at a Thai restaurant that was really near our hotel.

After lunch, we went to the Cimitiére du Pére Lachaise for art history. We have to do a presentation on Paris and take one piece from here, on from FIAC, and one from the Louvre.

I am doing my presentation on music or something, so I first stopped by Chopin’s grave:

But more importantly (but it’s not really important to me at all) Oscar Wilde’s grave is in this cemetery. I was more curious to see it, than I cared to see it, but I was with Melissa, and she’s kind of obsessed with him, and this is what happened:

We were all exhausted so we didn’t do much else worth talking about that day, but I will say that as I was walking around that day with soaked feet and uncomfortable (but cute!) shoes, I was happy- because I was wet in PARIS!!!