On Friday, instead of class our teachers took us on a nearly 5 hour long walking tour, centered around Hemingway. We saw where Hemingway lived, where he ate, where he wrote... along with some other famous authors--here's Gertrude Stein's old apartment:
We also ate lunch at Hemingway and Hadley's favorite cafe, just down the street from where he lived for most of his time in Paris:
Apparently, the two cartoonists who wrote for the Charlie Hebdo paper, who were shot almost a year ago exactly, loved to come here too. These are pictures they drew on the chalkboards in the room we were sitting in:
Our teacher Kathie also knew the owner of one of the only English book stores in the city. I picked up an Anne Tyler novel and read it the whole time we were there:
Dana and I went out for drinks at Le Select afterwards with our teachers! Le Select was Hemingway's favorite place to write--he wrote most of A Moveable Feast there, which is the book I am reading now!
After drinks, Dana and I headed to the Louvre because it is free after 6 pm on Fridays for people under 26. All we had to do was show our IDs and we got in! I was more in awe of the rooms than of the paintings. Like this one:
And, of course, we saw my girl the Mona Lisa:
I was more impressed with the painting on the opposite wall to her--this painting was as big as the entire wall and just blew my mind with how long and complicated it must have been to paint it!
That night, Emma and I and a few other people from the group we are in went to Le Falstaff for dinner. Hemingway often sites this cafe in his books about Paris.
The next day, I woke up late and got breakfast with Emma, then met up with Dana to go to the Latin Quarter to do some shopping! Only we took too long to get there and find a good street to shop on, and then got hungry and had to eat dinner (in the end, we didn't really get to buy anything!)
On the bright side, I made some slimy friends!
Snails are quite good when there is good sauce and good wine and good company and a good atmosphere. It was a recipe for deliciousness!!
We also ate lunch at Hemingway and Hadley's favorite cafe, just down the street from where he lived for most of his time in Paris:
Apparently, the two cartoonists who wrote for the Charlie Hebdo paper, who were shot almost a year ago exactly, loved to come here too. These are pictures they drew on the chalkboards in the room we were sitting in:
Our teacher Kathie also knew the owner of one of the only English book stores in the city. I picked up an Anne Tyler novel and read it the whole time we were there:
Dana and I went out for drinks at Le Select afterwards with our teachers! Le Select was Hemingway's favorite place to write--he wrote most of A Moveable Feast there, which is the book I am reading now!
After drinks, Dana and I headed to the Louvre because it is free after 6 pm on Fridays for people under 26. All we had to do was show our IDs and we got in! I was more in awe of the rooms than of the paintings. Like this one:
And, of course, we saw my girl the Mona Lisa:
I was more impressed with the painting on the opposite wall to her--this painting was as big as the entire wall and just blew my mind with how long and complicated it must have been to paint it!
That night, Emma and I and a few other people from the group we are in went to Le Falstaff for dinner. Hemingway often sites this cafe in his books about Paris.
The next day, I woke up late and got breakfast with Emma, then met up with Dana to go to the Latin Quarter to do some shopping! Only we took too long to get there and find a good street to shop on, and then got hungry and had to eat dinner (in the end, we didn't really get to buy anything!)
On the bright side, I made some slimy friends!
Snails are quite good when there is good sauce and good wine and good company and a good atmosphere. It was a recipe for deliciousness!!
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