the ballet!

so funny story - yesterday morning i went to class super early because i was in a new classroom and had to give a presentation and therefore wanted to leave myself plenty of time to find the building. when i got to the class i had written down, there was another professor there. i immediately panicked and went back out into the street to try and find someone from my class and instead, came across my prof from the afternoon, fabrice. since fabrice is pretty much the nicest person ever, he literally left his own class on their own and took me to the office to find out the right room. the secretary made a series of calls and concluded that my class should, in fact, be in the classroom i had previously visited. i then trekked back up to the 4th floor feeling really stupid, but alas, it was still the other prof. in the end, i resorted to sitting in the courtyard of the catho waiting for my class to go on break so i could find out the room. 90 minutes later, they came out. turns out they were in A42, not E42 so whoever wrote it down wrong in the office is DUMB. buuuut it's totally fine because i ended up being the only one to give a presentation anyway since everyone else was absent and i did a pretty swell job, if i may say so myself.

the rest of the day turned out to be quite fabulous, really, which is odd since it was the 14th...and usually the 14th is really unlucky for me? oh well, no complaints because for lunch a bunch of us went to get falafel! and we were supposed to go to the pompidou centre, but someone told us it was closed...even though it was actually open! but instead of going, brittney and i went grocery shopping and then decided to go to the opera to see if we could get rush tickets for the ballet! and guess what? we got them =] it was only 15 euros and we were in the 10th row!!!! oh and it was so beautiful.

it seriously made me want to run home and stretch and put on my pointe shoes. i can't wait to get paid to do what i love. and by can't wait i mean i really hope i get to...

today was pretty solid, too, despite the 6 hours of french class. turns out school goes quickly when you just have to listen to people talk about random crap for 3 hours at a time. afterwards, i came back to the dorms for some dinner before heading back out to go shopping with carley, steph, sammy and brittney. i wasn't actually planning on buying anything, but i figured that since i ate about 18 of these:

...i should go take a walk. no really, i had 18...but brittney insists that they're just crackers and not cookies so maybe that's better...aaaanyways, i did end up getting a bag in the latin quarter that i had seen. it was only 20 euros and it's really adorable. plus, it's really the only souvenir i'm buying myself from here and i know i'll use it all the time. [i took a really crappy picture of it, but i'll take another better one and post it tomorrow.]

okay i think that's it! i only have one more test for my class on friday and then i'm done! i don't quite know what we'll be doing all of next week, but whatever. tomorrow is more class, more shopping with brittney and carley, a comedy show and GOING OUT. FINALLY. THANK YOU.

10 days 'til home =]