On Learning to Update

So I apparently stink at this whole “update your journal” thing.

Let me try to catch up, again.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Today we had French again, but at 11.00 instead of the old 9.30 and that was nice. But French was boring and afterwards we went to find this art supply store… that ended up really good, but I didn’t get anything really useful. So I need to go to another store tomorrow, especially for ANOTHER sketchbook for Tristan’s class. Went to WHSmith over at Place de la Concord and found the sketchbook we’ve been looking for in Damien’s class, which is this lame and expensive pullout thing. Also bought Salad Cream and I’m thrilled to get to use it.

Walked around our supposed site (really, I think they just put their fingers down on a map of France) a little bit and found virtually nothing in the way of usable space for this project. Going out again tomorrow.

And here I am, relaxed and fighting off a good nap because Sarah’s making tacos tonight. I need to read for Tristan’s class and graffiti all in my book.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

I did nothing on this day, just so everybody knows. I did not leave the Fondation and it was niiiiiiiice.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

In the morning, we hunted down a supply store in the nearby neighborhood but it ended up being nothing but sculpting materials. But that works for Damien’s class probably, so we’ll keep it in mind. Went to Champion right after and spent a bunch of money AGAIN… but it’s nice to have real food in your dorm.

Kickball followed but it was a short 9-inning game in which we lost, sad faces, and I only drank 2 little cidres so it was pathetic. Then we came back and got ready for Nuit Blanche.

First we went to Notre Dame and listened to an almost all female Gregorian Choir which was BEAUTIFUL, not to mention getting to go see the exterior and interior of Notre Dame. Then we exited and watched this cool fire dancer who used fireworks in his show just outside Notre Dame. Then we saw this beacon of light and followed it all the way to Montparnasse, where there was this AWESOME display of about 50 lights set up in a pattern, pointing to the sky. They were just tall enough that you could get maybe your hand over them, and they were accompanied by some of the coolest sounds. It was really cool. Then we meandered towards Quai Branley to try to see the Rabbit Opera but we never found it and instead saw this… international tour? With strange sounds and pictures of places around Europe, as well as a ton of rubber duckies in this cute pond thing representing all the EU countries. It was trippy.

But we looked again for the Rabbit Opera and ended up missing the last metro (which cut off ½ hour early, btw), so we had to walk the 2 miles home and finally got in about 3.30AM.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Had the day off from class and it felt spectacular after the previous two days. Ended up sleeping in before…you know, i don't remember what we did here.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Went to WHSmith today to check it out and ended up buying 2 sketchbooks (together) and the book I need for Tristan’s class. Damn expensive. Had studio afterwards and nearly fell asleep because we sat in the same place for 5 hours listening to them talk. it was harsh, but apparently NOT how it will be run from now on. We can be hopeful.

Everybody in the class speaks English, and I’m torn over whether this is a good thing or not.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Extra long class today – Started at 9AM with Damien’s “Visual Arts” class, aka Art. That was RIDICULOUS because we couldn’t understand a word he said since we had to sit in the back, and then went and sketched our site and now we have to “pick a theme” for it and… I’m not an art student! I don’t like this artsy craftsy installation stuff. Oh well.

Then we suffered through Paris Urban History, which was looking at map after map after map with only the slightest changes for 3 hours… and it wouldn’t have been so bad if I wasn’t falling asleep the whole time.

Then we went to French, which was the same as usual except we got to start reading Asterix, so that was pretty cool.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Had Tristan’s class today and watched “La Haine,” which was a really good movie focusing on the problems of living in the banlieus of Paris. Also discussed the class a bit and it seems cool (except that today I received an e-mail about our assignment due next Tuesday and it looks BRUTAL).

Waited for three hours to go try the stage design course but it wasn’t happening this week. I’ve decided I don’t want to take the class to try to free up my Tuesday since Wednesday and Thursday are both days from hell. We’ll see.