brittany à paris !: do you love me? (do you love me?)

i heard a French band play that song on Saturday night. =) we all danced.

Friday I had school from 11:30-1:30, but i woke up at 7am and went with my hostmom to drive Lucie to school and then to the open-air market! It was really cool; we definitely don't have things like this in the U.S. very often, nor for that low of a price! I always found it funny that you have to pay MORE for the real/organic food from a market, less for the fake/processed stuff. But here it's not like that at all! My hostmom bought so many different things, and it was cool to be with her and see what it was all about. So then I went to school, went shopping and bought some school supplies (hooray!) and came home. Lucie gets out of school at 1pm on Fridays, so when I got home from the store she was here, and she asked me if I wanted to go shopping with her. So we went to an area called Marais, which is a huge shopping area, combined with the gay neighborhood of Paris and the Chinatown. Talk about an interesting mix! haha. It was cool to people watch and then to go in random stores. Lucie says it's really hard to remember your way around that part of town because there's so many side streets and shortcuts and whatnot, so we were basically wandering for a few hours. We found a thriftstore that Lucie LOVES -- she bought two skirts and a purse. I found boots! made in italy, for 30€! not bad, not bad. Then we got crêpes and went back to the train. We went to the grocery store to get stuff to make for dinner, and then home. Laura, Madeline, and Katy came over for dinner with me and Lucie, we just made pasta and had bread and wine. It was a good dinner, though! We hung out for a little bit, Laura and Katy left to go to a bar, and I went to bed pretty early.

Saturday, Katy, Laura, and I went to an art exhibit in Laura's neighborhood in this gallery called Dorothy's Gallery -- it was all about OBAMA! Ranging from photography to paintings to sculptures to collages to caricatures to drawings -- it was a really cool exhibit and interesting to see foreigners' views on him, as well. The lady who owns the gallery was really nice and explained to us some of the stories behind the paintings and the exhibit, but she was a bit psycho. She was American (who spoke horrible French) and just kind of spacey and pushy. She would ask us questions such as "Who's that person in the background of the painting?" We would say "ohhh i don't know" and she would say "Yes you do. yes you do. Think. Yes you do." haha it was really intimidating. But anyways, then we left and we wanted to go to the Catacombs -- too late, they closed at 4pm. =( So we walked around that area, there was the Montparnasse cemetery which is huge, and Baudelaire is buried there. So we took some pictures and whatnot and then got on the metro and parted ways, except Laura came home with me. We went to the grocery store and got stuff to make for dinner, my hostparents went to dinner at a friend's house. So we ate dinner and hungout with Lucie for a bit and then met up with a bunch of friends for this free concert / battle of the bands thing going on. It was fun, and something different to do. There were 5 bands, each one could play one original song and one cover. All the covers were American of course, so this one band played "Do you Love Me?" by the Contours and we were all dancing and it was a ton of fun. After the bands were done, the place turned into a nightclub, but we left and all went home. I got home and just went to bed.

Today I'm not gonna do anything -- i have some homework to do for school and laundry to do etc etc so i'm just gonna have a lazy day. I may treat myself to Starbucks, today ... we'll see ;). Love and hugs and kisses to all!

here are my pictures -- clearly it wasn't 1/1/08 for the date -- my camera just screwed up the date when i took them =(