- lectures, films, and bars oh my!
Going to Paris frequently...for class, for individual interest...this semester there is a lecture series that was set up between all of the study abroad arch programs: columbia, rice university, georgia tech and us. So I get to go to these lectures with other american students doing the same damn thing as I am in this foriegn country. Maybe ill make new friends, im tired of the ones i have here (j/k). My crazy professor likes to drag us around paris and look at all of the housing projects, good thing I like to look at them too. I really am interested in housing in the city, depending on how my interest grows this semester, I may consider it being an area of specific studies. I saw this film on Friday...with a room full of frenchies, it was about the suburban sprawl in America and the depleation of oil. Many "experts" say that we are doomed in a few years because of how we waste oil, and do not live conservatively and we drive everywhere...which is all true, but can you imagine it, the end of america because of no oil??? possibly, most of us are too ignorant to really ponder it tho. Im sure the discussion from the french after the film would have been interesting, however I couldnt understand it, so I left.
Friday night I walked around the wet, winding streets of the latin quarter with three friends, trying to seek shelter and beer in a somewhat cool atmosphere. We gave it three attempts and on the third we found ourselves inside a canadian bar, they spoke english there, that was a relief...and football was on the tv screens. i dont like football, but it reminded me of home which I liked. So I enjoyed myself in my american get away off of a cobbled narrow street in the heart of medieval paris.
shandar | 6:13 PM
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