well, i'll just tell my story from today
and i think i can do it briefly, though à la fin, je pense que tu me diras
...at the end, you'll say it was a bit...dull
I hope you'll learn your lesson :)
first i start with last night (hush up/taisez-vous!--it won't be that much longer!)
i hung out with my friend yanique most of the day yesterday--she helped me twist my hair (yay) pics to follow
and when she had to go to the grocery store (Franprix...but there are several (monoprix...ED is the best/la meilleure!) i went with her because on my new list of "things to do/que je voudrais faire (want to do)" was get a bottle of wine, to drink at leisure...
so i went to get wine and then to go home
but whilst we shopped...or while she shopped, i must have wondered so long about what I was going to cook at home (at the dorm) that she invited me back for dinner
so i ate WONDERFUL food with my friend yanique and her cute baby piérre and her wonderful sarcastic wedding photographer husband olivier* (www.olivierlalinweddings.com AND www.olivierlalin.com)
*for whom i'm gonna try to help with some small publicity work while I'm here! and if you have any ideas of wedding-related companies/industries that can link to his site, please send me suggestions--it's always good to have fresh ideas and build bigger lists
...so we ate great food (pics of empty plates to follow)...during the meal, the guy who i met on the train last thursday who i thought just looked cool and might be a decent french speaking comrade called me...ten times in a row
ladies, if they do this, RUN
men, if a woman does this, RUN
suffice it to say, i think he's crazy and probably won't be answering his calls because as the texts before and after the ten (fast succession) calls stated, "[he] wants to see me"
right. i get that, but not really--je suis desolée!
onto today's wonderfulness:
left the room late
namik was in town! (my good NYC friend)
went to library to return/renew book (très facilement! sooooo easy!) by Margaret Atwood (a handmaid's tale...la servante écarlate)
and ended up staying at the library for a couple hours just reading a great article/dossier in Jazz Magazine
i experienced joy just sitting there reading the magazine (and my dictionary simultaneously) and taking notes every other word into my journal for the words i don't know
and je suis certain that my time was SO much better spent at the library than in the class I'm no longer taking! :)
so i read jazz articles and fell in love all over again with jazz and music and maybe a little with french...but mostly just jazz
i gotta study it--anybody know any good books? (please leave comments/laissez-vous votre commentaire, s'il vous plait)
glanced through marie claire (french version) took a few pics of knitting-inspiration, and left to meet namik and terence for dinner
fast fwd (this is getting long--sorry!)
dinner was just food
(sorry...the place i intended for us to go had only meat and we don't really do that, so we went to a indian place that was half decent but nothing to speak of)
THEN we went to a jazz spot and i SANG
it was a "jam session" similar to open mics but the musicians/band isn't quite "on it" like in nyc
granted the songs are not french, but still
so he didn't know the song i wanted to sing (our love is here to stay) so i had to sing...
April in Paris...go fig
he didn't know how to transpose so it was also too high
but...i sang as well as i could
some head voice
tried to breathe well
hey, you know...better luck next time
Café Universel
and i'm going back next week...maybe even friday to see this girl (who i haven't yet determined i likeyet--hence my attendance to the free concert!)
tomorrow: swan bar for vocal jam session #2
Arin in Paris
is Paris ready.....????
last word (mot finale): i'm gonna start traveling soon--got suggestions? tell me--love love and peace
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