freezing in france...

I have a new respect for international students who go to the States to study. In my classes, I get so nervous to speak in French that everything just comes out wrong or I just don’t speak at all! I hate speaking in front of people in English already, and having to do so in French is insanely terrifying!!!

Despite the stresses of my classes, I’ve been trying to explore a little more of Paris, despite the temperatures being BELOW freezing here!! It gets colder than this in Spokane, but at least we get around with cars! Here, walking around and waiting for buses and metros is a daily activity. So it's not too fun walking around in the freezing cold! But I guess it's better than being stuck in the library all day :P (which is something I should probably do...)


Anyway, I'll let my pictures/captions do the rest of the talking :) Profitez! 

i took a day trip to reims and the cathedral where the kings of france were crowned! :D

more cooking attempts :) - salmon and mushrooms with pasta

a free exhibit at the city hall :D

a lot of the pictures were of 'typical paris'

THIS is typically french :P window shopping allll the time

ahh i love these books - le petit nicolas :) so cutee

he drew a lot of funny cartoons - for the new yorker too! 

'typical new york' drawings - everyone eating lunch alone haha

it says 'hurry, hurry! do you want to marry me?!' :P

'(insert name here) - i think someone stole the car'

best udon everrr :D from the japanese quarter :P

ramennnn :)

louvre by night

palais de louvre

l'arc de triomphe du carrousel with the tour eiffel in the background :) i live this city

the opera house of the phantom!

my hair froze!!! :O

the room in reims where the germans signed the first instrument of surrender of world war two

yummyy :) thanks to the baking mixes from my aunt :D

the office of tourism in some ruins next to the cathedral

clovis, king of france baptized here by saint remi

the massive doors! the door for people to go in regularly only goes up to the second horizontal bar from the ground! :O

worn by charles x i think? for his coronation

dropped by the germans in the cathedral during the second world war

the original gargoyles with the molten whatever that hardened in the gutter!

first stop for champagne tasting - g.h. martel

the gallo-romans dug for chalk and later they were used to store and make champagne

basilique of saint rémi who baptized clovis, the king of france - his tomb thingy is at the bottom right

champagne house number two - taittinger

yummm - real champagne from the region of champagne :)

last stop - g.h. mumm

only half of the caves! hugeeee

a memorial for something i forget..

a nutella crepe from one of the stalls near my apt :) seriously weighs a couple pounds... and wayyy too much for one person!

chateau de vincennes, just on the outskirts of paris

jose, audrey, priscilla, valeria, shefali, and me in a huge fireplace at the chateau :)

valeria, audrey, priscilla, jose, and shefali at the chateau

what are all these people lining up for, you ask?

yes, that's right - abercrombie and fitch...

ladurée macarons!!! the besttt

hillsong paris!

beef carpaccio - sooo goodd

angelina! best hot chocolate everrr

terrible pictures, but amazing hot chocolate!

shefali, jamie, me, and priscilla at our after church service dessert :P

frozen fountain on the way to class!

this is how cold it is - the fountains next to the louvre are ALL frozen!!

yummy sandwich - reminds me of the pretty ones in stockholm :P

museum of decorative arts in the palais du louvre - can i just say that i LOVE using my french student card to get in free to museums?! :P 

<3 babar :)

weird exhibits in the museum..

definitely not a huge fan of this.. art?

the louvre from a window in the museum

best view of paris that's not in the freezing cold!

comfiest chair everr

interesting exhibit on advertising, publicity, and design

wedding invitation and story cut with a laser onto the little strips!

'self confidence produces fine results' made from bananas

live feed from the designer's office in new york city

sacré coeur from a street near my place

it's snowing by the bastille!

outside my apartment!

desserts from the jewish/tunisian bakery across from my apt - too sweet for my taste..