Wednesday, October 27, 2010

SO MUCH VACATION

Coffee mug I drink out of every morning
Stuff my roommates eat
The laundromat is so boring. I ran into my roommate here. He did not use the dryer. I hope he doesn't keep doing the hang his clothes in the living room thing with the window open in February.
They totally have Halloween in France. But no one knows what it is so someone posted this sign on the door to my building telling everyone to buy candy and leave the front door open for the kids.
I went to see some bands play last weekend.
It was pretty fun.
AND IT WAS ON A BOAT.
There is dog shit all over all the sidewalks here.
And there are condom distributors in every metro station just in case you get lucky during your commute.
Thank god there are so many cool things to do in Paris or I might get bored with so much time off.
Here is a picture of me and Tom when we're older.
Not all the metro stations look this cool.
Barbe a papa!
You can tell which vendors are marketing themselves to tourists because their signs are in English. It's funnier when it's bad English.
Palais de Justice.
How are you supposed to take the cops seriously if they are driving around in these ridiculous things?
Downtown.
St Michel right after he killed someone.
Graffiti makes any old building look newer.
I didn't want to wait in the stupid line to go in so I just looked at the outside again.
This is how they tow cars here.
Stairs to go swimming.
Yeah definitely.
Weird.
Shitty picture/sweet jardin.
Lost.
No one wants to go see this with me except Tom.
"Do you know what they did to her? They burned her to death!" Dad explaining how Joan of Arc died to his 5 year olds.
Jardin des Tuileries.
Ugliest sculpture I could find in the Jardin des Tuileries.
Obelisk. That thing they stole from Egypt.
Angry stoplight.
Gendarmes wearing ninja turtle armor.
France imports sand to all its beaches from Martinique.
MORE FLAGS DAMNIT!
I was too lazy to walk all the way to the Eiffel Tower again.
Golden horse's butt on the fanciest bridge I have ever seen in my life--Pont Alexandre III.
What kind of kid wants to play ironing and vacuuming? Shouldn't the parents just make them actually vacuum and iron to save money and time?

Saturday, October 23, 2010

FUN STUFF PLUS ONE OF THE DAYS I WENT TO WORK

Scary danger of death door in my neighborhood.
Hopefully STD means something else in French. Or maybe this was the guy's romantic way of telling his girlfriend that he gave her gonorrhea.
Exciting crosswalk.
Some parts of Paris are ugly like the US.
National Library of France
I went to see a photography exhibit here.
Gare d'Austerlitz
Love you!
Metro bridge
Most of the buildings in Paris are not ugly.
Le Marais
Hotel de Ville plus ANOTHER CAROUSEL!
Notre Dame. So you know I'm actually in Paris.
So many mopeds all the time!
I tried to buy new wool socks here. They were 17 euros a pair. I went to France's equivalent of Target instead.
Somehow Bad Boys' Road just doesn't sound as tough in French.
Moped!
The bus lane is the same lane as the bike lane because French people aren't scared of shit.
Laundry is really expensive here. Maybe that's why my roommate chose to skip out on the sechage charge and dry his clothes in the living room (they are still hanging up).
French cars are weirdly shaped.
Garbage truck driver playing drums on his steering wheel to some metal song.
MOPED!
All the refrigerated trucks I've seen are labeled FRIGORIFIQUE.
Trashy.
Sweet luchadero shrine.
Window shop for love.
Pigeons/vielle dame.
Awesome switchblades.
This graffiti is the only reason no one is stealing this bike.
All the trash bags say stuff like "VIGILANT CLEANLINESS." Someone is being slightly less than vigilant.
Gorilla warrior
La Seine
I sat here for 10 minutes before I realized that the pile of cardboard next to me was actually someone's house.
Pretty!
Fancy school in Paris that I don't work at.
I went to the Museum of Natural History.
It was free.
And there was tons of amazing taxidermy.
Huge/awesome beetles.
Just like being at the zoo except everything's dead!
Best animal at the museum.
Le Jardin des Plantes
Waiting at the metro station because everyone's en greve.
Gare de Corbeil-Essonnes. The train station where I work.
Walking to work.
Work town.
Cat.
Work is not "right next to the train station" like I was told.
Still walking.
Work is on a mountain above the town.
WORK!
Apparently they are building "new, prettier housing projects" but this will not solve the town's problems because "the same [not white] people will live there." Some French people I've met are pretty racist.
Apartments across from the school I work at.
One of the schools I work at.
It's called Pablo Picasso.
Walking back to the train station after work.
I swear most of the town is pretty. I think.
So far from home.