After the cemetery on Tuesday, my 4 hour lit class was canceled, so I went shopping! I'm almost done buying souvenirs for people! And I bought myself some cute new duds! (shirts mostly) So after shopping and walking around the huge mall for a couple of hours, we had a group outing to this place by the Hotel De Ville. I can't remember the name of the restaurant, but it sold mediterranean cuisine. We all got stuff to go and then went to a little park. I'm not a huge fan of mediterranean food...the last time I had it, I sort of liked the hummus and couldn't eat my babaganouge...so I went with something simple: falafel! They took some pita bread and made a tortilla shape out of it then filled it with cabbage, cucumbers, eggplant, other vegetably stuff and falafel. It wasn't half bad! I ate the falafel and was super pumped about the eggplant (but it ended up being completely saturated with oil...sad face!). I'm not a huge fan of cucumbers or anything else that was in it, but the falafel bit was purty delicious! I'm proud of myself for trying something new! (more on that later!)
After the falafel, we went to my favorite gelato place eva! I had half raspberry, half orange. It was my first time getting orange and it tasted like dreamsicles! Very good! After that, we convinced the program director and one of the professors to take us to the red light district. It is not very safe to go to the red light district without a male if you're a girl. I think 10 or so of us went with John and Jeff as our escorts, and we just took pictures of all of the crazy sex shops and the 7 story museum of erotisism, as well as the moulin rouge!! Only 3 guys yelled, "I love you," to us, so that wasn't too bad.
We got home, went to bed and this morning (Wednesday), I had my 2 hour lit class. We usually go to a cafe and have lunch. The last time we went, I ordered this sandwich crudites, which is a sandwich with lettuce, tomato, boiled egg, and mayonnaise. Turns out, I really really, really dislike mayonnaise...and tomatoes. So today, I ordered it sans mayonnaise and gave my tomatoes to Leslie. But the important thing, is that I knew I didn't like mayonnaise and tomatoes and I tried it anyway! Hooray me! It was way more delicious without all the gross stuff on it though!
I'm trying to get over being such a picky eater...but it's difficult. It's hard to force myself to eat something that I want to spit out. For example, in Berlin, I went to this thai restaurant, and I didn't see a description of anything I eat on the menu, so I just kinda picked one that had the least amount of things I don't like. I got my food, which was like tofu (this was a vegetarian restaurant btw) with a whole bunch of vegetables in this sauce that smelled ok but tasted like the back of your throat after you vomit. It was horrible. I really am trying to not be so picky and stuff, but it's hard when your food tastes like puke!! (Sorry, this blog post is rather disgusting, haha).
Where was I? Oh yeah, so today I had class, then went to the grocery store, followed by going back to my room to do homework. Some of the girls were going to this restaurant called Le Paradis des Fruits that apparently is super awesome. So I decided to go as well. It was a super cute establishment! It's a fruit themed restaurant and they serve super delicious fruit smoothies and everything (from entrees to cocktails) has fruit in it. I ordered this chicken curry stuff with rice and a salad. I don't particularly like curry, but I decided to order it becuase it had apples and pineapples in the sauce with the chicken and becuase I tried a girl's pita the night before that had falafel and curry chicken in it (and it was pretty good!). Turns out, I really, really, really dislike curry :( I gave it my best shot, but it was just too...not what I like haha. So I'm kind of upset that I spent like 12 euros on something I didn't eat...(I did have some of the rice though and ate the salad even though it had dressing on it and I really don't like dressing either, but the French don't understand not putting dressing on salad).
All in all, I'm trying to be a less picky eater, but it's not working. I will definitely miss Paris, but I'm ready to get back to my yummy grilled chicken and yummy lettuce with no dressing, nor tomatoes!
Things I miss about the states:
-you
-food that I will eat
-Walmart
-air conditioning
Other things I did today:
-homework
-wrote some more postcards
-bought a sweet tourist shirt for only 6 euros! It's super cute and has pictures of famous parisian landmarks and monuements on it.
Things I will do tomorrow:
-go play petanque at a park with old people!
-go to the centre pompidou
Some other stuff I'd like to mention:
-I got a bug bite on my foot and I scratched it open and now it really hurts :(
-It rained today so it's been in the 70s!!!!
-Leslie and I went to a market last week and bought some flowers. They are all pretty much dead now, but I'm drying one of the purple roses, because it's very pretty!
-I finally found a loofah! I always use one but I didn't bring one with me becuase I was prepared to buy one when I got here. Well, the French population doesnt really use loofahs, but I found one at this Asian store in the mall!
-I found some replacement facewash!
Well, I'm pooped!
Bon soir!
Briana
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