Quick Recap of a Lot of Stuff!

Bonjour!!
So much has happened the past couple of days!!

Wednesday:
-Musee de Cluny (a medieval museum) with lit calss. It was awesome! Everything was at least 500 years old, including this series of tapestries called La Dame a La Licorne! Some rich guy bought a chateau like 100 years ago and found the 400 year old tapestries in his basement! They suffered some water damage becuase they were laying in a puddle in said basement, but are relatively unharmed for being 500 years old!!
-Went with lit teacher to a piercing place to get her nose pierced!! It looks super cute on her!! I think her face was made for one!
-Went to the program director's daughter's 7th bday party! It wass a lot of fun! She got a ton of hair stuff and loved the ballerina outfit that Leslie and I got her. I think the last time that I went to a 7th bday party, I was 7 or 8 haha. It was awesome to hang out with a kid! I've never thought about it before, but the only kids I see while at school are kids at walmart, haha. It was nice and I had a great time!

Thursday:
-Went to the Paris Opera house to look at the beautiful architecture and art and stuff!! I didnt see the phantom though :( but I did see the incredibly beautiful and ornate stage and a museum exhibition about an opera star who recently has died named Regine something...I can't remeber her last name, sorry!
-Went to the African quarter of Paris to pick up some super cool African dresses that my teacher had custom made for her! There are a bunch of shops with tons and tons of these crazy African fabrics. So you pick a fabric and pick a dress style, they measure you and you come back in a week to pick everything up! Karen's clothes were gorgeous!! She got two really pretty prints: a skirt and top of each. Leslie bought a premade dress when we were there and I'm super jealous! If I had money and time left, haha, I would go have one made! They're awesome!
-Went back to the Foyer and got dressed for a concert at St. Chapelle! St. Chapelle is a beautiful gothic church in which about 80 percent of the walls are stain glass! I'm a huge stain glass fan and the St. Chapelle is breathtaking!! The church is very small though compared to like Notre Dame and Sacre Coeur, but still very nice. We were told that we were either seeing a concert of Vivaldi's Four Seasons or Pachabel's Canon. We saw neither, haha. I have no idea what was played, nor who it was by, but it was kickass! There were only 3 musicians: 1 played all of these different wooden recorders (and was super kickass!), 1 was an amazing violonist and the other was a fantastic harpsicord player! I loved it! Several of the pieces were just the recorder dude, then some with the recorder guy and the violinist, and then some with all three musicians. My favorite piece though was one played by just the violinist and the harpsicord lady. It was a series of movements and each one was a different bird. It was cute! The first movement was Le Rossignol (the nightingale), then the cuckoo, then the hen and cock, then something I didn't know the word for (I think it might have been an owl? but he didn't say ebu or chouette...two words for owl, so who knows?), and then the last one was about a cat who tries to catch all of the birds. That was my favorite because he made the violin make meowing sounds, haha. It was awesome!
-After returning, I had to finish all of my journal entries for a prompt 8:30 due date. I stayed up till 2:30 :(

Friday:
-I got up at 5:30 (hooray 3 hours of sleep!) and headed to the airport to pick up my mom and sister!!!
-Got to the airport, finally ound the right terminal after walking around for like 45 minutes, haha, and picked up my fam!!! It was great to see them becuase I haven't been home all summer! I think I've seen them each like 3 or 4 times in the past 3 months. So it was awesome to pick them up and get hugs!
-Settled them into the Foyer (they're staying right down the hall!) and went to take my final exams!
-Got an A on my lit exam!
-Got an A on my culture exam!
-Got an A on my journal!
-Went to the grocery store with Mom and Alyssa who preceeded to buy a lot of things and didn't really realize we'd have to walk home, haha. My back still hurts from the 983729583745 pound backpack, haha.
-Rested and hungout
-Went on a ghost tour of Paris!! It was really fun! This strange American guy gave us the tour and took us to different locations around the city and told us of the local lore and legends. It was super cool becuase I learned a lot of neat things about Paris' dark history! Including things like a real Sweeney Todd story, some cool stories about the catacombes and stuff like that!
-Came back to the Foyer and pretty much passed out from exhaustion, haha

Saturday (Today):
I woke up a little bit ago, have had some cereal and am now trying to get Mom and Alyssa up and at'em! I'm taking them to the Cemetery Pere Lachaise today!
Tonight, the kids in my group are having a celebration for Harry Potter's birthday! (Sponsored by my roomie and me, of course, haha) It will be fun! We're going to play trivia games and watch movies and make butterbeer! (which sounds like it will be really gross: club soda + butterscotch ice cream topping + some butter)

So yep! The this upcoming week will be awesome! 1. My mom and sister are here! 2. I am done with class and homework! 3. I will enjoy my last week in Paris!

Bonjournee!
Briana