Saturday, July 18, 2009

the germans are coming!!

...well, they've already come but the title sounds more exciting that way and i always love a good sound of music allusion. 

anway, so yeah, anja's here! and we've already had so much fun. went to the cool jazz club again last night with a bunch of people from my program. it was slow-jazz night... very sultry and smooth. then we went to QUEEN... which wasn't as great as i'd heard, but then again it wasn't ladies night. will have to go back. must see the male strippers i've been hearing about. 

anyway, today we went shopping at the flea market and i actually bought something! i took care of gifts for my family today... feeling very generous. the flea market's so great. it's like a labyrinth of tiny treasure shops. you never know what you'll find. 

i realized that i left out about a week ago that i went to the victor hugo museum! i don't remember exactly when i did that.... but it was very cool. the museum is at what used to be his house after he came out of exile. it holds his family's private art collection and a lot of his first editions. i opted for one of those headphone tours where you press the number and it tells you all about it. it was helpful to know the context of all the archives and what not... really wanting to read les miserable now. 

tonight we're going to dinner in the marais... expect a full restaurant review in the next post :)

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