i hate endings!!!

ok so before i end this blog forever, lets catch up.

my finals all went really well! expecting good things from this class. we went to the carnival in the tuileries yesterday to celebrate... SO FUN. i rode the swings, the rainbow, and that ejection ball bungee cord thing. then we went to our end of term party at school where they had prepared hors d'oeuvres for us and a photography exhibition of photos students had taken during their stay in paris. quite pleasant. that night we went out to Social Club again and of course had a late night to celebrate. and now here i am... 

i leave paris tomorrow :(... sads. haven't started packing... must get around to that at some point today.. my shit is all over the place. mom?? help me?? 

oy. i don't know where to begin.. so in the mean time i'm going to make a list of all the things i'm going to miss about paris (the city, the program, etc)... so here goes:

-first and foremost, the people in my program. seriously. i lucked out with them. 

-having a chill roommate. 

-the excellent and cheap vintage shopping

-the way the city looks like artwork at night

-drinking by the seine

-navigo passes

-my freaking cool professor

-speaking french to strangers (if poorly)

-70 degree weather (but not the bipolar weather.. just better than the 102 degree weather i will be going home to)

-being able to have a glass of wine with my meal

-knowing the names of wines

-my RAs

-though there may not be an ATM on every corner, i'll miss that when you ask to get out 40 euro, it'll give you a 20 and two 10s. 

-the way people dress

-the cobblestone streets of the marais

-sleeping with the windows open

-the sun going down at 1030pm

-GOOD BREAD

-the boulangerie formule (a sandwich/quiche, drink, and a dessert for 5.50 euro!)

-the museums (particularly the pompidou and the picasso)

-being a short bus ride away from other cool european countries

-actually using a map to get around (it's an escape the the age of technology!)

-having my facebook in french

-the guy in my dorm who is constantly playing the piano and can be heard all throughout the building

-not watching TV. at all. (however, in my dvr at home, there awaits many a "So You Think You Can Dance?" episode.. much catch up)

-letting my hair air dry because i blew out my hairdryer the first night

-MACAROONS 

-and of course, blogging about all of these experiences here in paris :(

oy is this really the end?? guess i'll see y'all across the pond tomorrow!