it is the last week in paris. confused on how i feel.
lots of stuff to look forward to in america but a lot to miss from paris.
things i will miss:
drinking in public.
the eiffel tower.
the louvre & tuilleries gardens.
every famous monument, actually.
speaking french & being understood.
the clubs.
french food.
seeing the adorable fashion that americans don't have.
looking out my window :).
the champs-elysées.
champagneeee.
having a french mom.
things i won't miss:
no free refills.
the service at restaurants.
being american & hated.
speaking french & not being understood.
creepy french men.
the expensive euro!
the metro with sweaty people.
some french food (i'm all ham-ed out).
having to walk miles to every museum.
the french assholes (*gypsies)
bahh.. one week. weird weird weird, but what an experience. being a completely different person in a completely different country and culture. every person should experience another country as a citizen there. maybe not paris, but somewhere in this world, everyone should have experienced a double culture, and the shocks, fun, and troubles that come with it.
i would do this experience again in an instant. (maybe without the gypsies, and creepy french men). next country: africa or australia. one day.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
merci paris, pour j'ai appris beaucoup. au revoir dans une semaine. ou, au bientôt.
ps- bonne jour d'independence aux etats-unis!
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