Tuesday - One of the English teachers sat down next to me when I was studying from my vocabulary book and we ended up having me read a few sections of vocabulary and she corrected my pronunciation. At some point I mentioned that I had to read a poem and record it for my professor and now am memorizing it. The poem is called Le Dormeur du Val and, in school, every French person has had to memorize this specific poem... I started reciting the poem to her and it was like the entire Teachers' Lounge was suspended in time - everyone stopped what they were doing to listen... By the time I finished, everyone was impressed and I was thinking I was going to have to take my sweater off - I was burning up!
Wednesday - In class today, two of my classmates mentioned that tonight there was a ceremony to light all the Christmas lights on the Champs d'Elysée and that they were going. I joined them for the adventure! Both Norah and Katherine were very excited to see the special guest lighting the lights - it was Diane Kruger who starred in "Joyeux Noël" (a very good WWI film we watched at school). We checked out the Christmas market and participated in the crazy mob trying to see the famous actress. She was of course gorgeous. I managed to climb up on a stack of banisters to snag a photo of her!
They shot glitter up in the air and it felt a little like a fairy tale:
On a famous French street, lit up, and sparkling in the night.
Thursday was Thanksgiving and even though it is not a French holiday, NYU Paris had a Thanksgiving dinner for all of their students. It was on the Montecosy - a boat. They assured me that it didn't move, but after a few minutes, I discovered that it rocked (I thought I was ill and going to pass-out --> but it was just the boat rocking A LOT). I sat with the other Graduate Students and we had a good time eating Thanksgiving the French way...
Me, Norah, and Sarah
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