Paris

I went to Paris last weekend with my friends and we had a really good time. Everything went really well actually. We were quite lucky. The train ride was nice (we all slept the whole time because the train was at 5:30am) and then we easily navigated the metro to the hostel (thanks to my amazing metro ability haha) and the hostel was really nice. I remembered enough from my last trip with the Trethewey's that I was able to navigate everyone through the city pretty well and I remembered which stops to get off at and all that. We saw all the main sites again, including Sacre Coeur since our hostel was right there. We also found ourselves in the Red Light district at night looking for an ATM because it was right down the street. Saw the Moulin Rouge a couple of times, from the outside of course. We had our minor spats as people couldn't decide what to do or people couldn't keep their attention on things long enough, but overall it went really well. We went to the Louvre on Friday night because it's free for students between 6 pm and 10 pm. I spent a lot of money there because Paris is freaking expensive. But oh well. I guess you just gotta suck it up sometimes. I also got to see the Eiffel Tower at night glowing blue and then sparkling and I got a video of it sparkling all pretty. It was freezing there, especially compared to Montpellier where it never hits freezing, so we were all kind of suffering through the cold. But we managed to stay alive. None of us really wanted to come back because we were all rather comfortable in Paris, but oh well. Paris is just a really nice city. I enjoyed it as much the second time as I did the first. We also went to Versailles of course! How could I forget that. Unfortunately, it's wintertime, so the garden's weren't as impressive as they could be, but still Versailles is interesting. We almost missed our train home because I forget that the train station was 15 metro stops away. But we made it with 2 minutes to spare, literally. We had to run through the train station, which was pretty funny. We made it home just fine at 1 am. Then we were back to Montpellier and school again.
School is almost over which is nice but also not nice because I have a lot of work to do. I can't seem to get motivated to do any of it, so I am going to be stressed out this week trying to get it all done. It's the last week of class and most finals are during the classes, so I have next week pretty free. I might have a final for my one class, but I'm not quite sure. I have no idea when the final is, which makes things pretty difficult. Weird to think I only have two weeks left here and then I'm off to traveling, and then I'm off to home. Really weird actually. I've really become quite settled here I guess. Be weird to be back where people speak English. I will be glad to get to Penn State classes as opposed to Paul Valery classes, because they are terrible here. Other than that...I just don't know. I do want some Lipton Lemon Iced Tea though. They don't have lemon iced tea here! Disgraceful. haha. I do want to see my family too. Of course. I don't know. It's a weird time that would be impossible to understand unless you've been through it. Traveling should be fun. We have everything completely settled through the 1st of January, when we are going to London. All we have to do is find a hostel to stay at in London, which should be easy, and then I have to get back to Montpellier, which should also be easy. Alright well that's all for now.