exactly a month

so i've been here exactly 30 days...and am listening to the 500 days of summer soundtrack (not really important information, i just appreciate the number + days coincidence)

and i've figured out several things:

-i'm impatient about my internship

-i've just started to feel like my french is getting somewhere

-i have a semi-unhealthy relationship with coffee

-sometimes the french need to chill out and wear brighter colors and smile

-i'm not sure i'll ever get sick of this song "Sweet Disposition" very gratifying for a multitude of reasons

-i should be going to bed right now...i have my midterm tomorrow

-i'm not gonna want to wake up tomorrow, BUT i'll try to remember to say "Rabbit, rabbit!" when i do

-i'm not sure i'm ever gonna be completely satisfied with any one country cause they're too much of one thing or many things. traveling is like having a bunch of friends that you appreciate for different reasons and do different things with: someone to go to the party with, someone to go to the theatre, someone to go to the movies, someone to just sit and have a coffee with, someone for the museums, and the best friend is one you don't have to do anything with...you just enjoy being together.

I'm still working on my country "best friend"

I'm honestly not sure if i'll ever find it, or if i need to...something to think about

don't mess....

so i just about 45 minutes on the phone with Bank of America who i clearly told i would be out of the country but who kept calling my dear poor mother warning of suspicious activity (of which there was none)

SO i called them so they'd quit bothering and calling and to make sure they didn't put a hold on anything. And after 15 mins of being bounced around i got INTO IT with some chick who was saying i answered my own damn questions wrong and that i'd have to fax in two forms of i.d. to which i responded "oh HELL no!" and told her that if i called and got someone else that i wouldn't have to deal with anything and that poutain/salope went and said i had suspicious activity on my account TODAY!!! and she was clearly messing with the wrong girl! because i AM who i say i AM i got the email and immediately called the exact same dept. got a different NICER person with whom i answered the questions the exact same way and got through and everything was cleared up! GO FIGURE!!! don't tell me i'm wrong, when i'm RIGHT!!!!

so NEGH! i was VERY nice to the other 3 people i spoke to because we didn't have beef and i have found things normally go better when you're very polite to them...but chick messed with the WRONG girl at the WRONG TIME! but it was quite good because i basically gotta vent all my frustration that inevitably builds up...in a constructive way! (on some YOTCH from B of A, who clearly deserved it for being so intractable) i mean i'm very emotionally healthy now and ready to progress with my language learning without a breakdown (which i very much expected) i actually hope i get to talk to her in another month and a half when i may need to vent again....

the road abroad is bumpy sometimes, because of language, because of the misunderstandings from language, because of the fatigue from the misunderstandings from language, and from the grumps that appear because of the fatigue from the misunderstandings from language....

but i've glided over the first one without crying...maybe gritted-teeth talking...but no crying or yelling. i dare say we're good for the moment.

also the above is a cool thing near my school which is near the tour eiffel

things i do and did

SO

first and foremost, a round of applause for no coffee or pastries! yes, it is possible. and Yes, i'm very proud of myself!

I also found great FREE things...you know exciting, hopping places where i can meet people and chat it up! like....the Louvre...and the Montparnasse cemetery! yay!!!

i actually loved how delightfully quiet it was....is that weird?

and the Louvre, is perfect. period. i will be going back there many a time, hang out in Napoleon III's apartments, you know, the us-.

but i've got my presentation tomorrow...and require beauty sleep!

weekend focus

ok, so i have firefox back! i'll actually be able to put up pictorals again! it's very exciting.

they always say it's important to have goals in life... life is too far away, but i have some goals for this weekend:
- be out and about
- speak lots of french (even w/ Americans)
- find FREE things
- try NOT to buy a coffee or pastry anywhere (this is actually the most difficult in Paris, in fact, nearly impossible... this is the one for which i can be really proud if i accomplish it)
- study like a beast for midterms ( they came too quickly, but who knows, maybe studying french will actually make my french better... WEIRD!)
- put up pictures!!!
-figure out where i'm going for fall break (somewhere CHEAP)

so we'll see, this should be productive!

things that are true

1. i'm terrible with French keyboards...there are too many crazy accent things

2. i'm bad at updating my blog because i was obsessed w/ watching How I Met Your Mother...

but now i'm gonna try REAL hard to be better