We found OUR daily bakery this morning and let me tell you, America should be embarrassed by their sad excuse of a croissant. Words cannot describe how good they are here! This morning me, Monica, Torey, Christine x 2, Courtney, and Alyssa all went to mass at Notre Dame. The building is absolutely beautiful. It blows my mind how it was built back in the day. Crazy stuff. I feel bad because I was asking Courtney questions the entire time. It was a very cool experience. Most of it was in French and Latin so I couldn't really understand what they were saying/what was going on, but I still enjoyed it. Parts of it were in English. The only bad thing is that the old man in front of me and Courtney kept letting off stink bombs. Not literally, but let's just say I want to find out what bakery he went to before mass and never go there.
After church we wandered through the islands over there and got some ice cream. I decided on pear, which at first taste I thought tasted like play dough, but then it grew on me. The ice cream is not even comparable to the United States. It is so fresh, I actually felt like I was eating a pear. We sat on a ledge that overlooked a river and ate it. I could really get used to this lifestyle (aside from my fear of falling in the river or dropping something). We then walked throughout the nearby shops.
We (and by we, I mean Monica) spotted Emma Thompson from Love Actually and apparently a million other movies (as Torey later pointed out) in a candy shop. We creepily followed her. Debated whether or not to go up to her and ask if it is HER. Not knowing her name at the time me and Christine brave it out as Christine asks "Were you in Love Actually?" Her response was "Well yes I was." We then talked to her for a while. She could not have been nicer. I guess that basically makes us famous then. Poor Monica, the spotter, wasn't there for the convo because she was hobbling behind with her torn up foot from her flats (long walk to Notre Dame).
Later we walked the rest of the city, came back, napped, went for dinner, and now we are back. Not going to do anything too rambunctious tonight because we have an early and LONGGGGG day tomorrow. We have our orientation for ESCP Europe (our place of study). It is supposed to be from 9 am to 6:30 pm. Rough. As long as we get a long lunch break, I'm fine. Expect a long list of complaints and passive aggressive comments for tomorrow's blog post!
Word of the day: eau = water (came in handy tonight at dinner as Torey asked for seconds, don't know how she has picked up on the French accent so well, props)
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