October, 2012Archive

Oct 30

Yesterday, I met up with a friend and we explored Montmartre. We visited the Sacre Coeur Basilica (unfortunately we couldn’t take pictures inside, but it was really beautiful) and then just walked around, got lunch, and took lots of pictures. Here are some!

Oct 24

Drip. Drip. Drip. Drip. I have a 20 minute presentation due tomorrow on Napoleonic propaganda in the French press. My roof is leaking. It has been for a while, but it stopped, and then it started again and it’s worse than ever. I put a pot on the floor to catch the water. It’s filling […]

Oct 07

Ah. My joy at being registered for courses was very quickly replaced with DREAD. Now it would really begin. I’d sit in class completely lost, struggling to understand professors who’d speak at the speed of light in complicated jargon. What if, contrary to everything I’d heard, class participation was a thing, and professors picked on […]

Oct 04

Oh, did you want to hear about my first days at school, my loves? OH WELL! (I’ll post about it at the end of the week, fear not dear reader…) Because tonight is… The First Presidential Debate!!! There’s actually a Democrats Abroad event going on here at a pub called O’Sullivans, but I am not […]

Gabrielle in Paris