Le Week-End

Springtime is finally in Paris! The rain has gone away and the sunshine is here! The city is beautiful again. I'm even sunburned where I missed a spot with the suntan lotion. I guess that's what happens when you apply sunscreen while riding a bike through the busy streets of Paris.

Here's what I did this weekend:

1. Met with my company about our field project
2. Went to drinks and dinner with long lost fellow Davidsonian, Dan Wingate
3. Slept in
4. Painted my finger and toenails
5. Figured out the basic concepts of leveraged finance
6. Wondered if the two beers I drank during the figuring out process only made me think I understood leveraged finance
7. Decided I didn't care
8. Ate a hot dog
9. Feel asleep while watching "Groundhog Day" for the 55th time
10. Woke up in time to have drinks (a Seabreeze I might add!) with Jody
11. Moved to another bar to meet our friend Erna
12. Realized my French has gotten a little worse after 3 weeks away
13. Slept in again
14. Met some friends for brunch down the street
15. Rode bikes along the Seine for hours and hours
16. Discovered Bercy Village (so cute!)
17. Rode my bike home
18. Rode my bike to a birthday dinner in St. Germain
19. Rode my bike home
20. Wondered if I maybe shouldn't have had 3 glasses of wine at dinner
21. Decided I didn't care
22. Said good-night to my bike when I put it back in it's little Velib (Paris rental bikes) home

Alors, there was a lot of bike riding today. I think I'm going to buy my own because it's so fun. Watch out Paris!

Normandie

Normandie

I've been meaning to post these pictures since October, which is when I took this trip to Normandie with my classmates Gaby, Tyler & Fabio. We had a great time that included some adventures such as:

1. Me drinking lots of tea after Fabio told me I couldn't because he didn't want to stop to go to the bathroom
2. Me panicking when Fabio really wouldn't stop to let me go to te bathroom an hour later
3. Being lost in the darkest, most middle-of-nowehere I have ever been (everytime our headlights hit the road, we saw stray cats and other unidentifiable road animals)
4. Realizing about 3 months later that "a driote" means "go right" and "tout driote" means "go straight" -- this information would have saved us from adventure #3
5. Being pulled over by the French police in a routine roadblock (in the darkest, most middle-of-nowhere, where there could not have been more than 2 cars passing per hour)

The list goes on and I hope that I will get it together soon to complete the story. Other news -- I'm excited that it's finally Springtime in Paris! I had a great trip home last week to go to Lacy's beautiful wedding (so now I'm a little homesick and missing everyone more than usual). I got put on the field project that I wanted (yay!) and classes end in about 3 weeks (double yay! because I won't have to go out to Cergy anymore).

No Plans Are the Best Plans

Lake Como

After Florence, I met Laura and we hopped on a train to Como for a little weekend adventure.

School Field Trip (not your usual trip to the Children's Museum)

Milan & Florence

Here are some pictures from our recent school trip to visit companies in Milan & Florence.

Loire Valley Adventure

Loire Valley

Captions still being updated. Beth and I had a great time driving around the Loire on my Spring Break. I've posted lots of pictures of chateaux and such and I'll post some more of Paris this week. Sorry to be so out of touch! I'm not sure I've even been that busy. Lots has happened this winter so I will be sure to do some updates.