One Blink and My Heart Wasn't There

What every 16 year old girl should do:
-ride on the back of a motorcycle the length of the louvre, down the famous boulevards of Paris, France, 10.00pm, and witness the City of Lights in all it's beaming glory.

The city sparkles at night, the buildings go blurry if you stare too long because they're lit up so bright. The Eiffel Tower, and City Hall, the Grand Palais, Champs Elysees, the churches and schools and museums and theaters and restaurants and apartments and gardens and cemeteries and metro stations and shopping malls and luxury stores and markets and monuments and statues and -- I never want to leave. But I want you all here. Come here! :) The people are so much nicer and the food is better and .. you'll see. I wish i could show it all with my eyes or with words.

Suddenly I'm bright and breezy, because of all the beautiful and new things I'm learning about you, day by day. wow that's not what I was trying to type. I'm listening to that song on youtube :)

The ballet we saw tonight was the most interesting thing I've seen on stage. It was interpretive and bazaar... projected behind the dancers was a scream with abstract people diving into a pool and.. being abstract and swimming and being happy, and some of them were naked and then the dancers on stage appeared on the screen with the swimming people and then their was a sand castle and... it was weird. i loved it.

Beforehand we went to dinner in the building the theater is in and there was a MAGNIFICENT view of the Eiffel Tower. Every hour for 5 minutes it lights up and sparkles. It's magical.

I get to sleep in tomorrow. I meet the girls at the school at 11.15 so we can get lunch before the movie at 12.15. I accidentally confused everyone today when I asked which theater it would be at... They all looked at me and said, "no, we're going to a movie" (except in french) and i said yeah, which theater? Turns out they call it the cinema.


I really want to come back to France soon so I can see the rest of Europe. I really want to see Italy. And the south of France, the islands where Brigitte's parents live. She told me Monaco was near there. I have to see Monaco before I die, it's on my list. I really want to see London, too. Not that I couldn't live in Paris for the rest of my life and never see everything... But the kids at school tell me such great things about other places. They're all bored with Paris. How does that happen???


Anywho, more later. I'm going to bed.

xox- OH, pictures. here. pictures take a long time to resize and rotate...



just the view from the balcony at the apartment. im too tired to resize the ones from tonight. they'll be upp soon.