I'm finally devoting one day to getting caught up on my studying. My first exam, Phonetics, is on Tuesday. It's the least consequential one, but then I have Cinema on the 26th and Explorations on the 27th. Grammar is actually two exams, one written, one oral. So once I finish writing this post I'm going to start reviewing prepositions, subjunctives, articles, conditional clauses, etc.
Yesterday was the program trip to Fountainebleau and Vaux-le-Vicomte, two chateaux about an hour outside of Paris. This is the kind of French history that really doesn't interest me; once upon a time there were these guys who had a lot of stuff, and we all agree that it was really cool stuff. Moving on. Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate all the history and intrigue that went on in these places, like the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and Louis XIV's arrest of Fouquet for questionable embezzlement charges, but I feel like it all gets overshadowed by "Look at the Florentine goldwork on this decanter that was given to Henri II in blah blah blah where are the weapons?"
Last night was La Nuit des Musées, an event in which most museums in Paris were open to the public for free. I went back to the Jardin Rodin to take night shots of the statues. They weren't lit up like I thought they'd be, instead the museum was handing out little headlamps to all the patrons. I love the results I got. Hopefully when I'm internationally famous I'll be able to get permission to do this again with some models wearing all black so as to make their bodies almost invisible, drawing all the focus towards the statues and electric glow of the lights.
Thirteen days left here.
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