busy week of busy-ness.

I was slack with the photos, but I can recap anyway. After my long weekend in amsterdam and my busy parisian tuesday which you would have read about if you are following this blog, i spent the wednesday and thursday doing mosaics, hence the finished mosaic in the previous blog. Thursday was such a nice day we decided after class to have an evening picnic in buttes chaumont, a man made park, which is very pretty. We had lots of cheese, bread and wine. The park closed at sunset, but that was around 8:45pm anyway.

Friday, last french lesson for two weeks! Hooray! Theeeen, we picked up the essential macarons from Laduree before heading to the cinametique to see the Stanley Kubrick exhibition. They didnt allow photos in the exhibition, but I bought the book because it was awesome. For those of you who dont know, Stanley Kubrick is the director of some of the best films ever made. The Shining, Clockwork Orange, 2001 Space Odyssey, Eyes wide shut, Dr Strangelove, Spartacus, and many others. The exhibition had props from the movies, scrips, film clips, photos and much more. It was really great to see.

After the exhibition we went to Gare du Nord to pick up Michelles friend Fiona who stayed with her for the weekend, and then we went to Angelinas for hot chocolate, and then to Abbys for dinner.

I have fallen in love with these potatos. Seriously. So cheap, so tasty. We also had roast chicken, it was very yummy. After that, Michelle, Fiona and I headed to a cocktail bar nearer to my place to meet up with Erin. The place was very cool, you can make your own cocktails there and its very fun. I'd had a few already and couldnt be bothered to choose, so I let the lady who couldnt drink at the table make one up for me. She did well, it was very nice. It ended up being walking distance home, but the bridge I cross to get home (the one covered in padlocks) seems to become a party bridge for young students. It was packed full of french students drinking and singing and playing music and having fun! It looked amazing.

Saturday.

Morning. I met the girls at my favourite market and bought some little things for my paris collection.  I also found the usual qwirky things.

Spider in a ball?

Metro sign?

cute little bottles of perfume.

Salt and pepper shakers...

Cars.

It was fun. I got badges and old postcards and stuff. I like stuff. After this we walked home to Abbys which was relatively close by for left over chicken rolls for lunch. We then went to the Champs Eylees for H & M times. Which was painful. So busy. I wanted to kill a woman. I will stop there before I get angry again. haha.

We stopped at Laduree again so Fiona could try some awesome macarons. ( I didnt buy any! I swear!). And then it was off to the Haagen Dazs cafe.

It was amazing.

The girls all got big icecream things which were beautiful, but I got an awesome milkshake that filled me up just nicely as we were heading to Michelles soon for Fondue times!

Michelles consisted of drinking, a massive tub of fondue cheese, homemade crepes by Lauren with lemon butter, and a massive cake thing. It was a lovely night.

Okay. SUNDAY.

Today we actually slept in, finally. But at 12pm we met up at the Science museum because they are having a science fiction exhibition. It was pretty cool.

Battle star gallactica!

Story board from Star Wars

Star trek uniforms.

Marty McFlys jacket in Back to the future.

The newspaper from back to the future.

The tomb stone from back to the future.

We were on tv!

C3P0

Robby the Robot

Terminator!

A different terminator..

I was in the matrix!

This was where my camera died, but it was an amazing exhibition, there was so much in it. Its fun to see some movie exhibitions instead of always the art ones.

So to round it all off, monday came, and I'm in Brussels. I get back into Paris on Friday afternoon, and I'll update brussels stuff then. I'm still the busiest woman at the moment. No wasted time here!

Mosaic update

So last week I managed to get another mosaic almost finished.

Its only small, but its very colourful and I'm happy with it.

And of course, its food. PIZZA.

I used only glass mosaics, which i cut into shards for the cheese, little squares for the green and tiny squares for the pepperoni.

I created the crust out of mortar.

Almost finished, I've coloured some morter and begun to give the crust some colour.

I dont get to work on it again til the last week of April, but I'm happy with the progress.

If only I could be that quick at woodcutting, which I started on thursday.

Just another Tuesday morning. With Napoleon.

So today Michelle Abby and I decided to get some culture in before we head to our afternoon french class. Michelle wanted to see musee Rodin which none of us had done yet so we headed there for opening. The line was already quite long but we got in quickly and for free which is always good.

The building is quite impressive and the grounds are very beautiful.

Rodin's sculptures are scattered throughout the garden as well as in the main gallery.

The thinker.

The building was very impressive, a worthy setting for the works of Rodin.

Paris is so green now! Its beautiful.

A painting of Rodin's thinker by Munch.

The pieces were numerous and very impressive, he must have worked very hard his life to have so many pieces. The skill in each is amazing.

Across the road from the museum is Invalides where the crypt of Napoleon rests. The building is very impressive and the grounds are massive.

You dont realise how grand it is til you go inside. The ceiling paintings were amazing.

His tomb is huge. You could fit so many people in that coffin thing...

Everything is very grand, just how napoleon liked it.

Holy hand grenade!

The grounds has many canons.

Beaucoup de canon!

They also had an exhibition showing the armor, costumes and weaponry of the French army through the ages. It was very interesting. I wanted the jackets and hats.

Invisible horse!

In one of what we presumed were moats we saw a man playing with his dog, the dog was so playful!

We then headed on a 3km walk to uni, where I left the girls to walk home for an hour before french.

French was pretty average, like it is on most tuesdays, so we heading to Laduree for some cake cheering up.

It was perfect!

I then rested at home for an hour or so before meeting Lauren for dinner at an Irish pub... the service was terrible but the company was great.

Now its back to uni work for the next few days, but we have collectively decided to plan in advance things to do and see in paris for the weekend. We will have a busy weekend before I head to Brussels next monday.

I am finally caught up with the blogs! Thanks for being patient. As always there are more photos on my facebook if you want to see more. Feel free to leave comments.

I miss you all!