Quiet Weekend…

This weekend was pretty quiet and cultural, esp. compared to last weekend.  Friday started with an art history lesson.  Our art history teacher tends to bring several boxes of slides, as her goal was to cover the Louvre on Friday.  She also likes to say “on continue” between EVERY slide.  It gets pretty intense.  I kept a tally of the amount of times she said it.  Sometimes she mixes it up with “nous continuons,” but those are more rare.  I’ll get back to you with the official numbers later.

After that Anna and I returned to my house to find a GIANT package from my mother filled with gifts for my family.  They were pretty excited about it.  I’d like to note that in this box, all I received was a pair of socks.  I went ahead and took the Reese’s Cups as well.  Like I was gonna give those up. After recovering the gorgeous flowers Matt sent me, we went to  the Cyrano (movie theater down the street) and saw Friends With Money IN ENGLISH (with French subtitles.)

Saturday, we took the train to Chartres for the day to see the Cathedral and hang out.  There was some sort of RIDICULOUS medieval fair going on.  Everyone was in full costume.  It involved such things as authentic music and random cows.  I can’t really be sure.  The highlight of the day, of course, being the lovely purse I bought.  Saturday ended with us seeing the band of the French student who went to Furman last year.  It was pretty hilarious and interesting.  It is also pretty fun to go to concerts with your professor, let me tell you.

Today, Anna and I went to see the horses at the stables across from the chateau.  They have a dressage show there and we watched the practice for it.  The stables were gorgeous.  This afternoon I may have discovered my new favorite hobby.  After I spilt from Anna, I went to a cafe alone and had some ice cream and read.  It was really cute and fun, even though I had some issues with the ordering in French.  But now, grammar HW is calling my name… You know you are jealous.