Le week-end!

Hello all!

Let's talk about my weekend shall we? First, Saturday night was Nuit Blanche. An annual event that occurs in various parts of Paris. Many art installations/exhibits, performances, videos, are available to view all night long. The night began at 7pm and went until about 6am the next day. There were a few birthdays going on this weekend for some people in our program so we decided to group up that evening to celebrate with them and then we all headed out to Nuit Blanche "ensemble."

Unfortunately the majority of us got separated and only ended up seing a few of the art installations but it didn't really matter. The city was alive and everyone was out all night long! My friends and I enjoyed walking the streets of Paris until about 6am when we decided it was time to call it quits.

The next day was museum day! On the first Sunday of every month the majority of the museums in the city are free. A select few are also free all the time for those under the age of 26. Despite my late bedtime from the previous night, I managed to crawl out of bed and hit up the farmers market for the essential weekly vegetable supply and then headed over to the Pompidou with a friend. Pompidou, a museum for modern art, is very close to my house so thankfully I didn't have to walk far.

It has a great view of the city once you get to the top:

Here are some nameless art pieces we viewed while there:

Today, Monday, I went to my University, Paris 8 - Saint Denis and registered for the courses that I will be taking this semester. It looks like I will be taking 3 French as a Foreign Language courses, all revolving around grammar, written and oral expression. 1 Cinema class that involves editing so I am very excited about that. And one course that is provided by my program MICEFA, called "French Civilization through Cinema" which starts this Wednesday. It looks like I will have Thursdays and Fridays off, so here's to long weekends and traveling! Or perhaps on the more sensible side, a job...

-Michael