Thursday I got up, went to work and did some data research. At 2:30pm, we went to the Residence for a Global Entrepreneurship Week kick off. There, I got a little tour of the bottom floor of the place. It was built a long time ago and then the Rothchilds came in and raised the roof (literally, not like the dancing you kids take part in nowadays). It looks completely different now. They also took the old walls from their other houses and put them in the residence. There's even one room that is really square, but the way the wall panels are, it turned the room into an octagon! Pretty cool. There's also a ballroom which has some John Singer Seargant originals. The discours was pretty interesting, on increasing entrepreneurship amongst the younger generations. It was sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation so the head guy was there. The Ambassador introduced it and so I got to stand pretty close to him. I think I'll probably introduce myself at the July 4th picnic.
After the presentation was over, there was a reception which we were invited to take part in and enjoy the Ambassador's chef's specials. The brownies are famous. They were good, I'll admit. And I hadn't had a brownie in a while. They also had French pastries, thankfully.
After that was over, I went to the Madeleine church, becauese it was close by. I took a few pictures and then went over to the H&M to tackle the downstairs of the store, as I'd only perused the top one the day before. I got tons of cute stuff. I was supposed to meet Ciara for her going-away dinner, but it turned out that she was going with a bunch of Irish people and not really any international students, so we decided that doing lunch the next day would be better. I went home, made dinner, watched some tv and just vegged. It was awesome.
Friday I, of course, did not want to get up. But it was the last day of my first full-time week so I felt a little more excited about that. It was also the ending of my first month as an intern. I couldn't believe a month had already gone by. There was a cook out (NOT a barbeque as they like to call it, because there was no barbeque to be had! Only hot dogs and hamburgers. I would even be okay with them calling it a barbeque if they had bbq sauce to put on the burgers or something! But no, what they had, was a cook-out, on the grill...
I'm very particular. But I do come from Texas where we know our bbq.) Anyway, because I had never heard from Ciara about lunch I had that and it was really good. It's sad we weren't able to meet up, though, because now she's gone back to Castleblaney and I don't know when I'll see her again. I'm hoping to make a trip next year but we'll see. Ranna, one of the interns, heard I was going to Nice (in the South of France) July 5-6 and offered to give me some advice about where to go because her family owns a house there and they summer there every year. (She's from California.) I'll be excited to go to the beach. But this
weekend: Berlin! I already looked up tons of things to do and I may do a free walking tour.
I think I'm also meeting up with a friend from middle school who is studying abroad there.
I'm thinking about my final trips before I go: July 26-7 Prague, August 2-3 2 of the 4 following choices: Bordeaux, Chantilly, Champagne, and Giverny (probably will end up being Champagne and Bordeaux), and August 9-10 Barcelona where hopefully Liz will meet up with me.
Work ended and I went to the Louvre to finish the museum. I saw some really cool paintings and even something from an exhibition that was in Brussels a few weeks ago- this really modern artist makes things out of these beetles that are multi-colored, sort of like the colors of male peacock feathers. You know, how they change. Anyway, it was neat. I stayed until I finished the Dutch paintings and saw Napoleon III's apartments and then went home.
It was a successful day. I had a great meal for dinner, did some laundry, showered, talked to my family and then had time for just a little nap before I had to leave for the airport.
Again, I was going to Orly, but this time it was even more complicated to get there.
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