A few succinct points:
1. I have discovered that I have not gained weight in my 3 weeks here. The only possible explanation, as my diet consists mainly of cheese, bread, and chocolate, is that the enormous amount of walking is the culprit (or in this case, savior).
2. I am putting my long legs to use via walking.
3. I walk fast. Everybody walks quickly here. If you aren't walking with a purpose, you shouldn't even bother to walk, dammit.
4. I am trying to let go of the fear that I will spend too much here. Because truthfully, I will. There is no getting around it in this city. But I figure I worked a lot last semester, and I am young, and only studying abroad in Paris once, so now's the time to blow dat cash.
5. On my walk to classes today I saw a small boy walking alongside his grandmother, I presume. She was holding a balloon and wearing as far from a festive expression as possible. The boy, on the other hand, was dressed in a dapper suit and kept running up behind the balloon and spiking it down a la volleyball every several steps. I kept waiting for the grandmother to have a cow but she didn't and honestly she wouldn't have had the right to be upset. She is carrying a large, colorful, helium-filled object; how can she expect the child not to play?
6. Some mornings I wake up and the Tower is so obscured by the fog that I have a moment of panic and wonder whether I dreamt the whole thing up.
7. I am doing something I usually dislike doing (but I have a good reason for it): reading two books at once. One: Ada or Ardor by Nabokov; Two: Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro. Reviews likely to follow.
8. I am going to Amsterdam this weekend! I will be leaving on Friday morning and returning Sunday evening. There will be four or five of us traveling--a few girls I befriended during orientation and then a few randoms. hopefully all will go smoothly. We are traveling by train. The next post, therefore, will surely be an account of my little Dutch weekend. Censored, but just enough.
Love to all.
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