When you see this building, what would you guess it is? A castle? Somewhere to house France's royalty? A fashion house? Something amazing? NO IT'S CITY HALL. That's right.. this majestic building is home to Paris's local administration. Jeez, I'm embarrassed for our city halls.
So their city hall, aka l'Hôtel de Ville, is located in the center of Paris, near Notre Dame, and my class took a field trip there this week. We were also with a group of french high school students so that was pretty cool. They were divas. Here's a look at the beauty on the inside:
WOW
It's so beautiful! However, these glamorous hard wood floors were anything but beautiful when we figured out how squeaky they were. I excused myself for a moment to go to the bathroom and had to walk across a giant ballroom to meet back up with my group and all my teachers were giving my the stink eye as the floor squeaked and squeaked, announcing my arrival. Awkward.
Other than that majestic field trip, I had a pretty easy week. Today is a holiday so we don't have school. Second 4 day weekend in a row! This week I also completed a presentation in french class and turned in my twelve page art history paper! Such a relief. My entire class celebrated with happy hour cocktails after turning in the essay we had been complaining about for weeks. Well that's it, just a quick update since I don't have much time left to blog :(
Not a fun fact this time but fun story: I was on the metro last night and a french man who was not from Paris was asking me a bunch of questions (in french) about the metro and paris transportation and I felt great since he couldn't tell that I was NOT Parisian, and also did not change to english upon hearing my accent. :)
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