This was yet another one of those weeks that just flew by, without a lot actually happening. It felt like everything on my "to do" list couldn't put off any longer, so I didn't really sleep much. On Monday we had design work due, which was hard to pull off since I had been in Helsinki over the weekend, so I did some experimental study models and hoped for the best. Tricia (my awesome studio professor) was cool enough to let me skip the first half of class so that I could work a shift at the student café (called the K'fet). So while everyone else was falling asleep listening to presentation after presentation, I was chilling out with my French friend Alex and drinking endless supplies of free coffee!
Our Spain travel sketchbooks were due the next day, so everyone stayed up all night filling in missing diagrams and coloring in things that we had intended (and forgotten) to color in. I spent the evening working on job applications and researching Italy travel costs. Wednesday was a structures class walking tour, and Jeff took us to a bridge called the Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir. It was a pretty cool wavy-looking structure, so we sketched there for a while and took a look at President Mitterand's modern Bibliothèque Nationale too. I allowed myself one hour of fun afterwards: I went to the Latin Quarter and had a crêpe for lunch (nutella + bananas = yum!) and then had coffee by the Fontaine Saint-Michel. I hung out with my host sisters that night, who were playing with toy horses and jumping on my bed for about an hour. Priceless.
On Thursday, my friends and I signed up for morning desk critiques, because in the afternoon we were going to Paris for the Taylor Swift concert! We got to the Zénith de Paris, a medium-sized concert venue, which was out on the Northeast side of the city. It was a weird situation, to say the least -- half of the people there were Americans abroad, and the other half were young French girls and their non-fan boyfriends. The show wasn't even sold out! I only saw one guy wearing a cowboy hat... I mean, TSwift is more pop than country, but these French people clearly don't know or care much about her. Next time I see her in concert, I want to be in Nashville or somewhere crazy like that where they really know how to party to country music.
Nevertheless, I freaked out when Taylor came onstage, and I was only 10 feet away from her the whole time! She was WAY better live than I expected -- pretty much flawless, not at all like some of her live performances I had seen on TV. She sang mostly Speak Now songs with a few from Fearless, though sadly nothing from her original self-titled album. We knew basically every word to every song, and Andrea and I were super excited when she sang "Dear John." The gorgeous outfits, the pretty guitars, the talent... I just want to be her. That's all. (We tried meeting her afterwards at the stage door, but to no avail. Next time!) We got home very late the night and struggled through structures class and a structures exam the next day. It was easy, at least. Now it's time to catch up on homework and prepare myself for our intensive history seminar with William Curtis again next week!
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