I still haven’t started classes yet, but I’m seriously looking forward to it.  Classes in Art History at the Sorbonne-Paris IV start on October 6th, and since I was sick last week, my classes at Sweet Briar start this Wednesday!  I’m not sure what to expect as far as coursework and as far as the workload, but it will be amazing to finally get to go to school.  I hope my French improves exponentially.

I can’t deny that it has been nice to have such a long vacation, especially in Paris!  In my free time, I’ve been wandering the metro stops of Paris, and one of my favorite events was going with the head of the “Paris Photography” group on couchsurfing.com to the Père Lachaise cemetary where I saw Jim Morrison’s grave.  There is a garde that stands in front of his grave now, because some crazy fans have done things like try to light fire on his tomb… I really want to go back to that cemetary though, because I think I can take some interesting pictures there.

Speaking of pictures, I haven’t taken very many because of my illness (which I’m now over, YAY), but I will get back out there ASAP.

Yesterday, I went with my friend, Yukti, from Wellesley to a United States Collegiate recruiting event at the Marriott Rive Gauche.  We met up with two beautiful and intelligent alumnae of Wellesley College to (wo)man the Wellesley College booth.  Both Yukti and I were perfect candidates for selling Wellesley College to Parisian/American high school students, because right now we are both missing Wellesley so much.  It was really wonderful to be able to talk about how much I loved my college, and to be a little homesick, not to mention meet all of these motivated young women at our booth.  Afterward, there was a heck of a reception with some beautiful and tasty pastries, and really rich red wine.  Mmmmm….