in a nutshell

Bonjour all! Time is passing by so quickly here and somehow I have less than three weeks left. I'm going to try to explain what I've been up to without making it painstakingly detailed. I took my trip to Copenhagen to visit Greg and stayed with his host family who are so incredibly warm and welcoming. Lisbeth made so much food for us all the time and that even includes a bunch of traditional Danish dishes that I normally would not have chosen to eat, such as ollebrod, the beer bread soup. We went around Copenhagen, took a day trip to Malmo in Sweden, went to the Louisiana Modern Art Museum, ate a lot, hated on some Swedes, loved on some Danes and participated in some general Danish activities. Needless to say, it was an absolutely lovely weekend, even looking past the Scandinavian cold (yes, we saw snow). Came home to Paris, celebrated Misha's birthday (!), went to some markets, babysat for the girls, mooched off of Caroline's food, went to school, and avoided my homework. That's pretty much last week in a nutshell. All of the sudden it was Thanksgiving, and Mom was here! It was so much fun and so exciting to see her especially because she could see for herself that I wasn't withering away and am in fact spending 99 percent of my money on food. We went to a restaurant in Butte aux Cailles, a little cobblestone-street neighborhood right by me, had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with Caroline and Misha at their apartment that included some kind of small birds, sweet potatoes, and green beans, went to the Musee d'Orsay, Pere Lachaise cemetery (where we didn't see anyone famous), hung out in the Marais and had falafel, drank wine, and had dessert, went to the Raspail market where mom experienced her first Parisian street market and we found this incredible bread with figs in it, Cemetery Montparnasse where we saw lots of famous people but we couldn't find Man Ray, went back to the Marais for croque-monsieur dinners, and somehow avoided a weekend of bad weather. Yay! After so many wonderful weekends, it's time for me to buckle-down, write some of this paper, and study for my three hour exam on Saturday. Woot.

gros bisous!