à Paris

I always felt that my years and years of french classes were an utter waste of time thinking they were only good to get my language requirement out of the way since I would never use it. Spanish is definitely more useful in California however I take back everything I said about studying French for it ACTUALLY came in handy! I could understand a lot of people's conversations and phrases. I could form semi decent sentences and people could respond to me. It was quite gratifying.

Upon the train ride to Paris, we met up with a new friend Ahmed. He asked us merely where the trash can was (apparently in London, public trash cans are not as common as in America) and knew right away we were Americans as well. We began talking about our project and he accompanied us on our journey through the streets of Paris.

For lunch we were able to stop by a suggested crepe place and let me say it definitely blows the one in Santa Monica out of the water. The shop was a single owner shop with one old man who cooks and lives in the back. We told him were were les Metteur en scènes and he was more than happy to have us film there. (more accurately I'm un caméraman). It was weird to have someone so willing to allow us to film there. He was honored in fact that since we were only in Paris for two days and decided to eat at his crepe shop.

Our Hostel was in the Montmartre district in Paris. We immediately saw Basilique du Sacré Cœur and it is an incredible structure. Beautiful architecture and an amazing skyline view of Paris. Unfortunately the fog got in the way of some amazing footage and pictures but as the french say, c'est la vie.

We blazed through the rest of the sites hitting the classic Eiffel Tower, l'Arc de Triomphe, Musée du Louvre, and the Moulin Rouge. All really cool sites I never dreamed of seeing when I heard of them in French Class. I can truly understand how beautiful the french language is (being the language of love) and how absolutely incredible the sites were. I wish I had a few more days in Paris. I'll definitely come back next time I travel.