Paris is a wonderful city full of wonderful food and wonderful sights. And now that i'm alive after my first quiz and have my server back online, we have the beginning of photo marathons.
First. This is the outside of where i live.
The words read: "Foundation of the US" as you can probably figure out. Which doesn't actually mean anything, it's an international dorm and there are people here from lots of places, and the people who work here don't understand english. Which isn't too bad, because you're forced to learn french to express basic human needs like "the sink in my room is leaking", "i would like to buy some of your hideously expensive laundry tokens please" and "help why can i not get a password for the internet? Has the guy spontaneously taken leave for 3 days?"
This is my spartan but soon becoming homely room:
The more observant of you will note the presence of milo on the shelf, which unfortunately is difficult to make in the absence of a hot water making device, but tastes pretty good with cold Volvic anyway. Also the source of illumination at night is an upturned reading lamp which serves pretty well, really.
This is a face of 1/4 of my favourite pillar:
It's Esus, the gallic god of the Harvest on the pillar of Nautes, and my favourite stone pillar of the moment.
This is food i windowshop for:
Because window shopping for food is a complete and utter possibility. Everything here is really pretty and creative, and i've seen utterly amazing creations of food and confectionary which look too good to eat, and are usually also too expensive to eat on a regular basis. Those little cakes above? $4 Euro apiece.
This is what i ate:
Which is a really good pizza. In the background is a salmon and cream cheese pizza, which was also pretty good stuff. Interesting food to be found here, but a great lack of vegetables, so i'm beginning to fruit a lot. Today by mistake I ate the best strawberry (singular) of my life, which came from a bunch which cost $24 Euroes per kg. It was a happily unfortunate mistake by my friend, placed cunningly as it was underneath the huge "4.90 Euroes per kg for strawberries" sign, and next to the tiny sign stating the actual price. It was DAMN GOOD though. A nice uniform raspberry reddish color, nice and soft and slightly bouncy, but firm on the inside and totally sweet, without that slight sour tang which often accompanies strawberries. Gosh. I could totally eat those strawberries until i develop some form of food allergy.
As for what i do with my time.... that's the subject of the next post.
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