I am sorry and pardon me.... SO useful. My French improves everyday. I have found a new friend named Hummy. She lives two doors down from me and is in the same program as me. I enjoy getting to know her, as every English conversation with any resemblence of things I know from the U.S. feels like a small bit of home.
This morning we did lots of tourist things, Notre Dome, The Eiffel Tower, Bastille etc.... Notre Dame was my favorite. They were in the middle of mass and there was something touching and sad about the whole thing. It made my eyes water. The cathedral no longer belongs to the church but the state, so while they are still permitted to conduct mass, tourist are circulating around the outer part taking pictures and talking...so strange.
All I could think was how this building left me speechless with its beauty, but how the whole reason it was that way was because of a corrupt church many years ago, built a treasury off of people's fears of being damned to hell and prayers that had to be paid for. The Eiffel tower is everything I wanted it to be. It didn't matter how many times I had seen it on a movie or in a picture; it is one of the most romantic things I have ever seen.
I am waiting to go see it at night and am holding out riding to the top for right now. My classes start on Tuesday at the Sorbonne, which is a latin language school affiliated with the University of Paris. My sleeping is still not so on track. It doesn't get dark here until ten o'clock in the pm. I am overwhelmed with how many different kinds of people gather in Paris. I love love love it. I miss all of you and feel the love and prayers that cover me so well. Bon soiree!
I am sorry and pardon me.... SO useful. My French improves everyday. I have found a new friend named Hummy. She lives two doors down from me and is in the same program as me. I enjoy getting to know her, as every English conversation with any resemblence of things I know from the U.S. feels like a small bit of home. 
This morning we did lots of tourist things, Notre Dome, The Eiffel Tower, Bastille etc.... Notre Dame was my favorite. They were in the middle of mass and there was something touching and sad about the whole thing. It made my eyes water. The cathedral no longer belongs to the church but the state, so while they are still permitted to conduct mass, tourist are circulating around the outer part taking pictures and talking...so strange. 
All I could think was how this building left me speechless with its beauty, but how the whole reason it was that way was because of a corrupt church many years ago, built a treasury off of people's fears of being damned to hell and prayers that had to be paid for. The Eiffel tower is everything I wanted it to be. It didn't matter how many times I had seen it on a movie or in a picture; it is one of the most romantic things I have ever seen. 
I am waiting to go see it at night and am holding out riding to the top for right now. My classes start on Tuesday at the Sorbonne, which is a latin language school affiliated with the University of Paris. My sleeping is still not so on track. It doesn't get dark here until ten o'clock in the pm. I am overwhelmed with how many different kinds of people gather in Paris. I love love love it. I miss all of you and feel the love and prayers that cover me so well. Bon soiree! 
2 comments:
kimmy,
miss you in the great NYC. seems though that paris is a little more romantic in many respects. i am loving the pictures you are postingn. i hear a ton of french speaking up here (real french & "pardon the french" languages). there is a great french school on the UES that draws many french people to dwell in this area. so, diversity is very high here too. wish i could visit the grand paris! can't wait to see you in person and hear the stories. many blessings as you dwell in His presence in a different part of the world. enjoy today.
g
kimmy,
miss you in the great NYC. seems though that paris is a little more romantic in many respects. i am loving the pictures you are postingn. i hear a ton of french speaking up here (real french & "pardon the french" languages). there is a great french school on the UES that draws many french people to dwell in this area. so, diversity is very high here too. wish i could visit the grand paris! can't wait to see you in person and hear the stories. many blessings as you dwell in His presence in a different part of the world. enjoy today.
g
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