I'm back in Europe, France to be exact, for another adventure! I'm an English assistant in two high schools in a small town called Saint Etienne, 40 minutes outside of Lyon (the larger, more well known city in the Rhone-Alpes region, which is also the gastronomical capital of the world !!!).
It was smooth sailing from Honolulu to Paris, where I spent a few days walking around like a zombie, as the time difference is 12 hours, exactly half a world apart. It was a fairly odd feeling to be wandering a city that was strangely familiar, yet incredibly unfamiliar at the same time. We arrived on Sunday morning, which was night time for my body (and brain more or less), so to avoid taking a day long nap and staying up all night, I went to the Centre Pompidou, the museum for modern art.
Sunday is family day for les Francais, and as I walked around half in a daze, I overheard some French children talking to their parents about how some of the paintings reminded them of Picasso. I thought to myself, in what universe would you ever hear something like that from the mouth of a child not more than 10 years old, and then I saw this:
I guess when practically nothing else is open on Sundays, you take the family to look at art and let the kids do as they please.
On to the next day, and Versailles! (aka one of the reasons behind the French revolution)
We were lucky to have nice weather, as it was still cloudy and gray back in the city.
After a few nice (but rainy) days in Paris, I made my way down to Lyon and then to Saint Etienne where the weather has been sunny but rather chilly, at least to someone used to 80 degree weather.
More to come!
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