Ciao amigos! On my own again, just can't wait to be on my own again... makin' music in my head again, just can't wait to be on my own.. Can you believe my fingers now actually jump to the right keys on this thing! Progress indeed. Oh how the lonely babble. Just jokes... I'm not lonely just alone.. well, now that was a plain lie.
I said Aurevoir to the Wolff's this morning around 9 am and headed on the handy metro to the hostel I had lined up for my cozy first night alone... found it no problem and got a room no problem.. just 20 bucks a night for a room with two bunk beds, a sink, a closet and a snobby ex-patriot around my age who is studying at the Sir Bonne and therefore is my intellectual superior. Not a good way to make friends, Rai. Well, a truth is a truth. I don't need a friend who makes me feel like a mouse. (no offense mousey)
Lucky for me I met a guy in line from Pennysylvania and through him a fella from Colorado who are both totally sound guys. We went to the Musee d'Orsay and took in as many paintings by Degas, Renoir, Monet, Manet, Dhumer, Damier?? and so many more whose names I never studied.. oh yeah.. VanGogh. It was again really cool to see these paintings jump from one slot in my memory, in which they sat on postcards to my current image of them where they belong, surrounded by like images among other works by some masterful creators. I will say there was a lot of it that didn't do it for me, like most of Renoir.. but I guess that's how art is. To each his own. After that (3 hours of that) we went to the carnival and rode the ferris wheel, overlooking all of Paris and then on this adrenalin eride that sent my gut in every direction and had me laughing until the tears were drenching the entire city! It was great, and a nice change from all the kid stuff I've been doing? hmmm. ;)
I'm staying in Paris another day to see Notre Dame, the stain glass windows of the chappel and this art show called "chillida" that is only in town til the 19th of the month.. clued into that one by monsieur Jon Webb of UT! Should be a great visit to modern sculpture... I really want to learn to sculpt and meet Michaelangelo... who has two sculptures in the Louvre which I will also seek out tomorrow. Well, the boys and Paris await.. We're going to the top of the Empire... Eiffel Tower tonight to see the lights of the city that is known for just that. Thanks for all the messages. I will respond.. promise. love and more love. -rai.
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