Dancing Through Life

Not a whole lot going on today. Church was great. I really love the English Sunday School. I have never fully appreciated Adult Sunday School and now I do. I like the people in there and I like that we get visitors almost every week to add their opinions to the mix. It is a good class. I'm glad that they offer it. Also, there is a little boy who comes with his mom (probably a little over a year old) who looks kind of like my nephew SJ. He has big blue eyes and blonde hair that curls softly in the back. Aw. However, SJ's hair has a strawberry blonde tint to it and he has amazing dimples, so they look a little bit different :) After church, we headed back to our place. I have been studying for religion. I hope all goes well tomorrow!

So I thought I was doing pretty good with the Walks. We started out with 21 and I was down to 11 (but really 10 because #21 is basically just walking aimlessly). Then I looked at the calender and realized that I only have 3 full weekends left because I have Normandy, Loire Valley, England, and then Finals week (which is when the walks are due). I figured out that I would have to do a walk every free weekend-day for the rest of the time here, including today! So even though I needed to study for religion, I went on a walk today because I needed to do that too. I went with Hanna and did Walk #18: Grands Boulevards Walk (yes, grands is supposed to be plural). It wasn't bad. Here's a bit of an intro: "Baron Haussmann, under the direction of Napoleon III, directed the transformation of Paris into a modern city from 1852 to 1870. 'Under no government was the city so drastically restructured as under Napoleon III and Haussmann. A new network of streets tore into the old struc...

I went to Simply Market today (I know that I swore I wouldn't go again, but Rosalie and I figured out that if we don't bring anything with us, we don't get harassed). I've been wanting peanuts for a while. I figured they'd be really expensive because peanut butter (if you ever can find it) is super expensive and peanut M&Ms are also really expensive. Well, I found a bag of peanuts today and they were not expensive. They were only .77 euros. Not bad! I was pleased :) Anyway, today I am just working on homework. I'd love to go out because the weather isn't too bad, but I really need to get homework done. I need to write half a page for French (doesn't seem like much, but it is when you have to write in a different language), work on my religion presentation, and study for the three tests I have coming up next week! I think I can, I think I can... :)

We all awoke early today and headed onto one of the grand lignes that took us to Chartres. The ride was about an hour and a half. Not bad. Ah!! Isn't it beautiful? I love it. Notre Dame de Paris ain't got nothing on Chartres. I love it. I have been wanting to see it ever since I learned about it in AP Art History. I had no idea that in about a year from that time, I would see it with my own eyes! Incredible. Quaint town around the cathedral. Wouldn't mind living here! A strange sculpture, bench thing. You see all those tiny sculptures? Awesome! More of the town. It was a long way down from the wall. Back of Chartres. Chartres crop circle. This makes me think of Beauty and the Beast. I can't remember who he was. He was the first bishop of Chartres or something like that. Our guide told us that when they unveiled the statue, someone in the crowd said, "They've unearthed him!" It is a strange sculpture haha The whiter part is the part that they cleaned. They ...