Jour 14 and 15- Baking a cake and Pere Lachaise Cemetary

Greetings followers,

Monday: Woke up around 12:30 pm and discovered that API Had scheduled a cultural activity for Joy, Jordan, Kylie (she never comes to anything), and I at 2. I hurried to get ready and we were off the center API. I really like that place, you can hang out, go on the computers, eat in the kitchen, etc. .. Students are always in and out.

Our cultural activity (there are three, the first being the cheese tasting with Paschal; second baking is a French dessert with Anne-Marie, and third is going to the perfume museum with Melissa) activities are fun little Dauphine us that students get to do To learn more about French culture. The other students who arrived with us go to Diderot (Paris VII) and they have already started school, so they dont get to attend! ha!

We had scheduled with Anne-Marie to bake a chocolate cake called a French "Mousseaux" or something (was not really paying attention. She practically baked it and we listened. I mostly just watched the pots and stuff in advance to eat the cake .) Typical evans move! A cool thing about French culture is that baking leads to a man's heart apparently. When you bake a sweet dessert and give it to a man, that means you like him. Whatever, I'd just eat the entire thing. Screw the guy! After, we ate the cake and it was delicious! It was a moist chocolate cake with sliced almonds and chopped up candied orange peels. To top it off, you also make a custard sauce that you drizzle ontop of it. It was soooo good, I had two slices and lots of cheese and bread to balance the sugar with the sweet. Usually what I do!

We hung out the API Center for awhile, and then I came home. We went up to the boys room to hang out for a little bit and Amsterdam to discuss plans (so excited!) Then we got some wine (wine everyday keeps the heart healthy!) And headed down to the basement to hang out, play card drinking games, and listen to music. The basement of the FEU is really cool. It has a bunch of layers, a ping pong table, a kitchen, a room with a nice tv for watching movies and tv, and another room with a billiard table and table Fooseball. Ive gone down there a bunch, you meet a lot of people and it's a fun place to hang out. A bunch of people joined us from all over the FIRE. Those from U of Chicago, some guys from Georgia Tech I met the previous night before at the hookah bar. It was a good time, I'm sure it will become a hang out for nights during the week.

Tuesday: Jordan and I woke up early to go to Dauphine to have a doctor's appointment. We did this because we want to sign up for work at Dauphine out classes during the school year .. a little bit of toning, core workouts, kick boxing gold .. we'll see but it sounds cool. It was a rough morning for Jordan though. I told her, "Now dont drink too much bc we HAVE to wake up and go". Of course, I call her in the morning (I'm her mom) and tell her to get up and be ready in 20. She struggled all morning.

After we took the metro to Pere Lachaise Cemetery where we saw many famous French people's serious. It was an extremely cold day, but we braved it out there. We saw many serious including Edith Piaf, Balzac, Chopin, Oscar Wilde, who had a bunch of kisses all over it, and Jim Morrison. I was surprised, his grave was cleaned up after all of the stories I had heard about people leaving siringa and stuff.

After we all got coffee at this cute little cafe and then we went home. Hours after, I went to meet up with the group again for a tour of Montmartre. The artsy district of Paris where you can find the Sacre Coeur. Our tour guide took us along the back streets interesting that not many people visit and we ended up top at the Sacre Coeur, Which is the highest point in Paris. It was beautiful at night, and we took a lot of pictures. Also, we got a tour inside, they were having mass so it was interesting to see how French masses went. Still old fashioned with nuns and the whole scha-bang.

After, we were treated to crepes! Ahhh soo good! I had a cheese, ham, egg and one for dinner and then a nutella and bannana one after! I was so full but so happy!.

The night did not end there. The gang and I decided to buy wine and go to the giant Ferris wheel located at the Champs-Elysees. It is only open during the winter months and that night just so happened to be its last night open. We had to go! So we went to the Champs-Elysees, bought wine, and walked up and down the streets filled with glorious Jimmy Choo, Prada, Hugo Boss, etc.. So classy, I know. We went up the ferris wheel and it was definitely worth it. The view of Paris was amazing. I'm so happy we did it.

After we ran around the field for a while. It was actually one of the more fun nights I've had in Paris. Just buying wine and walking up and down the field is fun. Thank god for drinking in public!. After I retired and went home to bed! Funnn day!

Bye!