This is my second day in Paris, and it was just peachy! We went to Sacré Coeur, saw a bunch of sights, ate lunch at an overly touristy restaurant nearby. In the evening, we stopped by the biology laboratories at the University of Paris where Marion, the teacher I'm with, has some friends doing research. They were working on radioactive material and are seriously underfunded and will possibly have babies with three arms some day. 'I went to Paris and all I got was this lousy radiation poisoning.' How's that for a souvenir? Fortunately, I didn't go into the lab, I just stayed in the equivilant of an over crowded TA's office with three desks. After about a half an hour, one of the TA's came in for his desk, but no one introduced him and he didn't say anything; I thought he was just grumpy having his workspace taken over. When he got up and left, I heard him talking in the hallway, and it turns out he is an American who doesn't speak French....couldn't quite figure out why no one thought to introduce us, but I thought it was good that in all that time of being in the same room with him, I didn't let an English word of frustration slip or do anything that would otherwise give away my nationality.
After this visit, we went to the Louvre for way too short of time, and then we went and saw what I had been waiting for- Paris at night. It was fantasically beautiful, with the Champs Elysees lit up, the Eiffel Tour shimmering in the background and the ferris wheel and all of the other great Parisien landmarks all ready for Christmas. Time for bed. Good night!
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