Murphy's Law July 5th





Today was quite the day. My morning started when I woke up early to be ready at 7:15 to head to Rue Dauphine with my group for shooting...at 7:21 I got a message saying they left without me. That was where we began. I chased them down to Rue Dauphine on some Liam Neeson taken level determination only to be told to just go to the Sorbonne upon my arrival. No. I found them. (actually we just ran into one another, but still) I had used overage data for that. We continued onto class where I enjoyed this confection from a different patisserie than the previous few days and I actually prefer this one! It has the more croissant, flaky texture I sort of expect out to the pain aux raisins. It also feels more buttery which is my jam. This pastry is an easy 10/10 as it's thus far my favorite one! Also, it's easily accessible to enjoy most days of the week. After class we returned to our street to film then went to Musée d'Orsay to look and find a sketch for an assignment from Luckie-I'm super basic and chose Dega's The Little Dancer. I really enjoyed Musée D'Orsay as it was smaller and more manageable than the Louvre; the impressionist paintings are also more interesting and aesthetically pleasing to me. However, a group member suggested we leave at 12:45 to meet our class at the Eiffel Tower at 3:00...?! So we had to head out and we found a Boulangerie where I got the sandwich and beignet in the bag. It's funny, the girls were discussing missing home, and being sick of bread and cheese, and wanting American food (Subway in particular) having this sandwich that was more American in nature made me sure I disagree. I am not one to get homesick as I never have before. However, this sandwich had it's american edge with mayo, tomato, and lettuce. The tomato was delicious and an all around good tomato-unlike some questionable american-sandwich-tomatoes but I like the french version of a ham and cheese better. Putting butter in sandwiches is where it's at. I petition to make that a thing at home...everyone hates mayo, let's just replace it with butter! Also, I could never get sick of bread and cheese...that's not possible. Bread and cheese gives you endorphins and endorphins make you happy and happy people don't get sick of bread and cheese-they just don't! Anyways, this americanized french sandwich was a 5/10 for still being French in that the ingredients were perfect but execution was just too pedestrian for me ;) On to the beignet, this was honestly a mistake for me. Why would I buy the French version of a jelly doughnut when I don't like jelly doughnuts? Why am I like this? This had too much jelly and I just don't like jelly doughnuts! Silly me, silly girl, silly 3/10 doughnuts for excess jelly and I don't like this type of food. Afterwards we headed to class and then home to work on our new GPSA which was successfully uploaded. I got to FaceTime Austin for the first time since night one and we laughed with Tori and Caroline about the ridiculousness of this trip and how we are constantly left behind from the group. Good times :)

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