Portraits and Canadians, July 20th

I wish Thursday was the last day of French class each week but unfortunately it's not, but I keep feeling like it is inside my head-this makes things hard. So today class was relatively uneventful with the exception of spending an hour or so in normal class discussing with everyone what their favorite foods for their home countries were. This was fun! We then had to head directly to Montmartre to meet with Amanda because we opted to move class time up. So we picked up sandwiches at the boulangerie and hopped on the train. We actually climbed way less stairs this time than last on our way which was really nice, because last time was pretty crazy. We met Amanda in a park with a small amphitheater like set up in which we sat on for our debate which was fun! We debated sexism in the case of Franklin when it came to the discovery of DNA's double helix structure. Unfortunately, I was assigned the anti sexism side which made prepping hard as I obviously don't believe that (no one did). However, I was really proud of my ability to debate it especially when Tori made a great point about the nickname "Rosy" they used behind her back to belittle her. I was able to come back and discuss the way the mocked Watson and Crick as well and even Amanda commended me on my ability to pull out of that one. Side note: many people on this trip have thought either me, or as of late my family are republicans. This is quite funny as they're so the opposite...I guess I give off some conservative vibez. After class we went to the art market up at Montmartre where I decided to get a portrait done...everyone was hounding me to let them draw me which was funny, a cameo guy was hounding me quite aggressively. I found a guy to do the portrait though and he was really nice and turned out to be from Iraq which we chatted about, he was quite nice and gave me a good deal. I think it will be a fun memory to have, and a cool momento to keep around for when I'm old. After that we headed back towards home as it was getting a bit later and we needed to do more work on our projects (a common theme of this week and probably next). But with that it was thankfully our last day of Amanda class before the weekend! WE stopped by crepe man for dinner, and I got the chicken and cheese with onions and spicy sauce which really takes the whole thing up a notch let me tell you-really brings it to 10/10 territory. But what today made crepe man so memorable was the gaggle of Canadian high schoolers loitering around the stand. They're all probably around 16 or so and were in their instagram/tumblr finery which was just quite hilarious seemingly all about to go out on the town and drinking for likely the first time in their lives so seeing kids n this state would be funny enough but on top of that they had the thickest canadian accents known to mankind.
Anywyas, we meant to go out tonight but editing work took longer and Caroline and I fell asleep before midnight which honestly, I think could have been even better?

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