Our List of Things to do in Paris (subject to change)

• get drunk on the bridge, Pont des Arcs
• party in the bottom of a boat
• go to French movies
• Falafel restaurants in the Marais
• Isle des impressionnistes
• La Palette
• gay club
• l'entrecote place
• (warm weather) gelato place
• picinic all the time
• Palais de Tokyo- eat noodle bowl but don't cut the noodles because it is bad luck
• Clothes museum
• Party all night- breakfast after
• Jazz club
• Angelina- chocolat chaud
• watch the superbowl at an American bar
• make French friends- go to their vineyards
• make Aristocratic friends- go to their mansions...just kidding...kinda
• crash Fashion week parties
• go to Champagne country
• Pompidou
• Friday night at the Louvre
• Chinatown-eat noodles
• watch Sabrina, moulin rouge, the princess and the frog, and zoolander (because Gulfem hasn't seen it)

Today we went to Chinatown on a tour. We walked for hours, and all I remember is the buddhist temple in a parking garage. Kind of a let down, but we're hoping to go back and eat noodles one day- see above list. Tomorrow we're waking up early (early means before 11), and finding the discount shopping in Paris. Tomorrow night we begin our list of things to do with the gay bar. Apparently Monday is ladies night! We're also starting to plan where we want to go next week in France before classes start. Right now we're looking at Champagne country, and hopefully we'll think of more.

On another note, I was a crepes stand yesterday getting a crepe with nutella and bananas and I overheard these American girls talking about how they had to go back to the crepes place on the downtown mall when they went back to Charlottesville. I wanted to say something, but they ran away before I could. I then felt very cool for ordering in French after they talked entirely in English. This also boosted my ego after I accidentally told a woman "Happy New Year" while leaving a store instead of saying "Have a good day".

McDonalds is not only popular in the French parts of Paris, but it has now spread to the Chinatown area as well.

Basically the most asian looking thing in Chinatown. To be honest, the neighborhoods don't look that much different from the rest of Paris with the exception of the cooked ducks in the window.