Tuesday, January 18, 2011

School Assignment: Pere Lachaise Cemetery

For one of our classes, a class about French architecture and focusing on the house, one of our visits was to Pere Lachaise Cemetery. It is one of the biggest cemeteries in Paris, and many famous people are buried here, such as Jim Morrison (NOT Van Morrison, which I kept saying for days.. whoops).

This was part of our class because the tomb is considered the "forever home" of people. Pere Lachaise was really interesting. The tombs are practically stacked on top of each other and there are multiple people in some of them. One of the was opened and we looked down (creepy, I know) but it went down REALLY far. There are also a great variety of tombs, from huge chapel looking structures to concrete slabs.


graveyard


prettyy


I really like this picture!


sooo big. 
I think you can click to enlarge the picture?


So besides that.. not much else has really been going on. School started back up .. blah. Today we went shopping.. all the sales are happening now but I still think everything here is crazy expensive. Like 40 euros for a t shirt expensive. (and that's after 50% off!!) So I just bought some make up that is illegal in the US. Well, I don't know if its illegal but they just aren't allowed to sell it there. (Lancome Ombre Absolue Eyeshadows if you must know! Love them.)

We also got MACAROONS for the first time. I have NO idea why I have never tried these little delights. SO good. Also really pretty. 


Exhibit A:


Exhibit B:
yes, yes I did take multiple pictures of my macaroons.


I got Pistachio, Chocolate, Raspberry, Salted Caramel, Red Fruits and Lemon. They were alllll delicious but my favorite was def. the pistachio. Lemon was a close second. Christy got some other flavors which were also good, except the rose one. Oh well. Live and learn I guess!

I also booked tickets to Barcelona for when the best bf ever comes to Paris to visit me! I'm really excited about that and about all the other travel plans we have for this semester (hopefully Nice, France this weekend!!)

xoxo,
-A

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