I spend most of the day doing homework. I have a lot of 20 short essays to write on the art pieces we say last week.
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Today we visited the Le Procope and Sacre Coeur. It is the oldest restaurants in Paris and people like Rousseau and Voltaire who apperantly drank 40 cups of coffee a day at the place. Right next was this restraurant that had this awesome motto. These are my type of people. This is Sacre Coeur, it is up on a hill in Paris and has a great view of the city. It is still used as a church. We rode a carsoule but it was kinda lame so not really worth it. They have a lift to the top that cost money but since we have our metro passes so it was free!! Jessica and I didn't want to take the stairs since there was a lot of pick pocketers on the stairs. Then we went to get crepes and saw this cat on the way. I honestly thought this cat could kill someone. Then we went to FHE with the local singles ward.
Today we just went to church. There was a translator in every hour so we always knew a rough idea of what was going on. We were pretty tired from all the walking that we just chilled for the rest of the day. We did some family history which is how we found that we were related.
Today we went to the Arche De Triophme. It was so cold and windy. It was almost 300 steps to the top which was 100 less than the notre dame but we did 14 miles yesterday at Versailles so we are pretty tired. It was so windy!!!! Here we were are at the top. Jessica (Green Jacket) and I found out that we are actually 10th cousins once removed!!!! So we are pretty excited. Anna and I also looked at our family history and found that we are 8th cousins!!! So cool! Most stations have these doors that keep people from falling or getting pushed onto the track. That is the only salad dressing I have seen at any stores! It is so small in real life. This photo makes it look kinda big but it really was so small. There are Americans that put that much on one salad. The stores don't sell any peanut butter but they sell it in their cookies??!! France Explain! (Cece will get that reference)
Today we went to Versailles to start with. We had to take a different train to get there since the flooded is starting to close some train lines. It still didn't take us more than 35 mins to get there. That thing is huge. It's in the middle of a town but in its day it was in the middle of nowhere. We learned in class that it was built by Louis XIII to keep the whole court under one roof so they couldn't scheme behind is back and try to overthrow him since he was pretty young when he came to power. He built is outside of Paris to keep them away from everyone and even built his bedroom in the very middle of the palace so he could know what was going on. Marie antoinette later lived here to. We also learned that she said "let them eat cake" because they were taxing bread so high that the people couldn't afford it so she was saying that you can't tax everything. If you are going to tax bread let them still have cake and other foods to eat. It once held 10,000 people counting all the servants and the courts family. You should look up photos of it because it is so large. Also they have a free audio tour if you ask which was really nice since all the other museums have audio tours that cost a lot of money. I felt like it was really a good idea to do the audio because Jessica and I got a lot more out of the trip than other group members who didn't know about the audio. I thought this crown molding craved out of stone was pretty amazing. I also loved the indented textured wall paper! I have never seen anything like that and think it would be so cool in a house. It had almost identical floors to the Louvre. My teacher said that he has never seen so few tourists there. I couldn't image it with more. There were times when it felt pretty crowded and it was hard to see the rooms. I never thought of using stones to create molding but its pretty cool and I can only image how hard that must have been. Here is a painting that was on the ceiling. This one on the wall was suppose to be done by some amazing painter at the time. I know some of the photos below look like they are the same ceiling but almost all are of different ceilings. Hall of MirrorsThis is the main reason we came to Versailles. Back in the day having a mirror meant you were wealthy so having like a whole hall meant you were like really wealthy. Personally it felt kinda cheesy but back then it was amazing. It was the most popular room in the palace so as you can see there was a lot of photo bombing going on. I didn't know that I wanted my napkins folded like water lilies but now I expect nothing less. (Jk but I do really like them) This is the back side of the palace with the gardens. It was just added on to by every king, it originally started as a smaller hunting palace. If you look up pictures of the gardens in the summer they look so amazing. I wish we would have seen it in the summer with all the fountians on. This is at Marie Antoinette estate that is on the grounds. It took us 30 mins to walk there from the main palace. Her estate really wasn't even close to the edge of the grounds!! This place is so large. This was on the walk to Hamlet Village. Marie antoinette wanted to see what it was like to be a commoner so she had part of the gardens dug up and replanted in english style and then had sheep brought in. She would dress up as a shepherd and pretend to herd sheep that had been washed and cleaned just for her to move around. She thought it was pretty fun to the a peasant. It took us over an 1 hour from the main place to get to Hamlet village. Then we walked to the Paris Temple. It was only 15 mins from one of the exits at the Versailles. Then as a group we all went to the opera. It was in the opera house that supposedly is what the phantom of the opera is based off of but I'm not 100% sure about that. It was an amazing building. The inside really wasn't that large on the inside seat wise. I was surprised that it didn't hold more people. It was a very nice opera but it was in french so I'm not really sure what was going on. The first photo is of Molly and I. We found out that we are 8th cousins with her sister Anna who isn't in this pictured. The next photo is of Julieann and me. She's super nice and is graduating this semester from IS so it’s been nice to hear all about the program that I would really like to do. The last photo is the ceiling of the opera house. It is really amazing. Today we went to the Picasso Musee, the Pompidou and Notre Dame. The two museums include more modern art like cubism and surrealism. We learned in class today that after World War I there was a shift away from styles like realistic art and rococo because people felt that these unrealistic upper class society caused the war. So the art world completely shifts towards more abstract arts by artists like Jackson Pollock, Picasso and Chagall. The first place we went was the Picasso Musee. It included almost 500 hundred paintings and drawings by Picasso. We learned about how Picasso wanted to show everything's not just have you assume that something is there. So that's why many of his faces has both eyes even though its head was turned sideways and all limbs were showing when they shouldn't have been. It was nice to understand Picasso more than before. Here's the Picasso Musee. The only painting that I really like was Girl Before A Mirror. Then we went to the Pompidou. It is very different on the outside, I honestly thought that it wasn't finished. We went for two different paintings but both weren't there anymore so we didn't stay long. We then climbed to the top of the Notre Dame since we didn't get to do that the other day that we were there. It's almost 400 steps to the top in a tiny spiral staircase. The view was really nice but everything is so beige with the river being flooded and all. The walkway gets really small in some places around corners. I'm not sure how some people are able to get around them.
1. Musee RodinI have to write a few paragraphs on the kiss which is the white statues and the writing who is wearing the coat and leaning back. The big one that looks like doors is called the Gates of Hell and I think that the 3 guys look like they are going the singles lady dance. 2. PantheonWe didn't go into the Pantheon because for our assignment we just had to see the outside and we wanted to see some of the other musuems before they closed today. 3. Saint ChapelleIt is so amazing in person. We learned that during two wars they took out all the glass and put it in storage. I'm not sure how they did that beause they are really in single long glass panels like little squares. 4. ConCiergerieThis is right next to Saint Chapelle so we stopped in for a few minutes. It used to be a prision that held Marie Antionette before she was excuted. It had amazing architecture on the inside. Then we stopped at a crepe place for lunch I just reaffirmed my belief that I don't like crepes. 5. LouvreWe had to go back to the Louvre because some of the rooms that had paintings in them the we needed to see to write a paper on was closed on Monday. Since I was there I went and got a better photo of me at the Mona Lisa. The first one on monday was really bad but this one still isn't great. I blame the light everyone looked a little weird under it. The other photos are of Venus and Nike. 6. Musee National De L'OrangerieI them had to book it over to the Musee National De L'Orangerie. It closed at 6 and we got there at 5:29 PM and they barely let us in. It is a small musuem that really only has a Monets - Water Lilies. They are huge! The fill every wall in extremely large rooms. I have a video but again it won't let me upload videos. They are curved and just cover the walls in a room that is probably 20 feet by 30 feet. We saw this on the way to the metro. It was pretty to see the sun set and the Eiffel Tower lighting up. A lot of french people were also stopping and taking pictures becuase it was so pretty. We then went home and had our frozen food that we got yesterday at the picard.
Today we went to the Musee d'Orsay. They had a lot of Vince Van Gogh. They are so much more amazing in real life. They are just vibrant and bright. I had to go and look at them several times because they were so interesting and amazing. Monet - The Water Lilies Pond It was my favorite painting that I saw in this musuem. It just looks so pretty in person. I'm a big fan of impression so I really like the pieces that this museum had compared to the Louvre. The louvre and Musee d'Orsay has a lot of Realism painting but I'm prefer landscapes to painting of people so I didn't take a lot of photos of the Realism paintings. This painting was so sad. The lamb just has such a sad expression. I think it was the most emotion of an animal in a painting that I have ever seen. We found this little cafe for lunch. The tortellini was extremely tasty but I'm pretty it wasn't filled with cheese. I survied. I turned in early because we have done so much walking the last couple days. Today we walked 10 miles and 20,000 steps.
One of the other girls and I had to go to the Metro station early to get a Metro pass before we had class. There is a bakery on the way to the Metro that we stopped to get some breakfast, I got a chocolate echair. We went straight to the Mona Lisa. The place is so big! You could spend so many hours in there and still not see all of the pieces. Look how big this painting is! I can't even imagine how many hours that took to complete. The level of detail was amazing. The entire palace is filled with art and even the basement. We got stuck in the Egyptian wing for almost an hour. You walk all the way done these halls that just keep going and going only to find that there is no exit and you have to turn around and go all the back to get out. If there was ever a fire I'm not sure how people would get out and they don't seem to have a sprinkler system because that would ruin the art. Look at the level of detail on the stone. We then walked to find the Norte Dame. The river is very flooded. You can't walk on the walk ways that are rightn next to the river. We were able to go inside. They were having evening mass. It was very interesting to watch. They had a lady with a beautiful voice singing some sort of song during different times in the mass. We need to go back and climb to the top. Then we just wandered around for a little while till we found a metro station to go back to the hotel.
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April 2018
Links to all the days 1/20 - Salt Lake City to Paris 1/21 - Eiffel Tower, Arche De Triomphe 1/22 - The Louvre, Notre Dame 1/23 - Musee d'Orsay 1/24 - Musee Rodin, Pantheon, Saint Chapelle, Conciergerie, Louvre, and Musee National De L'Orangerie 1/25 - Picasso Musee, the Pompidou, and Notre Dame 1/26 - Versailles, Paris Temple, and the Opera 1/27 - Top of the Arche De Triomphe 1/28 - Church 1/29 - Le Procope and Sacre Coeur 1/30 - Pere Lachaise Cemetery 1/31 - Homework Day 2/1 - The Catacombs, Shakespeare and Co. and Street Artists 2/2 - Natural History Museum 2/3 - Homework and Organ Recital 2/4 - Church 2/5 - Rouen Cathedral/Museum and Bayeux Tapestry 2/6 - D-Day sites (Normandy) and Mont Saint Michel 2/7 - Chartres Cathedral 2/8 - Disneyland Paris 2/9 - Petit Palace and Ballet 2/10 - Flight to Rome 2/11 - Church, Walk, And Saint Peter's Basilica 2/12 - Capitoline Museum, Ponte Saint Angelo, and Panteon 2/13 - San Pietro in Vincoli, Forum, Palatine & Coliseum and Imperial Fori 2/14 - Priscilla Catacombs, Piazza del Popolo, Masoleum of Augustus & Ara Pacis 2/15 - Santa Pudenziana, St. Maria Maggoire, Santa Prassede, S. Martino ai Monti, Baths of Trajan and Domus Aurea 2/16 - Free day to Tivoli : Villa d'Este 2/17 - Homework, Homework, Homework and Gelato! 2/18 - Church, more Gelato and Pizza! 2/19 - Santa Maria in Trastevere, San Frencesco a Ripa, Aventine Hill, Santa Sabina, Santa Maria in Cosmed, Temples of Hercules & Portunus 2/20 - Vatican Museum and St. Peter’s Basilicia 2/21 - Free Day 2/22 - Florence Trip: Orvieto, Duomo, San Brizio Chapel, San Lorenzo, Baptistry, San Lorenzo, Medici Chapel 2/23 - Santa Trinita, San Marco, Uffizi Museum, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo 2/24 - Back to St. Johns, Palazzo Ruccellai, Orsanmichelle, Bargello Museum, Brancacci Chapel 2/25 - Church 2/26 - Baroque Rome Bernini and Borromini Churches: Santa Maria Degli Angeli, Santa Maria Degil Vittoria, Santa Susanna, San Carlino, Sant' Andrea al Quirinale, Trevi Fountain 2/27 - San Giovanni Dei Fiorentini, Palazzo Farnese, Palazzo Spada, Farnesina, Tiempietto 2/28 - Villa Borghese and Review Session 3/1 - Sant’Agostino San Luigi dei Francesi, St. Mary & the Martyrs, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Sant’Ignazio, Il’Gesu, Sant’ Andrea d. Valle, La Sapienza, Chiesa Nouvo, Santa Agnes in Agone Foutain of Four Rivers, St. Maria della Pace, and St. Peter’s Basilicia 3/2 - Group Dinner (Finals and packing) 3/3 - Flight to London, Unpacking, and First London Walk 3/4 - Church and Homework 3/5 - First day of class, London Walk 3/6 - St. Pauls and Guildhall 3/7 - Tower of London, Primark (aka Heaven) 3/8 - Southwark Cathedral, Borough Market, South of Thymes walk 3/9 - Do Your Own Thing, HAHAHAHAH JK. Homework :-() 3/10 - Canterbury Cathedral, Dover Castles and War Tunnels 3/11 - Church 3/12 - Sick 3/13 - British Library, British Museum, and The Magna Carta 3/14 - Winsdor Castle and Mcdonalds 3/15 - Hampton Court and Ben's Cookies 3/16 - Jane Austen House, Bath, Roman Baths, Stonehenge 3/17 - Do Your Own Thing , but like not really because you have so much homework 3/18 - Church Categories |