We meet with our class for a few minutes to talk about our plans for the week. This week is museum week so we will be visiting as many musueems as possible because we have a 6 day pass that gets us into almost all the musueems in paris for free. The class then split into several small groups and we each did our own thing. 7 of us went to the Eiffel Tower. We took the metro to the tower and got to see more of the city on the way there. Everything is really dirty. I'm very really been to a big city so I don't know how it compares but one of the first things I noticed when I came to Paris is how much graffiti there is everywhere and just how dirty it is. The second this is how much everything reeks of cigarette smoke yet I don't see people smoking. Like I will walk out of a metro station and it smells like someone is smoking right there yet there isn't every anyone. All over are people selling the same little trinkets. He is one of the many vendors I saw. It was raining and cloudy but we were able to find the Eiffel tower! Its so pretty in person! It was too cloudy to go up to the top so we will have to go back another day. Every hour the for 5 minutes the tower lights up and sparkles. I had a little video of it sparkling but it won't let me upload videos on this web format. Then we walked around Paris for 1 and half looking at all the different fancy building that are close to the Tower. Then we found our way to Arche De Triomphe. We took a passage under the road to get to the centre since it has 5 lanes of traffic going around it. But we just ended up on the other side so we are going to try another day and find a way to the middle. Our pass lets us go to the top for free as long as we do it by Saturday.
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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 |