:'(

panic mode. cant even use pacs lock or anything. was having fun self-pitying myself but it stoppped now. have a paper to write in one day, not started writing, finish it an instead of celebrating have to write two more, and make an expose on the same week. so much panic i wanna cry. MOMMY! it's like when i finished my third final in 25 hours in UBC and did so bad in the last one cause i hadn't slept so i couldn't see the papaer i was writing my art history paper on. the i called my mom and cried, haha ok now its a little funny, but then i return to looking at myself in the library and its not funny, its pathetic. i have to go buy some red bull now or something, though i know its nowt gonna work due to my incredible abilities to fall asleep anytime, anywhere... like in class today, front row. yes. yesterday as well, its a little embarassing now im just talking to myself and avoiding going back to reading ciao.

its so obvious im craving for sympathy! yuck!!
peace out.
mile.

Weekend

This weekend has been so great. I haven't posted anything since that amazing night I saw a very partiular view of Paris for a couple of hours in the night, and etc., I've been wanting to write many things and haven't gotten around to it but now I just have this urge to share how this wekend has felts like chez moi, rue Saint Sabin.

Bridgette and Vanessa (visiting from Vancouver) went to Barcelona for the weekend (that's the kind of thing you do when you like in Paris, yeah!) and so I had the whole place for myself. I imagined since I would be alone here with no distractions, that I would get alll those piles of homework/assignments done, but oh, what happens first thing Saturday? Sam, Jessica and I decided to go for lunch at Chez Jeannette in my old neighborhood.

Chez Jeannette, day or night, never lets me down, love that place. I had a burger, hence meat, for the first time in quite a long time, and it was so meay I just couldn't do it in the end. I've kind of forgotten how to eat meat an though it was good, I can finally after a long time in limbo ('involuntaryly vegetarian though kind of voluntarily') see myself going fully vegetarian. Problem is, yeah it would be so easy to be a vegetarian here, but what happens when I go back to Costa Rica and all my favorite home dishes have chicken/fish! I haven't decided if I'll really commit to it.

Rue du Faubourg Saint Denis

Anyway, going back to my Saturday story. After the meal we took the metro to Chemin Vert, on our way to the Bibliotheque Historique, a library which has a great reading room overlooking a beautiful courtyard in the middle of Le Marais. It's a great place, Sam told me about it a few days ago and I'm so glad we went cause it's a beautiful room with great lighting and comfy chairs and kind of Harry Potterish.

Oh! On our way to this place we passed by an art gallery and realized that some of the pictures on the walls were by Malick Sidibe! He's a photographer from Mali.. I had run into his work randomly online, and he has a great picture Sam had put in his Tumblr called Nuit de Noel The picture was there, i was so excited to see it. I bought a little booklet of his latest work, a series on "vues de dos", back view portraits.

Nuit de Noel. Malick Sibide

We also got orange juice + cakes at the patio of the Institut Suedois. I think every single Parisian was outside of their houses yesterday, either in a terrace or a park enjoying the beautiful weather. Insitut Suedois, win, deifnitely coming back for more juice, soup, pastries and other great things they had in the cute little cafe.




Saturday night after our study session I decided to go thrift shopping for summer dresses (it was 24C yesterday!!!). had no luck, but did score a froen yogurt on the way back home, YES! Not so great as the Granville/Broadway little place I would go at least once a week (pain in my pocket cause its so expensive), but eating frozen yogurt under the sun, walking Le Marais... ah, amazing!

Came back home and then chatted for more than an hour with my brotehr cause yesterday his band was playing in the opening of the new CR National Stadium!! It was a huge deal, the biggest bands in CR plsaying and they won a concert to open the Rock section of the day of concerts. I really wished I could've seen them but from the reviews I've seen online and Facebook love I can see they rocked it :)

Now, Sunday afternoon, I'm just chilling with a cup of coffee after having a great meal and shower. Oh and it was raining just a bit ago, but in a very relaxing and beautiful way (as in makes-me-wanna-get-cozy-in-the-couch-and-put-a-movie-on way). Life is very good, can't complain!!

Souterrain

Yesterday night. One of those nights that makes me feel like I should be in Paris right now, and I am, and that's great. Started with a concert at La Fleche d'Or where La Femme and other bands were playing. There were 5 of us girls and really great group + wine dynamics going on. Afterwards, on our way to an afterparty in someone's apartment, a guy comes up to us and asks us if we're looking for the entrance to the 'party'. We found out in a bit that there was an underground party going on (literally), and that the entrance was not far from were we were. The guy and his group of friends offered to take us all and so we all, in groups of four, climbed down and walked through some tunnels until we could hear the music where the party was going on.

Amazing.

Jess' Place

Been hanging out with Jessica a lot, she's lovely. We have three classes together and get along great, so we decided to do a marathon paper writing session Thursday night to get one of our assignments out of the way. Lots of black tea and good music. Her place is so spacious and has great lighting, with beautiful windows to the street. I love what she's done to decorate it with pictures and some of her own artwork on the wall, so I took her camera and snapped a few shots.


'The Nostalgic Generation', said Jess. We discussed the reasons why our generation seemed to be so nostalgic about the past.


Working space



From Who Knows Where, to a Berlin Market, to a Parisian flat in Vavin.

Any Given Sunday

This was the last Sunday of my beautifully careless life. From this day on, I will be focusing on the 4 essays + 3 presentations that I will have to hand in during the last week of March and first two weeks of April.

But, I'll get it done, I'll "make it work" (in the words of Tim Gunn) so it's all good. Also, life is good despite the stress: I'm going to yoga and bike classes, I'm working on a great project about 'art contestataire' in my Mouvements Sociaux class, and I'm going to a concert on Friday (and yes, Primavera Sound in Barcelona in May!)

This is how my Sunday looked like, be jealous!



Breakfast: Fresh fruit and veggies from the market, and french toast.





Next step: Climbing up the roof and playing music.










Finally, we went to a little festival going on at La Bellevilloise where we checked out some local designer clothing, had a sandwich and beer and walked around Belleville.

So many good things for one day. Ciao.

Things To Do in Scandinavia Pt1

If you don't have time to go into Christiania (like me, unfortunately) get a pair of Stoner Glasses in the closest second-hand store and enjoy the riiiiiiide.

Stoner glasses: ~10 Swedish krona (1.1 euros)

WIN.










Stay in a friend's place and do hygge things like dinner parties and hungover Sundays.










Use their amazingly clean, nice-smelling, on time, amateur artist/puker free transit and enjoy the views from Sweden to Denmark. Also laugh when you hear the lady saying the names of places.







Walk around the pretty cities (Note: MUST wear warm clothes!!!!!!!! Just saying)

Copenhagen



Lund





Indulge in the pleasures of fika afternoons and vintage shopping












Finally, pull a little "Milena" from time to time to have energy for the night.




'What to do in Copenhagen Pt2 will come soon when I steal some pictures from Bridge and Sam, and even more when I develop my two film rolls.

Stay tuned!


ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz.....