Musings of a French student through the years

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Paris and Money

Yesterday I made a list of places to go while in Paris (because it's important) listed under the pictures are some of the reasons I want to go there (and I realize that there is great history to each of these places....but I'm 19 and have limited interests when it comes to history):

Notre Dame-home of the hunchback of Notre Dame!

Champs-Elysees (including L'Arc de Triomphe) and right next to it is a restaurant:

Man Ray is owned by Johnny Depp, Sean Penn and John Malkovich. And I know Johnny Depp used to go to the bar he owned in LA (The Viper) when he lived in the states, so maybe that will be my opportunity to kidnap him and bring him home to AJ.


Pantheon has a bunch of cool people buried in it (Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Dumas, etc.) I'm uber scared of cemeteries, but I think it'll be cool!



Montmartre because that's where the entire video Moulin Rouge took place! woot! And at the peak of Montmartre is a church:

Sacre-Coeur is uber famous....and Savage Garden shot the video "Truly Madly Deeply" here....mwhahahahaha

The Louvre is a museum and, well if you don't know what the Louvre is go google it. The one painting I HAVE to see is the Mona Lisa.....because I hear it's ridiculously small.

Eiffel Tower.........obvi.


Père Lachaise Cemetery because a TON of cool people are buried there (Balzac, Sarah Bernhardt, Chopin, Jean Moulin, Édith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, and the infamous grave of Jim Morrison!) P.S. If you don't know who these people are....go google it.

Versailles...which is right outside of Paris!

If I forgot something....let me know! ;)

Today I went to financial aid and got a loan increased so I can buy my plane ticket. It should hit my bank account in a few days....so I should be able to buy the ticket soon! Hooray!

Always,
Amanda

2 comments:

AJ said...

ooooooh! johnny depp!!! I will send you money for an extra suitcase if you bring him home in it :0)

MesYeuxPensifs said...

Hey. Grace here. I think I tried to comment before, and my computer blew up. Almost literally...

Uhh, but I forget what I was gonna say. I think it was to make sure that you check out studentuniverse for your ticket because I too am financially-challenged, and studentuniverse was uber-cheap.

*shrug* Guess that's it...