my life update.

hey everyone… i apologize to everyone that has been reading my blog lately because i’ve only been posting “youtube” videos and pictures on the blog and not really updating about my life here in paris.

so i think i’m going to use this post to give you guys a bit of an update about how my life here is!

sciences po has been a mess lately. EXPOSES, EXPOSES, EXPOSES! sciences po has been unsurprisingly (i heard rumors of the intensity before going) and surprisingly (rumors are indeed facts) busy. yes busy, not hard, but busy. instead of a real “uni” like in the states, sciences po assigns to their students exposes or 10-15 minute oral presentations and short paper assignments that means little to nothing to students that are pursuing a degree there. instead of having a midterm, a final, and a final paper in courses to check what students have learned, sciences po gives you busy work like in high school to keep those bratty bourgeois French kids in line. i forget where i’ve read this, perhaps someone’s blog here at sciences po, but sciences po is really like an office. a fashion office for “preppy-chic” French students. (coined by maria) Much like an office, we prepare powerpoints, we do presentations, we present commentaries to our peers, we also deal with our “bosses” up in the sciences po l’avenir and the inscription offices.

prime example of a sciences po student:

well, although it seems like im hating on sciences po a bit in this post, there are also things that I really like here. For example, the post-modern bibliotheque!

i call this piece: Form over Function:

When compared to Gelman Library:

on another note, my life here is pretty good. ihaven’t really been traveling around Europe yet (ouais, pas encore) since I have so much work from Sciences Po but instead, i’ve found a good round of “regular” places to go and a wonderful internship.

on weekends and now Sundays, we go to Pop In a lot by Bastille/Oberkampf because it’s an amazing bar with an awesome basement. It reminds me of the blackcat backstage and random bands play there often. On Sundays, Maria and I (NOT NATE) would go to open mic and watch random people sing.

Pop-In

BLACKCAT:

aside from going to bars, i’ve also been on a quest to find a coffee place. To my surprise, Paris actually sucks at the whole coffee business. Big Bear, Murky, 9^th Street, Baked and Wired-esque cafes? Non-existent in Paris.

instead Nathan and I found a Chinese tea place by Places des Vosges. Its run by a super cute old man wearing a scarf, artistic jeans, and a nice sweater. On “tea-time” Tuesdays, Nathan and I can be found sippin’ some sencha or oolong…haha no not really but you get the point.

other things in my life?? Well, yeah, I still “have” my internship with the fashion photographer and I’m getting ready for a new burberry cologne shoot with her! I’m so excited. I’ll be going to a warehouse next Wednesday near “la haine” or the “banlieue” to assist in the shoot. Can’t wait…..

well, here you go guys, I hope this post was less “boring” than the other posts…