We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. ~Pablo Picasso Today was my last Thursday in paris, and my last day of field trips. I am now entirely done with my classes (except for those pesky finals on monday). This last field trip was one I had been looking forward to a lot! We went to ...

"What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place." So today was the last day of classes. We just have one field trip tomorrow, and then Finals on Monday before the trip is over!! I'm so excited because despite my original ...

Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ~Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand? Today was a field trip day, which is nice because it means free museum passes! We went to the Rodin Museum first, which I have already visited, but that I enjoyed seeing a secon...

The internet was out last night so I couldn't update which really made me sad since I haven't missed a day yet… but I wasn't about to go out with my laptop into Paris to search for an internet café at night. Not that Paris is unsafe, but I'd rather stay close to the Cite at night. So I wrote this in word last night, just to keep up the habit of writing something every night! Today is the beginning of my last full week in Paris! It's hard to believe that I'l...

For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. ~Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist So today I went to see the end of the Tour de France in person. It was really just an incredible feeling knowing that I was about to see one of the greatest international events live, and in person, standing only a few feet from the cyclists. We headed out ea...