Class and Paris video

Remember when I told you I'd start posting again tonight?  Well, life got in the way.  I've been going to the gym every day which means, in sum, being gone from 8:30am to 8pm, then making dinner, homework, etc., so the week has been a little crazy.

So for now I will just tell you about class today, which was... something.
My afternoon class is called "Sex, Drugs & Rock and Roll", which is about pop culture over the course of 20th century history in the two Germanys, France, and in the USSR.
On a typical day, this class makes me very uncomfortable.  But today, we had a rap workshop. We had to go around the room and make rhyming lines, and then work on "battle raps" which are based off of "insults, aggression, and intensity" and included a lot of swearing.  This was not only uncomfortable because of the content, but because we had to go around the room and share them as class went on!

Long story short, I wrote mine about the UBahn instead of another person in the class because I don't think it's very funny to insult people, even if for play, and... I find it incredibly distasteful to swear in class (clearly I'm not a european).  Plus I gave it up for lent :). But  I'm glad that class is over! Now we can move on to learning about.... more uncomfortable topics.

Also, since I still haven't even looked through my Paris photos, here is a video I took of the Eiffel Tower sparkling at night!  (It does so for 5 minutes at the top of every hour between 8pm-11pm.  At 1pm the lights are shut off completely and the tower is dark, which I find quite interesting).