My cranky adventure
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
In Paris
Finally in the morning at 7am, we reached Paris!! What a wonder!! Haha...sometimes we can't believe that how things have gone on so smoothly. Later on, we went to our hotel first. We stopped at St Lazare to change train to our hotel in Marc Dormoy! When we reached our hotel,"Stadium Hotel", we were a little shocked at the standard of the hotel. It didn't looked that great for the price that we pay!! USD29 per night!! But it was still a fine place to stay in.
Kang finally called me, he had reached Paris in the morning too. So he was going to meet us at 3pm later, he changed to 4 pm!! It was really exciting for me as I have not seen him for such a long time.
We took the train to a popular street where almost all the perfumes were there. Ying and I bought JACKETS from United Colours Of Benetton. If u notice, after today, you will see that we will be wearing Pink and blue jackets. It cost us 50 Euros each! So expensive but I was really freezing. So I really needed it.
After lunch, we walked and walked and finally we reached another place... i was thinking why is this place filled with people and the building was so nice!!! We walked out of the old buildings and saw a clear glass pyramid!!! It was MUSEE DU LOUVRE. It was the famous museum which housed many of the famous sculptures and paintings around the world. It was also a place that was mentioned in my French Textbook!! Heeeheee.... We took many pictures and also the L'arc de triumph near the museum. We decided to go in! I was really amazed to see all the beautiful paintings and lovely sculptures inside. The most fascinating part was that I saw MONA LISA SMILE painting. Everyone was crowding around that particular painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.
It was time to go as we were going to meet Kang and his french friends! My heart was a little nervous as I had not seen my old friend from Korea for a long time!! We were going to meet at Chatelet. As we made our way up the fountain, we saw my friends!! Yippie there they were!!! Kang gave me and Ying a hug!! I was delighted to meet my old friend. His french friend David gave us each a kiss on the cheek. We gave them gifts from Singapore. We went to Centres Geoges Pompidou. It was a famous place but it's a unique library. It was big but we had to queue up to go in. Because they only allow a certain number of people to go in at one time.
After visitng the Pompidou, we went to see ALEX, another french friend of Kang's. I thought he was pretty funny. Hahaa. David treated us to waffle and then we went to see their number one university in Paris. It was a very old structure but they did not allow tourists to go in. We managed to go in because ALEX talked to them and we could go in and take a look.
David and Alex left later while Kang followed us around. We went to Notre Dome. It was a pity we can't go in because I remembered from past memory that the stained glass inside the church was beautiful. After that, we went for coffee and I told Kang a lot of my stories.....David called at 9 pm so we had to go....we decided to meet tomorrow at 11am....to go Eiffel tower! Yippie!!
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Kang finally called me, he had reached Paris in the morning too. So he was going to meet us at 3pm later, he changed to 4 pm!! It was really exciting for me as I have not seen him for such a long time.
We took the train to a popular street where almost all the perfumes were there. Ying and I bought JACKETS from United Colours Of Benetton. If u notice, after today, you will see that we will be wearing Pink and blue jackets. It cost us 50 Euros each! So expensive but I was really freezing. So I really needed it.
After lunch, we walked and walked and finally we reached another place... i was thinking why is this place filled with people and the building was so nice!!! We walked out of the old buildings and saw a clear glass pyramid!!! It was MUSEE DU LOUVRE. It was the famous museum which housed many of the famous sculptures and paintings around the world. It was also a place that was mentioned in my French Textbook!! Heeeheee.... We took many pictures and also the L'arc de triumph near the museum. We decided to go in! I was really amazed to see all the beautiful paintings and lovely sculptures inside. The most fascinating part was that I saw MONA LISA SMILE painting. Everyone was crowding around that particular painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.
It was time to go as we were going to meet Kang and his french friends! My heart was a little nervous as I had not seen my old friend from Korea for a long time!! We were going to meet at Chatelet. As we made our way up the fountain, we saw my friends!! Yippie there they were!!! Kang gave me and Ying a hug!! I was delighted to meet my old friend. His french friend David gave us each a kiss on the cheek. We gave them gifts from Singapore. We went to Centres Geoges Pompidou. It was a famous place but it's a unique library. It was big but we had to queue up to go in. Because they only allow a certain number of people to go in at one time.
After visitng the Pompidou, we went to see ALEX, another french friend of Kang's. I thought he was pretty funny. Hahaa. David treated us to waffle and then we went to see their number one university in Paris. It was a very old structure but they did not allow tourists to go in. We managed to go in because ALEX talked to them and we could go in and take a look.
David and Alex left later while Kang followed us around. We went to Notre Dome. It was a pity we can't go in because I remembered from past memory that the stained glass inside the church was beautiful. After that, we went for coffee and I told Kang a lot of my stories.....David called at 9 pm so we had to go....we decided to meet tomorrow at 11am....to go Eiffel tower! Yippie!!
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