Wednesday High and Low

Hey, so this is a new deal- but it will also keep me committed to a quick weekly post! And, to be honest, also a semi shout out to the student managers back at Bethel! Hello hello!

You see, back at home when I am at school, we have these weekly managers as student managers in my university's Dining Center (MONSON Dining Center - to be exact, ha we have to try to start calling it that!) :)

Anyways, each week at these meeting- ah, its so great- we go around the table and just do a quick catch up with everyone by sharing their highs and lows of the week. So, even though I am abroad I thought I would still pitch in, give my two cents (and if anyone there wants to share theirs, please do reply or you can email me- I still use my Bethel email!- because I would love to hear/ keep in the loop as well/ hear your stories!)

Alright, so..... here goes,

My LOW of the Week was definitely dealing with getting my metro pass to work. You see, in Paris you can ride the metro using these single use ticket stubs OR get a week long or month long pass. Well I waited till February and bought it, yes, the official Navigo card de le metro! I was so excited! It was definitely a little spendy but at least would last me the month, plus be cheaper than the stubs. And to be honest, I was so excited.... I started... singing... in France.... in public (!!!).

That's like a triple threat if you live here. (Exaggeration Alert!) But basically no one really does it! Ever. However (quasi- high), the Persians didn't mind it too much and actually one Frenchman even held up his hand to me as if to hold an invisible microphone for me to sing into! Ah, but in my excitement I took it as a pound and fisted his microphone before it hit me (ha) as to what he was actually doing. He laughed, I said merci, and then commented that I had a good voice- I just laughed again because that was the most fun I had had with a Parisian since I had been here.

BUT, back to the low... basically, my card did not end up working. I had paid for both a card and the month long service but they had by accident given me a card with a serial # different than the one I had paid for. I went back that night to a different person, who wrote me a note and directed me to another station to figure my problem out, here the next day I waited two hours in line only to find they could not help me, went to another info desk where the guy was suspicious that I might be scamming the system to put money on my card for the month on the metro, couldn't get back home, had to buy more passes, passes I had to buy the next day (the stubs) didn't work, called my program supervisor, sent me a email of how to explain myself, went back to where I had initially bought it, - they had it there (yes!- in a brown envelope) but questioned why I didn't just return right away... I did I explained. But afterward was so thankful and contemplated singing again. I didn't.

HIGH of the week, tonight.
In short, I took a walk.
- past St. Sulpice, through the Luxembourg Gardens, up to the Parthenon, to study in the elegant but simple Public library, only to return home with a view of the Eiffel Tower light show.
Ah.... :)