Le Marais Days

Today I woke up with "so many people try so hard to be different, but you try so hard to hide the fact that you are" in my head. someone once said that to me, and i didn't remember it until now.

i went to school and didn't wanna go to the bakery to get a sandwich and wanted just some vegetables but school was starting and i didn't have time. then jeff ran into me on the way into the school and he bought extra food (tomatoes and red peppers) and he offered them to me. then i remembered that when i moved here i wanted a hair dryer and i couldn't find one and randomly i ran into the landlord and she said there was a hair dryer that one of the girls from a previous year left at the apartment and that i could have it. love when that happens. seems to happen often to me.

Had my atelier today for advanced spoken. In that class we will meet with french university students and spend 1 hour speaking only in french and the other hour speaking only in english. Our project for the semester is to write a french script and make a movie. We watched some movies from past semesters- it looks like fun, i'm excited.

then i priya and carla and i went to the marais to go shopping after we stopped at a consignment store in passy. katie came and met us. we got coffee after a few vintage stores.

i got pistachio ice cream
Priya and I went to get falafel. The server was in love with Priya because he was also Indian and gave her a free coke. Priya spotted Will heading into the vintage store behind us, and turns out he and Carson were there and got falafel too to eat at the park around the corner. Priya and I grabbed our pastries we got from Chez Marianne and went to meet them at the park. Then we took the train back.

Clothes i bought:

a chocolate brown fur coat

a capelet

the guy let me pick out a free belt. i picked this one

i found this sweater that i thought was kind of ugly but i liked it. then priya put it into words for me : "it has potential to be cute."
hmm... maybe worn with belt?
shoes

priya and i had an interesting conversation again at the falafel place. it got to the point during which it was so extraordinary that i looked at her and said that i had always wondered what it would be like to meet myself, and i felt that i was meeting myself. priya asked me if i thought other people had the same thoughts we did. i said no. definitely not. but what matters is even if they don't have the capacity to comprehend my thoughts, that they try. that makes all the difference in the world to me.