Provins is this small medieval town, looked exactly like the town Belle is from in Beauty and the Beast. We got up at 7 in the morning to make it to the Nation train station by 8am, got on the big coach buses. Nassim sat next to me and we talked the whole way (2hrs) about our mutual friends, our lives, what we're looking for in Paris and in life.
It was SO COLD when we got there. Freezing. I let will try on my cape, he looked like a leprecaun. We then divided up into groups and went on a 2 hour tour of the town. First we saw the castle, then we walked through it into the town (which is obsessed with roses, everything is rose flavored, rose wine, rose macaroons, rose ice cream, rose nougat, rose sugar- yet another clue that Belle did live here) then we walked inside the castle and climbed up to the prisons, and then to the bell tower which gave us a panoramic view of the entire town.
Then we went inside one of the churches that was not open to the public. Inside, it was set up like an elaborate restaurant. Tables everywhere, bottles of wine, servers. We were served with an aperatif of cassis and white wine, made our toasts, then were served an appetizer of salad, some sort of baked flakey crusted pork (veggies like myself got a flakey crust topped with cheese and baked tomatoes). Then we had our mains, which were quiches and duck (Veggies got a big plate of delicious steamed veggies) then we had cheese plates of camembert, then we each got a plate of mini muffins and meringues, then desert which was a chocolate cake pyramid in custard with slices of fruit. NYU got all of us drunk, including the freshman. We were in love with our waiter who Will claimed was 16 yrs old but he liked us too and gave us another bottle of wine after we finished our two bottles even though it wasn't allowed.
We walked over to a medieval amphitheater to watch the falcon show, which involved women on horses, and men with gigantic birds that flew away then boomeranged back to them. Owls, falcons, vultures, bald eagles, giant turkey like birds flew over our heads. One of them actually hit Iris on the head when it flew by. We were all drunk during this.
Then we had some free time. I got a rose macaroon for 1.80 euro when in the city, they are 6 euros, and I got some nougat which tasted like perfumed sugar. Not yummy. Then we took the bus back. Nassim and I slept the whole way.
On the way back home, Aurelle and I got a little cake for Liz's bday. We gave it to her at home before her friends came over for her party. I got showered and dressed and met Carla at Concorde to transfer to the 1 to go to the Marais to meet up with Jeff, Nassim, Julia, Camille, and Will. We went to La Perle which was fun, good vibes, but mostly everyone was English. Will and Jeff started talking to some guys who turned out to be designers for Sonia Rykell, Givenchy, Giorgio Armani. They invited us to go to some bar. The Sonia Rykell designer was named Tony, so gay, and wore a polo with little dogs on it. We talked for a while he was very sweet but he didn't take to some of my friends I was with. One of the other ones was like "who are these people you invited? they need to be approved by me first" and I said hi i'm maria and he said oh baby you're approved because i like your voice.
we went to a gay bar and this guy came up to me and said that I was beautiful and said he was a designer and then this other guy came up to me and said I was beautiful and said he worked for Giorgio Armani in the Bon Marche. His name was Rahib and he asked me to please come see him at Giorgio Armani on Friday at 8 and he would do my make up for free because asian eyes are hard to do and he would do a smokey look for me. He was going to the south of france this friday so he told me to go next next friday. He kept kissing my hand and saying that I wouldn't remember his name but he would remember mine, and surprisingly before I left he said bye Maria you better come see me. some guy actually walked up to Julia and tried to make out with her. At a gay bar? Haha only Julia.
It started raining. Will said he was going to leave, so I left, and so did Carla. Apparently it was a good decision because Nassim Julia Jeff and Camille didn't have a good night out afterwards. All of the taxis were taken, the trains were closed, we called for a cab 10 times at least but they were all taken even on the phone. We found a taxi stand, and waited for an hour at least. Will decided to walk, Carla and I waited it out next to a fat woman with her prepubescent and actually very cute boyfriend who were all over each other. Finally we got a cab and I went home.
I finally slept a full 9 hours after the past 2 days of sleeping 4 hours. I gotta go to the bank to deposit my rent today. I got my tickets to florence, I'm going on the 8th of Oct until the 11th.
Will do an update with photos soon. It's too cold and I'm too lazy to upload right now.
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