... Because I'm Still In Love With You ...

You've heard that Neil Young song, he goes on and on about still being in love with his girl. If any song could some up my feelings today, this song would be it.

The last couple of weeks have been in short amazing. I feel like a real Parisian lately, taking in the sites not like a tourist, but like any other student/ foreigner/ ex-pat living in Paris. There is so much to see and do, your days and nights become packed in by taking in the city on the isle St. Louis, walking around the BHV, or simply sitting in the Jardin de Luxembourg knitting with two of your newest girl friends. There is nothng that you can't do here that doesn't feel amazing, and while I have started to settle into a routine; I am still in love with Paris.

A few days ago, I went to La Defense, Hemmingway noted in his book A Moveable Feast that Gertude Stein said that in Paris, " You can live very well in Paris, even if you're poor, as long as you spent your money on art, and not on clothes". I remember that while I was walking through Paris's best but only mall. I also thought about it when Sarah, Helen and I passed Gertude Stiens old apartment the next day on our walk to the park.

Thats Paris. A Hemmingway book - filled with places, and people who have been here and lived. In the past, I wondered if I was really living, and not just existing. Now, there is absolutely no question.