tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13595226168203074902024-03-13T09:58:43.389-04:00we [met in] the parkPhotography, writing, design, reflections on life, and food. And some other little things in between.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359522616820307490.post-5786295338537629172017-02-08T18:54:00.000-05:002017-02-08T20:06:14.665-05:00VeniceI've been MIA on here for <strike>over a year</strike> a while, for a plethora of reasons. In any case, I finally got around to editing photos I took last spring and summer, so I'll slowly be putting them up on here.<br />
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First, I wanted to upload some photos from Venice last April. I had always dreamed of going to Venice, for the same reasons that anyone does (canals? little bridges? Italian food? yes please). I was also wary of going to Venice, for the same reasons that anyone is (expensive? tourist trap? expen$$$ive?). Luckily, the latter turned out not to be true, whether because of the time of year or perhaps because people were avoiding Venice for these exact reasons.<br />
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Anyway, I can safely say that Venice is one of the most magical places I have ever visited. To call it touristy is to underline an obvious conclusion for any place that is as beautiful, as photogenic, and as unique a place as a city built on water. I don't want to belabor the point, so I'll just dump my photos here now.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359522616820307490.post-56959785648268868562015-12-11T16:14:00.000-05:002015-12-11T16:16:17.543-05:00Prague(Quick life update to explain why I haven't posted in forever: I've just been super busy. I'm living in Paris now, working on getting my Masters degree. But I think I'll save all the Life Stuff for another entry, some time in the future. In the meantime, feel free to follow me on <a href="http://www.instagram.com/voldy92">Instagram</a>, which is probably what I use the most lately.)<br />
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Here are pictures I took when I was in Prague a little over a month ago. Truly one of the most charming, magical cities I've ever had the opportunity to visit.<br />
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Rest in peace to every single person who has fallen due to violence, brutality, and abuse at the hands of institutionalized, systemic, white-privileged, racist aggression.<br />
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Visiting the Eiffel Tower is usually #1 on any tourist bucket list, but while I was studying abroad, I didn't end up visiting the Eiffel Tower until 4 months into living in Paris. Exams were ending, classes were easing up, so with two weeks left to spare in the city, my friends and I took a stroll after school one day to the Tower, and decided to go to the top.</div>
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It's...weird, really, when you find yourself <i>right there</i>, in front of the Eiffel Tower, underneath the Eiffel Tower, inside the elevator of the Eiffel Tower. That huge, recognizable icon that is less a hunk of metal and more a symbol of...what? Of everything, for different people. The Eiffel Tower is a symbol of symbols, it is a representation of centuries of representation, it is an image of an image. It is an icon, and for that reason alone, it is unfathomable.</div>
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The peeling, exterior paint is kind of ugly, the wait is long, the lines are chaotic, the ticket price is unnecessarily steep, the grilled fence is annoying, the free Eiffel Tower WiFi is weird for existing in the first place, the windy air is really, <i>really</i> cold, and can you please stop using your iPad as a camera? It takes up like five feet when you're wielding that around, thanks.</div>
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But the point is, you love it anyway. This is the Eiffel Tower. <i>The </i>Eiffel Tower. It's cliché, but hey, six months later—I think I'm allowed to indulge in a little bit of touristiness with these photos. </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359522616820307490.post-84820171509424646042013-09-02T22:22:00.001-04:002013-09-03T15:40:29.374-04:00On Home and Belongingness—And Why I Miss Paris<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Okay, so it's been 92 days since I returned from my five-month stay in Paris. And I don't blame my friends who have repeatedly commented on the fact that I have often unconsciously vocalized differences between life in Paris and life here in the NJ/NYC area, or talked about how Paris simply does a lot of things better. I know hearing such remarks can be tiresome and annoying, and can make me sound arrogant and pretentious at worst. I'm sorry. But please, believe me when I say there is more to it than that. And if you don't believe me, well, then let me justify myself. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've had this post ready for a very long time now, but I wanted to give it some time before I delved into this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">...but bear with me, because this will take a while. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The concept of home—and more generally, of belongingness—has always fascinated me. My parents have owned the same house here in New Jersey since they emigrated from Macedonia to the United States a few years before I was born. We never moved houses (though we did put ours on the market for a short few years hoping to find something more spacious, but the search ended in vain). The most residential change we ever underwent was to relocate a few years ago to the slightly bigger and better-lit second floor of our two-family house. But that involved nothing more than moving furniture up a flight of stairs. Not an easy feat—it's a narrow staircase that spirals at the top slightly—but regardless, my point remains that I have always called this same, small, humble abode "home" for the entirety of my twenty years of life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Thus, my view on the meaning of home has always been slightly stagnant and more or less unexceptional. So when I moved into my dorm in New York City last year, everything felt...off. I had always loved New York City. I would come into the city all the time, and even spent my freshmen year of college commuting to school there. Yet when it came to actually <i>living</i> there, I felt as if I had left a heavy part of me behind in New Jersey. There was a strange internal imbalance that arose, something inexplicable that made me think, "This doesn't feel right."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course, as with most changes, the uncomfortable feeling faded soon enough. The four months that I spent living in New York City ended up being some of the best months of my life. I had transformed part of a school dorm room into a home for four months, and when the time came to strip it of my identity and lug my belongings back to New Jersey, I felt as if once again, a piece of me had been left behind. That strange sentiment arose again, the sense of something being off. However, I did not have enough time to explore the intricate workings of this feeling, for three weeks after I returned to my permanent home in New Jersey, I was off on a flight to Paris to spend my spring semester abroad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Paris came to be, undoubtedly, the biggest change, the biggest <i>chamboulement</i>,<i> </i>I would experience. I was over 3,000 miles away from home—<i>both</i> homes, that is, my permanent New Jersey residence and my newer, more youthful NYC home. Moreover, when I was living in New York City, I was still only a train ride away from my permanent home in Jersey. On the same day, I could have lunch on campus and dinner with my family in our kitchen. Not that this necessarily happened often, but nevertheless, the proximity masked my life-away-from-home with a kind of false separation. My parents still wanted me to come home on weekends as often as I could, and so the limits of my independence were always visible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I arrived in Paris on a snowy, slushy, gloomy day, and once again, I was met with that strange feeling that I could never describe or name, that feeling that was both familiar and foreign, that feeling of<i> things just not being right.</i> Once again, though, after a week or so, this malaise subsided into a growing sense of understanding of my surroundings and a strengthening appreciation for them. Slowly, I fell in love with Paris.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes, Paris was obviously different—not just because of the distance, but because I was living entirely on my own. For five months, I had only myself within my small, small, small <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambre_de_bonne">chambre de bonne</a> </i>(and I really mean <i>small</i>). This was not a problem in the fundamental sense of what living alone entails: I know how to cook, clean, maintain my financials, and generally take care of myself. It was not a challenge to support myself; if anything, it was a great liberation. Instead, the problem was found, once again, in what defined my sense of <i>home</i>. I quickly fell into the quotidian groove of <i>boulangeries</i> and I became a maître of the <i>métro</i>; picking up the morning paper became muscle memory, speaking and hearing French on the street, in cafés, and at the supermarket became not only second nature, but something I loved. Few things can enrich the mind so actively and so constantly as hearing and speaking a foreign language on a daily basis, and it truly changes the way you think about and perceive all that is around you. The French <i>esprit</i> is quite unlike the American counterpart, and so it was intriguing to blend the two together. (But that's another story.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I <a href="http://wemetinthepark.blogspot.com/2013/01/paris.html">mentioned several months ago</a> that Paris has an undeniable charm that is nearly impossible to channel into words, and once again I find myself needing to reiterate this fact—if not even more so, since this feeling only amplifies with time. When I say that I miss Paris, I don't mean to be annoying. I don't say it as a means of boasting that I spent part of my life there. Let me be immodest and say that I actually am very modest when it comes to talking about how hard I work in school and generally in life, so spare me this moment to shed this humility and say that I worked really damn hard for everything that has brought me to where I am right now in life. I worked really hard to get good grades, to receive financial aid, to receive <i>extra</i> financial aid, to save money by commuting to school every morning and night for my freshman year, to eventually move on-campus, and now, to work on campus as a Resident Assistant. I work hard to achieve what I want, and I worked really hard to make studying abroad in Paris a feasible goal, both financially and academically. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So when I say "I miss Paris," please don't roll your eyes and think, "Ugh, he's just some privileged rich kid who should shut up." Maybe I should shut up, but know that I am neither privileged nor rich. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The other day, my father randomly sighed and said, "Never in my dreams did I imagine I would be able to send one of my kids to Paris to study for a semester." I couldn't help but smile. My parents emigrated from the seventh poorest country in Europe in the hopes of raising a family under better conditions. It is one of the most flattering things to be viewed as a symbol of their success: my sister and I are essentially the incarnations of what the American dream has meant to my parents. It can be a burden to be viewed as such, but I will never stop working toward my dreams with every ounce I have, because I truly do believe in the value of hard work and earning what you want. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I apologize for that personal and dramatic digression, but m</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">y point is that I spent five months living in a place that was only ever a vague, distant dream for me. I couldn't help but grow appreciative of life in Paris and become so grateful for the experience—and nostalgic for it when it was over. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many of my friends in my school were dissatisfied with their experiences abroad, simply because they awaited the same kind of treatment and availabilities as back in the United States. So some restaurants close from 3-7; so we don't have cellular data, and have to rely on the occasional WiFi network found while roaming around; so bagels aren't really a "thing" in Paris (or in most of Europe, really). These are things I could and did deal perfectly well without, in part because I knew I would eventually be returning to a place that had such amenities, but more so because I knew there would be countless things to which I had grown accustomed in Paris that I would no longer have when I returned to the United States. Things that I had learned to love without even realizing it, simply because they were everyday items that of which many took advantage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So when I say that I miss Paris, I can't help it. Paris was my home for five months, and when I departed, I felt, once again, that I was leaving a piece of myself behind. Only this time, it was a very different piece, a piece assimilated into an entirely different culture, language, gastronomy, music and film scene—a different <i>everything</i>. A different city, a different country, a different continent, and a different and new layer to what I think about when I think about <i>home</i>. Of course, the culture shock I experienced when I landed in Paris was one to be expected: I had been plopped in a new place for first time and expected to figure life out there. That was a normal part of the challenge. However, it was strange to experience the same kind of culture shock when returning to the United States, my <i>home-home</i>. Things should not have felt foreign; yes, I spoke English immediately, I knew how to navigate JFK Airport, I hadn't forgotten how to drive a car, I hadn't forgotten the road home, I hadn't forgotten most things. But it still felt foreign, weird, different. In a way, I remembered America in a mechanical sense: I knew how to do things, where to go, etc. but mentally and emotionally, there was still a sense of foreignness, a detachment from a social fabric that had continued to grow for the five months that I had been gone. Yet I was no longer a part of France's fabric either, for I was thousands of miles away again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And so, I felt as if any trace of my grounded existence had been effaced. I was met with a curious feeling of limbo when I realized that I then had more than one kind of home. Yes, America will always be my more permanent home, but I do consider Paris as home now too. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Between these two realms, there is a feeling of nearly impossible reconciliation. I miss hearing French, but when I am in Paris, I sometimes miss the luxury of English fluency. I miss the Paris métro, but when in Paris, I miss not having 24-hour subway service. I miss the calming beauty of Parisian streets, but when walking to class in Paris, I hated the uncurbed dog <i>merde </i>that scatters the sidewalks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Then there are some people who feel slightly insulted when I say I miss Paris. They think that I would rather live there forever, alone, separated from everything and everyone who shaped the past 20 years of my life here in America. This is not what I mean when I say I miss Paris. Of course, coming back to America was a wonderful thing on many levels. Getting to see my family and friends again—that kind of joy is unparalleled. Not to mention, there is a feeling of connectedness that is resumed when I am here. I no longer feel the disconcerting effect of being 6 hours ahead, of going to sleep when my loved ones, thousands of miles away, are just beginning to enjoy each other's company at night. I missed all of this, for sure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But when I say I miss Paris, it is hard to explain unless you too have ever missed a place that you once called home, a place that is long gone now—at least, relative to you. I miss Paris, but that does not mean I could do without everything and everyone I have here in America. Missing a place is not the same as missing a person; it is much more complex than that. (Yet I would venture to say that Paris is, in its own way, a person, fully equipped with moods and feelings and personality and character.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I said earlier that when leaving Paris, it felt as if a part of me had been left behind on the French soil. I think that perhaps it is more so the reverse—that the place, in this case Paris, imparted to me a piece of itself when I left. To say that we shed a piece of ourselves behind when we leave a place is to be somewhat egocentric, for this idea suggests that a piece of us will have some kind of effect on the soil from which it was left. Not that it couldn't; I just mean that for many of us, it isn't the case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I know, I know—what the hell am I actually talking about here? Well, I am talking about the simple, somewhat depressing fact that we try to ignore sometimes: you can miss a place all you want, but that place won't necessarily miss you. In fact, it doesn't even know of your existence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That sounds dramatic, but let me explain. After a year of constantly shifting my idea of <i>home</i>, I have come to understand that feeling that kept coming back when I moved from one place to another, that feeling of things not being right, that feeling I experienced when I moved to NYC and when I moved to Paris and even when I moved back to NYC two weeks ago. It is an inherent discomfort with the feeling of not being connected to our personal sense of "home"—more specifically, the intricate network of thoughts and memories and people that constitute that concept. That's how I felt when I left for Paris, and that's how I felt when I came back from Paris. Disconnection. Things will continue in Paris without me, just as things in America continued without me being here. Things will continue without me, because technically, they don't need me to function. They don't even know who I am. By "they", I refer to some kind of personified embodiment of all the inner and outer workings, the cogs and gears, that fuel Paris every day. I am not even a ripple in the ocean, and it is <i>that</i> feeling that hurts the most, no matter where you go. <i>That</i> is the feeling I felt when I moved to NYC, when I moved to Paris, and now most recently when I left Paris to move back to America. That is the feeling I kept experiencing each time my concept of "home" was threatened once more, and yet I could never understand it or put a name to it—the feeling of disconnection, of having severed my belongingness. Why do we feel anxious when our phone dies while we are out? Why do we consider things like an Internet connection a right more so than a privilege? Why do we sometimes leave TVs on in the background? It is because of a fear of being disconnected from—from what? Friends? Family? The world? All of it, really. We like to be a part of something larger, and the lack of such a connection ultimately boils down to the disconcerting, uncomfortable, and frightening feeling of not belonging. You feel lost and lonely and when this concern is vocalized, you are reassured by your surrounding friends with the "you are not alone, you have us" mantra. But being alone is not synonymous with being lonely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So when I left the United States to live in Paris, I felt disconnected. But then, five months later, when I left Paris, that feeling was reversed; now, whenever I read French news (ugh, I know I sound pretentious, but it really does help with practicing the language), I feel the gentle hum in my heart that signals a sense of connectedness—a deep resonance that makes everything in France as relevant to me as if I were still there. It is like hearing news about a distant relative; when it is bad news, you are upset; when it's good news, you are happy. But even when you are happy, there is a tinge of sharp somberness around the edges that makes the happiness painful, because you are not among those for whom the news is truly relevant. You are a distant island that gets messages from the mainland who knows little to nothing about your existence, and yet you still feel so deeply connected, like an ex who simply can't get over the breakup.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When I was in Paris, I felt like I was missing out. What was happening in the United States during the five months I was away? What did I miss? In fact, I missed a lot. Joyous occasions made me smile, tragedies resonated in me with a heavy sorrow and mourning, yet at the same time, I was detached by the force of nature, separated by thousands of miles of salt water from the source of joy and pain and everything that came out of my homeland, the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, such is the case with Paris. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Is there a protest going on today? A concert? I wonder who is sitting right now in the seat I sat in at the café </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Les Éditeurs </i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a few nights before my departure from Paris? I wonder what the reflection of the sun looks like right now on the Canal St. Martin? What the hell am I missing?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And so, I always knew I would miss Paris, and I do. I miss feeling the cool nighttime breeze that would whoosh through my open window and put me back to sleep when I couldn't fall asleep in the middle of the night. I miss sitting
outside in cafés, even during the winter when the warm overhead heating
lamps allowed for comfortable conversations with friends and customary people-watching. I miss the <i>métro</i> system, which is far faster and more efficient,
frequent, and understandable than the New York subway system. (Why hasn't NYC hopped on the tap-and-go bandwagon yet, instead of swiping a stupid, flimsy metro card that takes 14 tries to work?) I miss the fluffy, choux-praline paradise that is <i>Paris-Brest</i>, or the soft,
buttery, flakiness of a <i>pain au chocolat</i> that is so simple and inexpensive yet full of a humble, surprisingly complex, melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness. I miss being asked directions by passerby. I miss reading the free daily newspaper provided in metro stations. I miss hearing French conversations on the street and learning new slang. I miss the countless parks and squares that have their own particular vibes, atmospheres, crowds. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I miss being able to watch French music videos on YouTube without being told that they are not available in my country. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I miss the way the orange glow of streetlights is reflected on the cobblestone streets when they are coated in rain. I miss strolling
aimlessly through the book stands that line the Seine River. I even miss mundane tasks like grocery-shopping at <i>Monoprix</i>. I miss this time a drunk man pirouetted through the aisle of a metro car, blatantly singing in French "give me some money to eat, to eat, to eat, and drink" as he took a swig from a bottle of some kind of alcohol (an act strongly frowned upon in a country where wine is a religion and drinking from a bottle constitutes a blasphemy more sacrilegious than murder (for it is, in a way, a murder itself—the murder of an honor bestowed upon the righteous drink)). I miss seeing the Eiffel Tower slide into view from the window of the 6 <i>métro</i> train as the sounds from the dexterous accordion players resound in a cinematically </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paname</i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> way (even though when I was actually in Paris, I quickly started to roll my eyes and sigh in unison along with the irritated French commuters at the sight of an accordion player walking into the car).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the Paris one imagines and sees and hears about in films, and so when a sudden, unexpected moment becomes the real incarnation of such an imagined image, it is a surreal experience that makes you realize—holyshit, I'm in Paris. That is how it was every day, and when it came to a seemingly abrupt end, I felt like I had been stolen of a beauty and wonder that was too short-lived.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I imagine myself, years from now, visiting Paris and retracing the routes I would take to go to my apartment or to go to school or to go to a museum or to go to a park. Everything will be more or less the same, of course—the same as when I had been there in the past. And therein lies a simultaneously happy and sad feeling, a paradox of change and stagnation that coexist in a way that could never coexist within myself, a growing and changing and shifting human being. I miss Paris; I miss being a part of a new community, a new city, a new country. But I miss it without being missed in return. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> feel lucky to have something so beautiful to even miss in the first place. It comes in random pangs: I will see a photograph of a Parisian street, or a gust of wind will suddenly remind me of the springtime breeze blowing in the Luxembourg gardens, or I close my eyes while on the NYC subway and suddenly the rumble brings me back to the Paris </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">métro</i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. All at once, I feel Paris: I feel it alive again within me, yet this lasts for only a second or two, and I am left with the gnawing, stomach-twisting reality of nostalgia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That's why the nostalgia hurts, that's why the longing feels bitter more than sweet, that's why the feeling of missing something is never satisfied, exhausted, depleted. It is a one-way street, and you are met with a mixed sense of belongingness. I belong in New Jersey, I belong in New York City, and now I belong in Paris too. I am split into three channels; none of them care for the other, none of them cross paths, none of them need me to function. But I need all of them, and it is impossible to have them all at once.</span><br />
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My last batch of photos from spring break in May, taken in Vatican City.</div>
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The most striking part about Rome is the way it houses two very different time periods: ancient monuments that are thousands of years old sit right in front of your eyes, pasted against the sky casually while cars zoom back and forth. And it is hard to fathom the grandeur and significance of things right when you are in them, such as standing in the enormous Colosseum or inside the walls of the Pantheon. </div>
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There is also, of course, the food. The stereotype about pasta, pizza, and gelato being ubiquitous and delicious—well, it's true. It's everywhere, and it is <i>all good</i>. I still think about the linguine I had with cooked artichoke and ricotta cheese. Ugh, pasta here in America seems so lackluster now. Not to mention the scoops of Nutella and fresh cherry gelato that brought together a rich, chocolatey sweetness with a puckering tartness, rounded off with a soft white cream slathered on top...Rome really was a paradise for food.</div>
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And despite the fact that Rome is unavoidably a very touristy place—there are flocks of men trying to sell you toys and roses and weird lasers—there are gems to be found throughout the city that make you feel a little less like a tourist. One night, my friends and I decided to have a late meal at any restaurant that was open. We were tired, and so we chose an outdoor restaurant right on the street where we were staying during our trip. The weather in Rome is fantastically mild, especially in the evening. The restaurant was family-owned and though we did not know a lick of Italian, the woman serving us explained—in Italian, mostly—what each dish contained. Meanwhile, her small toddler son would run around doing half-cart-wheels on the sidewalk for us, his spectators, just so he could hear our <i>ooh</i>s and <i>wow</i>s as he demonstrated his athletic prowess. After we had dessert—we could not decide between 2 kinds of cake, and so the restaurant owner gave us a slice of each—we realized we were the only customers still there. The family who owned the establishment began bringing inside the other tables and chairs, but did not rush us at all or show any sense of hurried impatience. Instead, the toddler continued his feats of athleticism by helping his relatives bring in chairs that were bigger than he was. He craved attention from us newcomers while simultaneously smiling and acting embarrassed when he was conscious that he was being watched. His grandfather would laugh occasionally as he smoked a cigarette that he held with nothing but his lips. At one point, the little boy came up to us and gave us a key—presumably a really important one, because after I returned the key to his mother and thus exposed her son's benevolence with us strangers, she scolded him heartily. But the reprimand ended with a laugh as she looked at us, and we began to laugh too. We did not know Italian, and they did not know English, but it didn't matter. Language barriers didn't matter here. We shared a love of food but more importantly, a love of laughter, of happiness.<br />
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It sounds silly—cliché, perhaps. But I just don't know how else to express it. Even though we stayed in Rome for just 3 days, and despite the heavy tourism that guarantees you will hear countless conversations in American English from passersby on the street, there is a spellbinding charm that makes Rome glow with the warmth, authenticity, and richness that lies beneath its surface, an atmosphere that makes you feel at home almost instantly. Even on a late Tuesday evening, the city continues its liveliness with a youthful vigor that courses through its timeless antiquity like a paradox. A beautiful paradox, of course. If I can say anything about Rome, it sure is beautiful.</div>
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Here's the next batch of photos, taken between May 6th and 9th. I have one more post coming, and it will be solely dedicated to our trip to Vatican City.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359522616820307490.post-46003546423580781442013-08-03T19:11:00.000-04:002013-08-03T19:11:31.999-04:00Rome: Part 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Immediately after visiting Berlin, my friends and I flew to Rome to spend the last leg of our spring break in the beautifully historic city. I think out of all my spring break visits, I took the most photos in Rome, and really when you are in a city that has so much to offer, you can't help it. Rome is magnificent during the day and during the night; it is magnificent when it rains and when it is sunny. I took so many photos that I couldn't split up my Rome blog posts by day (since I took way too many pictures each of the 3 days that we was there). These photos were taken around the Capitoline Museums, <i>Il Vittoriano</i> (the monument for Victor Emmanuel II), and the Colosseum at night and day. (Click the photos to view them in a lightbox.)</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359522616820307490.post-57675879872427883812013-08-01T17:35:00.003-04:002013-08-01T17:35:41.716-04:00Berlin: Part 3Here is my last batch of Berlin photos, taken on May 5th at the Holocaust Memorial, Platz der Republik, Potsdamer Platz, and other random areas we came across on our walk around the city. As the sun set slowly that evening, we noticed brightly-lit carnival rides in the far distance behind shrouds of trees. We meandered towards that general direction, using the rides as a compass, and so our final night in Berlin was characterized by a beautiful and impromptu carnival.<br />
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The second batch of photos from Berlin, taken on May 4th.</div>
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During the week I spent in London with my friends, we wanted to take a trip to Brighton and meet our long-time Flickr friend <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lookleftandlookright/">Lauren</a>. She gave us a wonderful tour of the colorful, quaint tranquility that characterizes this beachside town. </div>
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Lauren in her dorm room. She has to be one of the nicest people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. (If you're reading this, I hope we can reunite soon, Lauren!)</div>
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Visiting Berlin was immediately a joy when we stepped into the apartment we were renting for 3 days. If you plan on traveling, keep <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/">Airbnb</a> in mind: they have great private apartments available and if you're traveling in a group, it can often run you under the cost of even a hostel, with far superior conditions.<br />
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And of course, the food was phenomenal. Eve, our friend and resident Berliner (who had spent her semester studying there) took us to the "Turkish Markets", which were full of some of the freshest, juiciest fruits and the most filling pastries and desserts I had ever tasted (including the delicious rhubarb pie shown below). We settled ourselves down on the ground and had an impromptu picnic before taking a stroll through the colorful streets of the city. The wonder of Berlin lies in its youthful, fresh vibe coupled with its artistic and historical significance and quiet, natural beauty.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359522616820307490.post-28719134361484106782013-06-08T18:22:00.001-04:002013-07-25T18:53:53.530-04:00London: Part 1Now that I am back home after living in Paris for 5 months, I've finally gotten around to editing the hundreds of photos that I'd taken since spring break (during which I visited London, Berlin, and Rome).<br />
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I spent a week in London (with a day-trip to Brighton), so here are the first batch of photos from April 26 to the 27th, taken around the Portobello Market, Buckingham Palace, and Trafalgar Square areas.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359522616820307490.post-25471489206184778222013-05-12T15:35:00.000-04:002013-05-12T15:52:14.618-04:00Cassis: Paradise On Earth (Really Though)Hey, everyone! I wanted to post this nearly a month ago, since these photos were taken on the 13th of April, right after the Marseille photos. But I've been so busy with school and spring break: I was in London, Berlin, and Rome, and just returned to Paris the other night. But those will be their own posts~<br />
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Anyway, I wanted to post the pictures I took in Cassis, a commune very close to Marseille that sits along the Mediterranean. We took a bus from Marseille to Cassis along the winding, railing-less roads that serpent around hills and mountains. Probably really dangerous, but hey, it was beautiful.<br />
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Cassis itself is probably one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I don't think words really do the place justice—so I hope my photos do. (Besides, I need to stop procrastinating and get to studying for my finals.)<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359522616820307490.post-51289895540307678842013-04-21T18:20:00.001-04:002013-04-21T18:21:46.379-04:00MarseilleNYU Paris has proven to be a lot more work than NYU New York—which is saying a lot, seeing as I am a double-major and a minor, and yet here in Paris, I am only taking classes for my French major. You'd think the workload would be a bit lighter when you are abroad, either simply because of that foreign air that somewhat drains school of its weight in comparison to the need to explore a new place, or because of an expected leniency on the part of the professors or the university. This was not the case, but of course I do share the blame since I chose classes that are heavy on reading (in French, naturally).<br />
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Anyway, these past few months have been really taxing in terms of school, especially since the semester began in January and we still haven't had spring break (April 25!!!! so soon). So when we had a weekend school trip to the south of France, it was more than welcome as a break from not only school, but also from the rainy, gloomy weather that has characterized Paris this year—a cold winter that has gone on for much too long, apparently, according to Paris's usual mild temperament. The first day of our trip was dedicated to Marseille, a city that dates back to 600 BC. And it is one of the most beautiful places I have been to yet. (I say <i>one </i>of, because the absolute most beautiful place I have been to is the commune called Cassis, which we visited the day after. But that will have it's own post in the coming week—stay tuned~)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359522616820307490.post-11665632946480142342013-04-07T13:37:00.002-04:002013-04-07T13:39:04.238-04:00Islands, Palaces, Flea Markets, Oh MyI know, I haven't posted in a whole two months. That's insane considering I've been in Paris, so you would think I would update more often. I seem to have a heavier courseload (readings, papers, everything) here at NYU Paris than at NYU in New York, which ultimately results in me not having as much time to update things like this blog—worse, though, is that it reduces the amount of time I get to spend exploring the beautiful city I have called home for almost three months now.<br />
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Regardless, I have been increasingly leaning towards the tendency to leave schoolwork in suspension in favor of taking advantage of Paris. (Of course, being an overachieving academic, though, I also do my work, but yeah.) Lots of late nights roaming the city, meeting new people, exploring new corners.<br />
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I haven't been taking as many pictures lately, though, and for that reason, last weekend I went around the city taking snapshots. I decided to dump them all here. Be warned, there are a lot; I did a lot of walking.<br />
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Île Saint-Louis</h3>
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gn6SJZyWygo/UWGYbQLWppI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/8lrXI7Lmbqc/s1600/8624722808_d9ccc8831d_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gn6SJZyWygo/UWGYbQLWppI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/8lrXI7Lmbqc/s320/8624722808_d9ccc8831d_b.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">There are two natural islands that sit in the Seine River—the popular</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.1875px;">Île de la Cité, and the lesser-known neighbor, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">Île Saint-Louis. I decided to take a stroll around the latter, in favor of finding some fresh new territory to scope out—and photograph. While the island sits in the center of Paris, it is surprisingly peaceful and calm, tucked away from the busy atmosphere that characterizes the parts of the city just over the bridges. The island isn't populated with much—in fact, there isn't a métro stop on the island itself (which is more shocking considering the plenitude of métro stops scattered around Paris). I took a solo tour around the island and through its narrow streets, and while there aren't many actual sites to see, save for the Saint-Louis-en-</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">Île Church and the occasional restaurant, the area is beautifully tranquil and picturesque in the way that many envision Paris to be.</span><br />
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Île de la Cité</h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">Crossing the </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">Pont Saint-Louis</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;"> brings you to the island's bigger brother, known especially for the Notre Dame Cathedral. In the cathedral's backyard lies the </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">Square Jean-XXIII</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">, which is the oldest public garden in the area. From there, I walked around the cathedral, crossed the </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">Pont d'Arcole</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">, walked by </span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">Hôtel de ville</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19.1875px;">, which houses the city's administration.</span></span><br />
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Place de la Concorde, and other things</h3>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6Paris, France48.856614 2.352221900000017748.6894665 2.0294984000000178 49.0237615 2.6749454000000177tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359522616820307490.post-82180366885247613502013-02-10T17:53:00.003-05:002013-02-10T18:03:46.129-05:00Parisian MeanderingA lot of the time, strolling around Paris means finding yourself in a random place far from where you began. You get off the <i>Bastille </i>metro stop and before you know it, you're in the <i>marais</i> or you're at Shakespeare & Co. or you're at the Louvre. It just happens.<br />
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I say that as a precursor to the photos below, which have only as a connection the fact that they were taken on the same day, along the same aimless promenade. The photos depict the winding streets of the 4th, 5th, and 6th <i>arrondissements</i>,<i> </i>as well as the interior of the Notre Dame Cathedral at night.<br />
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I don't have much else to say, other than life is going well. Classes are quite tough and intensive and I have a lot of homework and reading to do, but alas, I am <i>studying</i>, not <i>vacationing</i>, abroad. Anyway, I am uncharacteristically keeping this short. Here are the photos:</div>
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The narrowest street in Paris (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_du_Chat-qui-P%C3%AAche">Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche</a>)</div>
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The more I explore Paris, the more I realize how <i>much</i> there is to explore. The more I see, the more I want to see, and the more I realize I can't possibly see everything. Paris is truly a multifaceted city that has so many sights concentrated in small areas so that any <i>arrondissement </i>you are in at the moment will open up millions of new doors that you never knew existed. It is what makes Paris both beautiful and frustrating at the same time—frustrating because as the city constantly unfolds itself for your discovery, more of its inner workings, you understand its complexity which, in turn, leads to an understanding of the impossibility of fully grasping the city, of truly experiencing every nook and cranny.<br />
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(I feel like I'm being too <i>meta</i> here, but whatever, I'm an English and psychology double-major, do you really expect anything else from me? Anyway, I don't want to make this into a lengthy exploration of what it's like to be in Paris, because I did that already (and, knowing myself, will doubtlessly do again).<br />
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For now, here are some pictures of Montmartre. You may recognize this area as the setting of <i>Amélie</i>, which has been one of my favorite films since I first saw it when I was 10 or 11. The actual Montmartre is just as beautiful and charming as the one captured on film, and it was incredible to be able to walk the streets of a place I only loved on screen. I didn't get to see the famous café from the film, but rest assured, I am definitely revisiting Montmartre. There is so much left to explore there, and so far it has been one of the most entertaining, alluring, and charming places in Paris.<br />
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Paris. France. <i>Paris! </i>A city and country I've dreamed of visiting since I took my first French class in high school (more or less on a whim). Yet this is not merely a quick visit; I am studying and living here for a little over four months.<br />
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In some respects, that can be a short amount of time, but in others, quite lengthy indeed. I'm not one who deals well with goodbyes, and so parting from family and friends is always a great emotional ordeal.Add Paris to the mix, and four months, and living alone, and being over 3,000 miles away from home, and having Skype as the only means of tapping into my permanent life that I left behind—suffice it to say, it was not an easy transition.<br />
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And so, I deliberately chose not to post anything as soon as I got here, and I even felt the need to retire my camera on the shelf for a few days—not to gather dust, but to allow myself to absorb the first hours and days here, the preliminary moments of foreignness that hit me all at once as soon as the airplane landed in a snowy Charles De Gaulle airport.<br />
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I was met with sharp pangs of nostalgia and longing for my loved ones back home. My former dream to visit Paris had whittled down to a bygone, inaudible whisper in a matter of minutes.<br />
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This is why I chose not to post or take photographs or do anything of that sort, because I knew the first days would be academic, orientation-related activities that would fill my time up without leaving room for exploring the city I would be living in for the next several months and acquiring a proper sense of it. So I dared not fashion prejudgments of the sacred land of my dreams, dreams that had become (quite palpably) tenuous. But I knew that there was more to the city than the icy winds or the cold beds of the hostel that all students remained in until we were given our housing assignments.<br />
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I need not dwell on or recount those first few days, for they were comprised solely of arduous meetings and presentations and activities as part of our orientation, and they offered little taste of the true essence of Paris—especially since the hostel was in an area far removed from the heart of the city, devoid of any welcoming atmosphere. It felt like I was still in some part of New Jersey, and perhaps such a similarity would foster a kind of consolation, a comfort in familiarity. Yet the result was the opposite, and so I came to understand the nature of the initial malaise I encountered during the first few days of being in Paris—a complete lack of belongingness. Back home, both in New Jersey and in New York City, my existence is anchored; I have links, attachments, groundings. I know people, I know how to get to that café or that library or I know what highways to avoid during rush hour, I know the fastest way to get to the MET on the subway, I know how long it takes for an L train to arrive late at night. But I knew little of Paris, at least when it was real, right around me. Thus, I could not simply navigate my way out of the heavy and restless ennui that characterized the first few days. My presence served no purpose, and I didn't know the city well enough to wean some kind of purpose <i>from </i>it.<br />
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This is, of course, natural, and I noticed that this general feeling was not particular to me; many other students in the program echoed the same sense of disconnection from the world, a feeling of insignificance and ignorance of the surroundings, of not belonging here. That is the underlying discomfort and challenge in traveling to a new place—ridding yourself of the strings that fasten you to a particular location and thus create a relationship between you and "your place". This was not "my place", but I couldn't expect it to be. Not just yet.<br />
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Despite initial complications with housing/apartment assignments, I ended up in a <i>chambre de bonne</i>. Historically, a <i>chambre de bonne </i>was a small apartment for the domestic worker of a middle- or upper-class family living in the same building. Over the years, these small studios have been rebranded as <i>studettes</i>, for they are mostly rented out to students nowadays. The space is tight, but has all essentials. With each day, it gains more and more a kind of quaintness and charm in its modest possession of all that one needs without taking up much space. (I'll try and take some pictures of it some day soon.)<br />
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After settling down in my own dwelling, there was a new feeling of "my place". I could look at and explore the city anew, and I have to say, the city is beautiful. But the problem with saying "it is beautiful" is that such a phrase is overused and overheard to the point of rendering it completely banal and insubstantial. "Paris is beautiful" is both true and not true, because Paris is both beautiful and <i>more </i>than beautiful. The inherent difficulty in expressing Paris's appeal and wonder is that throughout my life and the lives of many others, Paris was a place only and always framed by a postcard or photograph or computer screen. To see Paris was to see an image of the Eiffel Tower, the most well-known icon in the world.<br />
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<i>Icon</i>. That is the point, here: Paris has always been beautiful from afar to the point where it has become an icon for everything—gastronomy, fashion, architecture, art. But when you walk into the courtyard of the Louvre, when you turn on a random street corner and suddenly the <i>real</i> Eiffel Tower is pasted against the sky (and it is lot bigger than I thought it would be), you realize that it isn't a postcard or photograph or computer screen, it is the real thing. The streets are often cobblestone-like, every building retains its old structure and beauty, there is a general charm laced with everything you see—and that is precisely what makes it so difficult to fathom at first. Everything is almost <i>too </i>beautiful to be real, <i>too </i>beautiful to exist outside of a postcard. But it is real, and when you are in the middle of it, when the buildings are real around you, when the intoxicating scent of bread wafts from the open doors of <i>boulangeries </i>that are sprinkled on every street, when an old man seated by the edge of a bridge starts playing an accordion as you look over the Seine, evoking the spirit of <i>Paname</i> (although Parisians will roll their eyes at the slightest sound of such accordion tunes)—this is when it becomes overwhelming, almost to the point of disbelief. I can't believe I'm here. But then after a while, you realize you <i>are</i> here, and that it is time to accept it and live it and breathe it and take it for everything its worth.<br />
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Late one evening, Jackie and I decided, on a whim, to go out to eat somewhere. I say "late" despite the fact that it was 10:30pm—early evening, by NYC's standards, but by the standards of Paris, where stores and restaurants close much earlier, it was late. When we opened the door outside, it was snowing softly, and the streetlights painted everything with a soft orange glow much unlike the sickly orange streetlights found in the U.S. that I find induce a vague, dizzying nausea. There is no such harshness here. The air was sharp and cold as snowflakes fell on our eyelashes. It was quiet, but not eerily so. The quietude that reigned was one characteristic of snowy nights, a quietude of tranquility. As we walked towards slightly more bustling parts of the 16th <i>arrondissement</i>, a group of teenagers were congregated at the corner of an intersection, laughing and throwing snowballs at each other. We couldn't help but smile at them, despite the fact that we were probably not much older than they were.<br />
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We ate at an Italian restaurant, then went to a McDonald's. Not very classically French, and yet at the same time, it felt so. I'm not a frequenter of McDonald's, but in Paris, they have <i>frappés</i> that come in a pistachio flavor—subtle, with a sweet aftertaste, akin to the scent of almond extract. I may sound silly for heightening the grandeur of McDonald's food and drink, but really, everything is heightened in Paris (including the prices, of course). It was quite strange to have something taste so good from a place that I would never normally visit back home, precisely for its characteristic subpar quality.<br />
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We walked back to the apartment as the snow continued to fall. The next day, the snow continued, and Jackie and I went to the <i>marais</i> to hang out with a fellow NYC friend, Logan. This time, Jackie and I agreed that we would pick up our cameras and finally take pictures of the city to which we were beginning to warm up (despite (or sometimes because of) the icy cold winter that surrounded us).<br />
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We ate at a falafel restaurant and afterwards, walked all around the narrow, winding streets of le Marais, then made our way to the Notre Dame, the Louvre, the pont des Arts. Snow, I learned, is quite rare in Paris, and yet my first week and a half constituted little else. It was an added fortune to see the city covered in it. Snowball fights became a common occurrence, and as I held my camera's viewfinder to my eye to capture a snowy street, a woman passed by and said <i>"C'est très rare !" </i>And that was exactly it: it was rare, and so everyone was taking advantage of it, not just us newcomers. A bunch of adults were having a snowball fight in the middle of a random street; on one of the bridges, a snowball fight erupted between passersby on the bridge and a bunch of tourists on a sightseeing boat on the Seine just underneath. I couldn't help but laugh. It was all unrealistically quaint, or—dare I say—cute? I'm not a terrible fan of that word, but when you see complete strangers having snowball fights between the top of a bridge and a boat underneath, smiling and laughing and acting like children, how can it be anything else?<br />
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Everything is calming in one way or another, as if the city wishes to ease your worries or concerns or anxieties in any way that it can. That is the true beauty of Paris—its subtleties, its feelings, its unexpected moments of smile-inducing delight and charm that simply cannot be channeled into words, in part due to their complexity and in part due to their complete novelty. Like when you realize the Eiffel Tower is not just a pretty monument seen in small photographs, but also an excellent directional compass when trying to find your way around the city. Or when restaurants stop serving food late at night but you have no where to eat or buy food, and so an elderly restaurant-owner lets you in anyway because he knows how hungry you are, and then proceeds to ask you about life and school and what you're studying. Or when you buy a <i>pain au chocolat</i> without the <i>boulangère </i>even recognizing that you aren't originally from here. Paris is daunting at first, but if you scratch at the surface, you uncover its richness, its layers, its intricacies. It is a city that does not merely present itself, rather a city that must be explored and experienced, for it is only through direct experience that one can understand the true, elusive wonder that has come to characterize the City of Light.<br />
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The street I walk down to get to my <i>chambre de bonne</i></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359522616820307490.post-55045700414187460742012-12-23T11:42:00.001-05:002012-12-23T11:42:24.832-05:00Life, etc.I feel compelled to make a new post more out of a desire to have a somewhat thorough update of life since the last time I truly updated—over a month ago. So much has been going on and yet nothing has been going on at the same time, which tends to cancel out thoughts and emotions and leave behind a muddled mix of slosh that I don't have the motivation to clarify. Exams, papers, finals, an insanely chaotic academic semester have now come to a close. This was, quite simply, the most difficult semester, yet the fault lies with me for choosing to double-major (English and psychology) <i>and </i>minor (French). Oh, and it didn't help that I had three finals on the same day. Oh well. In other aspects, my life has been the best it has ever been. And for that, I am grateful. I was lucky to have lived in NYC for these past few months, and sitting on my bed at home in New Jersey makes me realize, after a mere 3 days, how much I miss it.<br />
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And then there is Paris. I have barely moved back home and yet I am already trying to finalize the paperwork for studying abroad in Paris this spring semester. I leave on January 14th. It seems so soon. Everything has been happening too fast and I just want to chain everything down for a minute so I can soak it all in without feeling like it will all slide away.<br />
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There are parts of the past that are still relevant now, and thus warrant a continued portion of my brain for reflection. Naturally, the present is also relevant, and so many of my thoughts are in that domain. And yet, the future is more relevant than ever before, so my thoughts—and actions—are dedicated to future events that have not yet occurred, and who knows if they even will?<br />
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This is all very rambly, disjointed, fragmented, etcetera. I recognize this, for it is the exact carbon copy of my current state of mind. A lot going on at once, a lot to do at once. I hope I can use these 3 weeks to get it all together and unwind. I need to write more, draw more, paint more, finish some design things, cook more, bake more, catch up on TV shows and movies, see the friends I haven't seen in ages.<br />
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A lot is happening, and a lot is going to happen quite soon. I think the worst part is that I don't know how to write it all down.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0