Pasta in a box. What more needs to be said?! Ever since I saw other EAP students with this mysterious pasta-in-a-box, I have been dying to try it. The novelty! I realized I was not alone when I was discussing what to do last Friday with my friends, and I was like, "OMG, we should get that pasta that comes in a box!" and they instantly both knew what I was talking about and agreed. So we had a picnic in the Jardin Public (Public Gardens) with the famous box-pasta. I got a "petit cup" with pesto. It was pretty good! And the box was indeed very convenient. The wonders of French cuisine!!!
The Jardin Public was huge and very pretty. There are a lot of grassy areas and small ponds. There's also a carousel and a playground for little kids. Well, okay, we're all in college, and we still went on the seesaw. But those pictures will not be posted...After walking around the Jardin Public, we took the tram a few stops to the Tour Pey-Berland, which was built as the bell tower for the Cathédrale St-André in the 1400's. Today, you can climb 232 steps to get to two levels of viewing areas at the top. And it's free if you're either under 18 or 18-25 and a legal resident of France! So we all made sure to bring our passports or photocopies to show our visas, but then they didn't even check and just waved us through.
The staircase leading up the tower is made of these really cool spiraling stone steps. It's very narrow and steep though, so letting people who were going down pass us made me a little nervous. Once we got up to the first level though, the view was amazing! You can see the cathedral that's right next to the tower, and pretty much all of Bordeaux. When you get up to the very top, the steps get really narrow, and even I had to duck to go through the tiny door to the second viewing area. The view from the very top is even more amazing! You can see for miles, and the architecture of the tower at the top is really cool too. There are gargoyles and these interesting designs on the triangular part of the top of the tower. And you can see the statue at the very top looks like it's peering down at you!
In other news, I'm still figuring out my classes. I went to a literature class today; it sounds like it will be intense but interesting. It was a two hour class, and when the professor gave us a break halfway through, she announced that this was a "five minute break, so don't come back in fifteen minutes. If you're going to smoke a cigarette, make it a half a cigarette." And my friend from EAP and I just looked at each other and were like, okay... that is not something you would hear back in California!
À bientôt!
When I read the title of this post I thought you had pasta in a night club.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I just watched Glee at school WITHOUT YOU. Quelle tristesse )))):
ReplyDeletemdrrrrr noooo a literal boîte!!!
ReplyDelete:(((((((( tristesse indeed!!!