In a very indirect way, my host mom said I should spend the day out of the house because of their huge lunch party on Sunday. They were hosting the godparents of my host kids because their baptism is coming up and it is catholic tradition... Fine by me!
Church was an intense 2.5 hours of sitting in the chapel listening to ward conference...in French....for, like, ever. Oh man! But I sat by the soeurs, so all was okay.
It was fast sunday, so I was totally going to bear my testimony in French (I was so not prepared but I was gonna try lol) but it was ward conference! A little bit of relief, a little bit of dissapointment...actually a lot of relief! But, lo and behold, it was like we had a food party after church! People brought a lot of food to share; a perfect mix of African foods and French. I totally ate gluten and felt like I might throw up after but c'est la vie! Meanwhile, I did zero talking in French and, aside from some American counterparts, acted like a complete loner. Zero points for Julia! That was fabulous..
Well then after church, with soooo much time to kill before returning home, I went into Paris and met up with Hannah and Aubrey. It was the first day of carnaval and there was a big parade going on somewhere in this gigantic city and so we attempted to go celebrate but got bored. I knew the celebration/parade was ending at Place de la Republique but we got there about 2 hours ahead of it...woops! It was a gorgeously sunny day (freezing cold, but hey) so we just walked around and enjoyed more sights of the city! There is always something new to see!
It was a miss after miss with Hannah- bad luck day hahaha. First, her favorite passage was closed, then Printemps with the killer view was closed, then something else was closed...but nonetheless, it was beautiful and fun, as always.
We eded up on the Champs-Elysses and I made my first voyage into Abercrombie. The building itself is worthy of royalty. The smell coming from inside is hard to miss from a mile away and the clothing is way overrpriced as usual, but, checked that one off my list!
We also saw a small parade tribute happen where a large group of old people, some carrying flowers and some with flags for the French military branches, marched down the Champs-Elysses towards the Arc de Triomphe. It was so cool!
Aubrey and I ended up getting hungry and settling for MacDo so we sat and talked for well over an hour while I ate 2 things of french fries....(Only gluten free thing aside from a meager cup of leaves). Our convo started at Downton Abbey and Aubrey telling me everything that happens in season 6 and in every other direction after that.
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