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The best crepe I've ever had, made by this guy.
Sunset at the Marsielle harbor.
The highest cliff in France, right next to Cassis on the boat trip.
Dana and I at the harbor of Marseille.
Spices from the food market!!!

^Marsielle boat trip on the coast!!!!!!!One of the hundreds of fountains in Aix, it was really beautiful everywhere.
Great hot chocolate with a chocolate bar and a cookie, and a game of scrabble.
I can't remember the name of the mountain in Aix, but Cezanne was obsessed with painting it. It is a really weird mountain.
In Cezanne's studio!!!



This past weekend I went on a trip to Aix en Provence and Marsielle, and it was really magical. In Aix en Provence, we strolled the streets and saw great art in the Granet Museum, where there was an exhibition on Cezanne and Picasso and how Cezanne heavily influenced Picasso's work. We had a chance to go to Cezanne's studio that he architected himself, and in the studio there were the original paints, bottles, glasses, easels, everything that he actually used and painted in his work. During our time in Aix, I had the best banana of my life at this open fresh food market, where Dana and I sampled every cheese and meat that we could, and I also had the best banana and nutella crepe ever on the streets. The town is extremely clean and beautiful and everyone is really good looking there, it was really perfect. We found a little english book store, and we spent a good amount of time there playing an intense game of scrabble, that I got 3 out of 4th in, which isn't bad for me haha. The rest of Aix consisted of having a crazy night in the hotel, making a fort and playing music and having a light show, and lots of other random fun things. On our last day, we decided to head down to Marseille, which is only a 15 minute bus ride! We get there, and the first thing we find out is that we can't go home until the next day, so we were going to have to spend the night in the train station. We decided not to worry about it, and we went and explored the town. The first thing we find is a flea market, and I find the two things that I have been wanting right away, a european gamecube with two controllers and a polaroid camera, it was amazing. Then, when I didn't think my luck could be any better, we find the cheapest thrift store and I found tons of new clothes that were cheap and good. After that, we walked down the street and ended up at the harbor of Marsielle which is really beautiful. Anne and I decided to check out and see if we could take a boat ride, and we found one that took us all along the coast from the harbor to Cassis, another town. It ended up being one of the most beautiful boat rides of muy life and it gave me a chance to see the coast of France, which I never knew was so amazing. We went in to all the little creeks and crevices finding the small villages of people that live there, and we went to Cassis, where we saw the quarrys of precious cassis stone which is on the bottom of the statue of liberty, it was so great. Then we hung out in a fastfood european resteraunt on the harbor and watched the sunset.

We walked back to the train station, and hung out for a few hours, and we found out that Dana's mom would not let us stay in the train station for the night, so she got us a hotel! It was really great and so nice of her, it would of been really cold and bad staying out all night. Then we caught our train in the morning, I slept the whole ride, and then we had drawing class right away.

The rest of the day was spent figuring out my class schedule, which I am still working on.

Today we had our normal classes at the Fiap, and we had a photo critique where we narrowed down everyone's best photos, and then decided which was the best of the best, and somehow people picked mine! I was really suprised. We also got our papers on Don Quixote back and I got a B+, so I was pretty happy with that.

After class, we went to the Louvre and walked around Napolean's apartments, which are ridiculously extravagant. It really was wayyy to ornate, but that is what he wanted, and felt he deserved during his time. Then we went and walked around the Ruben's room and through the Rembrandt paintings and other holland painters like Frans Hals. It is really nice to study the painting in class, then go see them in the evening, it is a good system.

Now I am waiting in the lobby for a concert to start, and I can see a drum set, a bari sax, an alto sax, a trumpet, trombon and a guitar and bass, so it should be a pretty fun concert here in the Fiap!!!! Also, pretty soon, our group is going to put on a concert in the Fiap, so that will be interesting :)

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