Yesterday

At midday i left for the Eiffel tower to busk with me pipes on my way there a African man wanted to show me something (a little cautious at this point but to many people to do much harm) he told me to hold my hand out and slipped a piece of string around my index finger and told me to close my hand tight (at this point I thought it was a magic trick) he continued to twist and turn and plat and made quite a cool design out of this piece of string (well 6 strings) and he tied it around my wrist and cut off the loose ends and said "now you pay money for that" *sigh* tourist scam.
Well I did what a sucker would do and pulled out my wallet then he said "you pay ten for this"
10 EUROS thats like $20-$25 NZD for a piece of string, c'mon major tourist scam.
I felt guilty because he obviously needed money more than i did and i was on my way to busk hoping to make more so I gave him 4 euros (stil too much) and went on my way.

OK now a gypsie saw all this (thinking I was easily tricked ) rushed up beside me and bent over to pick up something, I saw nothing there but she managed to find a gold ring (in case you didn't realise it was in her hand) she showed me the ring and showed me two marks inside the ring (like a value stamp) then she showed me it didn't fit and she tried to give it to me *sigh*

WHO DO THESE FRENCH PEOPLE THINK I AM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:O

*sighs again* I said "non merci" insisting it upon her and then I walked off. Ok this never happened but this is what would happen if I accepted the ring she "supposedly" found - she would ask for something in return i.e money, note this ring would be made of copper or iron just colored gold on the outside.

Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

I also pitied her but hers was more of a trick than the Africans so we parted ways.

Anyway i got to the Eiffel tower tuned my bagpipes played 1 tune when a police officer (carrying a large gun) told me that i can't play here, well a man pitied me (German or Deutsch) and told me "Life is tough, don't give up" and gave me 5 euros (I wasn't asking for money I was there to entertain and practise then a Lady gave me 1 euro as I was packing up my pipes, so i made 6 euros I had 4 "scammed off me" and I spent 2 on a coke so I left with the same amount I came with.

Seeya next time

THE ADVENTURER

2 days ago

A couple of days ago Tristan and I went to the "saint chapel" Pronounced "sun shu-pel" it took us an hour to get there by metro then a bit of walking, another 20 minutes queing, and when we got to the part were you pay.....................

....................we couldn't go in D: why? we were both under 18 without a guardian. O.o, I mean WTF?

We were both thirsty at this point so we went to Mc Donalds for a couple of cokes.small coke ?

Anyway we went to wait for Sybille for lunch we arrived 10 minutes early at the metro station she was going to arrive at . . . . . . . . . . 45 mins later we were still waiting, we went above ground to see if she was up there and surprise surprise, she was up there and had been waiting for an hour and a half. Well we went to a Thai restaurant were I had

Entree: salad and i think small deep fried spring rolls?
Main: chicken curry with rice
Desert: Thai flan
Drink: origuana (a brand of orange juice)

On the way to the metro station we saw protesters, they were protesting for rights or something (they were black and it was race rights or something)

there were at least 100 police there all in heavy armor of some kind and big rifles (scary police in france)the protesters melted 4 trash/wheelie bins :O
and burned paper and wood and other items.

Well Tristan went home to play on his computer Sybille went back to work because she was expecting a call and I went to the Louis XIII square

Ill do one more post before I go to bed i think

:)

OK straight into it,

A few days ago we(Sybille, Tristan, Seraphine and I) went to a high school get together party (Sybille's high school) I played football with a couple of other kids. We filled up coke bottles and drenched each other, then it rained HEAVILY and those that didn't get drenched got drenched. This all happened on the other side of Paris. After this "high school reunion" we went to a Cafe with a friend of Sybilles, were I had a small choclate cake with a very sweet and very strong cocoa flavour. On the way home we stopped off at a castle from the "17th century?"

here are a few of pics of it.ME :DSybilles friend pointing showing Tristan and Seraphine something.Tristan and seraphine (the castle was behind me when i took that photo)

On the final drive home Tristan, Seraphine and I waved out the window to random people to see if they would wave back xD (note we may have been high on coke and cake)

The adventurer has not finished yet




wait yes he has

OK

Not much happening lately written a bunch of post cards, which I will post the rest on Monday.
My French has slowed down but I am speeding it up again.
MY HAIRCUT
it was a very small haircut took a lot of hair off the back (of my head :P) Trimmed the fringe and the sides

Twp pictures 1st before, 2nd after.

seeya




:D

BTW

click on the pictures to make them bigger

:D

REUBEN

Annoying Blogger and PICS

Stupid Blogger, it wouldn't let me post or upload pictures yesterday but I'm pretty sure its working now.

OK

Pictures of the Lourve

This one is the entrance, yup the glass Pyrimad is the Entrance there are 2 (could be more) levels below ground and about 3 or 4 above you can see the levels above on the left and on the right of the Pyrimad.


Statues outsideLOTS of Greek statues inside LOTS!!!

French paintings exhibition


The Entrance (below the pyrimad)


Greek paintings


The Mona Lisa
I was lucky there wasn't a big crowd like there usually is.


Venus de Milo
The most famous Greek statue.

Thats all the pics for now, I have more but I can't upload them all

and I had a hair cut, ill take a photo as soon as there is space on my camera (too many Louvre photos)

seeya

Reuben

THIS WEEK

I have been to a couple of museums, a war museum and the Louvre the war museum had everything from knights armor to WWII, some of the armor and swords were pretty cool.
The 2nd museum "the Louvre" is the biggest museum in the world s i couldn't see all of it in just 2 hours, I just went to 2 of their exhibitions, a Greek statue one and a Italian painting one.
I saw the Mona Lisa which was a little bigger than i expected and the Venus de Milo which was also bigger than predicted to be.

On both of those occasions I found the French metro system very handy, just one ticket can take you to the other side of Pars in 15 minutes 0.0 <- its a face.
I have bought 8 postcards and I will be posting them to friends and family tomorrow.
I am in good health and I am really enjoying France (obviously)

BTW I have pictures from the museums and I will post them tomorrow.

REUBEN

JUNE THE 5th

These past 4 or 5 days I have been quite ill but I am feeling alot better now.
I have been studying alot more French and I can look at a sentence and get the main meaning out of it (about 75% of the time) and if it is spoken about 50% of the time.
Some of the schooling is getting easier (except HIGEO) and I just remembered the school holidays are here in about a week and they will last about 2 months :) . I have been trying to get hold of a class photo because everyone else in my class got one except me :( if I can get a photo or a photocopy I will post it here.
It is my sisters birthday today (or yesterday if you consider the time difference) she will be 17 years old :D

here is my translation of the above text
Ces 4 ou 5 jours, j'ai été très malade, mais je suis bien maintenant.
J'ai été une étude beaucoup plus français et je peux regarder une phrase et obtenir le sens principal de celle-ci (75% du temps) et si elle est parlée environ 50% du temps.
Certains de la scolarité devient plus facile (l'exception HIGEO) et je viens de rappeler les vacances scolaires sont ici dans environ une semaine et ils dureront environ 2 mois:). J'ai essayé de se procurer une photo de classe parce que tout le monde dans ma classe a obtenu un sauf moi: (si je peux obtenir une photo ou une photocopie, je poste ici.
C'est mon anniversaire aujourd'hui sœurs (ou hier si l'on considère la différence de temps), elle aura 17 ans :D

I have taken the liberty of putting it through a translator to see if I got it correct

These 4 or 5 days, I was very sick but I am good now.
I have been a much larger study French and I can look at a sentence and get the main meaning of it (75% of the time) and if it is spoken about 50% of the time.
Some of schooling becomes easier (except HIGEO) and I just remind the school holidays are here in about a week and they will last approximately 2 months:) . I tried to get a photo class because everyone in my class earned a save me (if I can get a photo or a photocopy, I post here.
It's my birthday today sisters (or yesterday if one considers the time difference), she will be 17 years :D

PS I did use a couple of books and a little of the internet to translate it into French and I used another program to correct my spelling (i.e turning e into é and such)

the adventurer