If you are a Coldplay fan, you need to get back to me immediately. My mom has access to a pre-sale on Tuesday. Tickets are $70/person, but let's face it, people. It's Coldplay- one third of the Holy Trinity of Music. And the concert is at VA Beach, so it's close to Wilma. Let me know and I'll get back to my mom. Either way, I AM GOING and ( Read more... )

The Frames concert = aweeeessssssoooommmmeee ( Read more... )

( It's 60 degrees and magical. )

Um, here are some pictures I took last Friday. Sorry no descriptions, except to say my face only there for benefit of parents, who ask for pictures as if they don't believe I'm really here. Took long time to upload and now computer dead. Regardez.

( A Day in the Life )

Everything is beautiful ( Read more... )

I was literally woken up today by a guy on the street below with one of those portable calliope things. I thought the circus was in town ( Read more... )

I can't even describe how much I love living in a city. There is a little booklet each week of things to do that's nearly 150 pages long. There are film festivals, clubs, markets, and anything you could ever want EVER just a metro ride away. It's still a very quiet city, though. People talk very quietly on the street, even on their cell phones ( Read more... )

I am alive! I am in Paris!

Letters and cartes postales may be addressed to:

Amanda Ognibene
c/o CEA
5 rue de Charonne
75011 Paris
France

(from the US:
$.80 for a letter
$.70 for a postcard)

I leave on Monday, guys! I'm doing this!
Now must figure how to get Life into one Suitcase of Gigantic Proportions.

Goals for this semester:

Gain 20 lbs. by stuffing face with whole milk and butter and chocolate
Gain conversational French skills
Gain hott European style
Gain fame as a photographic genius

Lose 20 lbs. by skipping the metro and walking places
Lose vision of Parisians as clones of Louis, the chef in the Little Mermaid
Lose the bad hair