Bonjour!!!!

Posted by Linh

Hello everyone!  How are you guys?  Hope you still doing well!

Oh!  This month is so great!!!  I mean we have two days which are bank holidays. That means we have 3 days off at the weekend!!!  Goodbye hard studying, hello traveling!!!  (Hey don’t tell that to the teacher ok? I promise I still keep up with school work :D (Crosses fingers)

The 1st bank holiday has passed.  It was on 4th May. We just had class in Friday morning, so I and Saray – one of my classmates who is from Venezuela, decided to book a flight to Paris from Friday afternoon till Monday evening (4th May).

The 1st day:

We bought the plane tickets from EasyJet.  The flight took just about 1 and a half hours but we got to the hotel at about 12 am.  However, the tiring trip did not make us stay in the hotel long; we woke up early next morning (or that morning) to go to the Museum of Louvre.  And that was the first time I feel glad that I was not 18 yet (c’mon, I was so bored of being 17, cannot sign the contract with the mobile company, can not go home late etc).  I did not have to buy the ticket to go inside the museum!

 

The museum was so large that we spent the whole day there.  I saw the original Mona Lisa picture and the statue of the Venus de Milo.  It was impossible to go near the ‘treasure’ because of security and it was hard to get a good place to take the picture as it was so crowded with tourists and people who wanted to have a view of a 77×53 picture which was at least 2 meters away.  Anyway, that was absolutely a great experience.  Besides, there were many other fascinating masterpiece I had not seen before (and by ’seen’, I mean really see in real life and touchable).  Here are just some in hundreds of photographs we took there.

I was quite exhausted at the end of the day, but we still managed to have a view of Cathedrale Notre-Dame and River Seine. Near there, we met a group of guys skating.  They are so amazing, their movements is no different, or even better than a ballet.  Admiring them too much, we finally took all our courage to ask one for a photograph.  That was an unforgettable memory.

 

The 2nd day:

Waking late the next day and still feeling a little bit tired of walking all the previous day, we spent half an hour to decide where to go because there were so many beautiful places.  Eventually, Disneyland was our final choice.

It was quite far from our hotel so it took more than half an hour to get there.  I was too excited about my first visit to the wonderland!  The trip made me feel like I was a baby girl again, nothing to worry, nothing to care, singing out loud in the middle of the park, watching Donald Duck, Peter Pan, Cinderella dancing, joining the dancing lesson with Stitch (it’s a famous character in a serial films in Disney Channel: Lilo and Stitch)…  Everything was great and perfect, except the rollercoaster which made my cry out loud later (it was scary, how come people can laughed and happy like that?).  And it took my friend a while to calm me down after she asked to try it again.

 

“Ah, it is the last day, there are still thousands places I haven’t visited yet. Where should I go now? Where? Where?”.  I screamed out loud the next morning, feeling worried, frustrated and confused.

“Hey girl, your life is still long.  You can go back to Paris later.  Don’t worry."  "But there are these places I’m not gonna miss today. So pack up and prepare!!!”  My friend smiled and it certainly made me feel better.

So the 1st place on the last day is a restaurant called Hard Rock Café.  It was nicely decorated with many guitars hanging thorough the room.  Later, I knew that they were all the guitars which had been played by famous singers.  My friend told me that Hard Rock Café was very famous and it appeared in many cities and countries around the world, such as Las Vegas in US, Spain, Mexico, and even in London. Hard Rock Café in Las Vegas even had a costume that Madonna wore in a show and then gave it to the restaurant as a gift.

Farewell to Hard Rock Café, we then headed to Louis Vuitton.  The trip was tiring and I had to carry the suitcase all the way because we had to return to the room at the hotel.  However, when I entered the shop, it liked you entered a suit life.  The stuff was expensive but there were still many customers there.

Next stop was the Arc de Triomphe.  The triumphal arch honours those who fought for France, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars.  On the inside and the top of the arc there are all of the names of generals and wars fought.  Underneath is the tomb of the unknown soldier from World War I.

 

There were four more hours until we had to get to the airport, so we decided to go to a place that if you did not go there in your first time to Paris, it would have meant that you were not in Paris.  And what I am talking about is: EIFFEL TOWER.

Lying under the sunlight in front of Eiffel Tower, I had a strange feeling.  It did not feel like the excitement in Disneyland; it did not like the mystery atmosphere in Louvre Museum. It was, how can I say, may be… peaceful.

The sun was shining, but not burning, the wind was blowing, but not violent, the cloud was floating, but not hasten.  You looked in the sky, and you knew that there was nothing to be regretted, nothing to be hurry because the time was like stopping there; you knew that you did not feeling lost because it felt like belonging, like… home.  (I don’t mean that I forgot my country or anything like that, it just a sudden emotion).

Unfortunately, that dream was too unbelievable to happen, the sky started to be darker, the wind blew stronger and it was time to go.  However, I already drew a picture which is a part of Eiffel Tower, so that I could never forget that precious moment in my life.

Adieu France! I will miss you so much!!!

Comments

[Nguyen Dieu Linh]

thank you!!! ^^

[peter madams]

That's a nice article Linh, and great photos.