Photodocumentationisme 2: le chemin

Alors, voila mon chemin a l'ecole (accents omitted). Yeah, my walk to school. It's exciting, somewhat, and boring, mostly. But anyway, this is what it's like to live life as a student in Paris, supposing you live a 10 minute walk away from your school (and it is more efficient for you to walk to school than to take the metro). It's a pretty exciting journey, that took me about 2 weeks to get down to a science, but now I can practically walk it blindfolded. It can be annoying when it's raining, and I'm often tempted to take the metro in that case, but then I realise that's just dumb. Besides, rain in Paris is much more beautiful than rain anywhere else. And, of course, romantic.

Anyway, shall we start the walk. First off, here is me getting ready for school ("they grow up so fast"). Notice how attentively I am watching my computer shut down. It doesn't like to shut down. It's weird. Ooo, and also notice my sexy coat (with totally UNsexy buttons that fall off every 2 days...well, not anymore, since I triple reinforced them, but still).

Alright, so then, I go down the stairs one floor (I took a picture of the stairwell, but it didn't turn out very well), and am out on rue St-Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (yes, long name, not-so-long street). Regardez:Yay European cars! Hehe, notice how cute they are. And how they have grown by like 2.5 square cm in length (according to le Monde, that's the case with the 2007 Smart car). Ok, moving on, next we turn left onto rue du Cherche-Midi (below),Fun billboard, rue du Cherche-Midi

which we take one block to rue Jean Ferrandi: There's another sign on the other side that says that Jean Ferrandi was an "homme politique et conseil general du 6eme," and something about the military. Uninteresting I'm sure. Wikipedia him if you're interested. Anyway, more of his rue:

The building that's been under construction forever (always a complicated obstacle to navigate)

The G20 supermarket at the end of the street.

Alright, so that brings us to rue de Vaugirard, home of a Holiday Inn and a private high school, neither of which I decided to feature here (though I do have pictures of those). In any case, here's the crazy intersection of like 5 different streets at the end of Vaugirard (maybe he's the military one, I don't remember). Almost there!

Traffic!

From here, cross behind that bar on the right of the photo, straight across, past the metro station, and there's rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, famed home of I.S.E.P., Stanford in Paris' host institution:

I.S.E.P. building, and children crossing sign. Yeah, they're the same as the ones in the U.S., basically.

Now there are some stairs to climb (unless you're just going to class, which is on the 2nd [3rd U.S.-style] floor). In any case, once you've climbed the seemingly endless way to the 6th/7th U.S. floor, you arrive in the beautiful, Mac-infested Stanford Center:

Aren't they pretty :)?

Right, so, there are infinitely more pictures than this, but it takes like 20 minutes to load each set of 5, so, don't think that's happening. Anyway, this concludes the second part of my Photodocumentationisme feature (btw, that's a made-up word, but I think it totally could exist). And, I think, that'll be the update for this week. For now. Maybe later I'll talk about Jess & Julia's visit and our amazing night at le Queen (is there any other type of night there?) We'll see. Anyway, off to correcting my paper. Good night!