i'm in paris with katrina and simon and ayoola. it's great. like rome, everyone here is beautiful. and the boys have nice haircuts, which i think is important.
as soon as we arrived in paris and had dropped our bags off with simon's lovely younger sister we found ourselves at a barbecue full of french people. us english lot were quite antisocial and just sat in a corner catching up and eating stolen baguettes. i drank quite a lot of chinese beer (which, i have discovered, is very nice) and then most of a bottle of white wine and then i don't remember much after that except i know that we somehow got to a bar (and this was only at about 9pm) and i had two margaritas and me and katrina were singing and then i fell asleep on an oriental woman on the train.
yesterday we spent a large part of the day with simon, first of all inviting ourselves to his (beautiful) flat on rue pestalozzi on the cinquieme arrondissement to use his shower because we were very homeless-looking. then we drank japanese tea by the window overlooking the street and ate little chocolate biscuits. then simon took us around the local area (rue mouffetard is wonderful) - we went to the jardin des plantes and then sat in the luxembourg gardens in the sun by the fountain. when it started to get cold we headed back to collect our bags and make our way to katrina's. on the journey i found myself getting progressively tired and woozy and realised that i was feeling the effects of a very strong painkiller that simon gave me for my wisdom tooth. so when i got to katrina's i tried to have a nap but instead ate some cheese and then lay on her bed thinking.
that evening we made pasta with courgettes and we met a russian boy who was making himself a very strange supper of overboiled sprouts and cauliflower in a saucepan. he invited us to share a bottle of wine with him (in the kitchen) and we introduced him to the delights of gin. he was the most hilarious person i have ever met, partly because his english was a little strange. upon tasting the gin he remarked, after a long pause, 'it is......... pleasant'. he was so sweet. i fell in love with him a little bit.
today is a new day and we are meeting the english kids in town for lunch. then we are having dinner with katrina's mum. i am going to be a big fat when i leave here.

good day, mon petit blog.