16 February 2009

Ce que je veux faire avant de rentrer

As promised, here's my semi-translated first draft of my list of things that I want to do before leaving Paris. It's random and it's so much, but I think I can do it!

  • See at least one play
  • Finish my "City Walks of Paris"
  • Find all the landmarks from the film Charade
  • Watch at least one more French movie at a theater
  • Read along one of the quais of Ile Saint-Louis
  • Drink with friends on the quais of the Seine/Pont des arts/along Canal St.-Martin
  • Watch at least one film from the Nouvelle Vague at the film library
  • Actually send people postcards !
  • Watch a French film at Reid Hall
  • See the French production of The Lion King
  • Go to the Comédie Française
  • Eat a macaroon
  • Go to the flea markets

  • See the following expositions before their respective end dates:
    « Notorious » (le 22 février)
    « Rapa Nui, L'Ile de Pâques » (le 1er mars)
    « Instants d'architecture » à la Maison du Danemark (le 8 mars)
    « Gainsbourg 2008 » à la Cité de la Musique (le 15 mars)
    « Le petit dessein » au Louvre (le 13 avril)
    « 80 + 80, photo_graphisme » (le 25 avril)

    « Le Petit Nicolas» (le 7 mai)

  • Visit the following:
    Musée de Picasso
    Maison de Victor Hugo
    Musée Rodin
    L'Orangerie
    Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (again)
    Musée de Cluny
    Musée de la vie romantique
    Espace Krajcberg

  • Outside of Paris:
    Giverny
    A weekend trip with my mom
    The South of France
    Bois de Boulogne
    Bois de Vincennes
    Take a day trip to one other French city outside of Paris
    Brussels

  • Look at the gare Saint-Lazare
  • Look at the gare de l'Est
  • Go in Notre-Dame
  • Find Guy de Maupassant's tomb at the Cemetery Montparnasse
  • Return to see the auditorium of the Opera

  • Explore:
    Parc Montsouris
    Cemetery Montmartre

This list is a "work in progress," and I'll be returning to add things or cross things out as I do them!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I would be totally down for wine drinking and the Rapa Nui exhibit. Would you want to go to Rapa Nui sometime this weekend?