Sarah celebrates Valentine's day!

Joyeuse Saint-Valentin!  Right now, I'm celebrating Valentine's day with my roommate Natalia!  We made a lovely Valentine's Day dinner of quinoa salad (my contribution) and Chinese food (Tal's contribution)... AMAZING.  We're sitting at our dining room table eating, procrastinating instead of doing the ton of homework that we have.

Earlier today after class, we had an awesome picnic with some of the girls at Sciences Po at a cute little park on the Right Bank, not far from our school.  We brought wine, cheese, baguette, chocolate and macarons and sat on a park bench for a couple hours and chatted.  It was the greatest!  On our way to and from the park, we spotted French couples going Valentine's day shopping, buying roses or chocolates - after all, Paris is supposed to be the romantic city!

YES - that is an Eiffel Tower lollipop.  The French are geniuses.

In other news, last weekend I spent the whole time touring around with two friends of my friend Raph, Carol-Anne and Marie-Michelle, who both are on exchange from Ottawa U.  Carol-Anne came up from Lyon where she's on exchange, and Marie-Michelle came up from Vienna.  We had an awesome weekend being tourists, and we hit up the Hotel de Ville, Notre-Dame, my favourite bookstore Shakepeare and Company, Saint-Germain-des-Pres, les Invalides, the Eiffel Tower, the Arc the Triomphe and the Champs-Elysees.  My feet were about to fall off from so much walking!  It was worth it though, because otherwise I'll get to wrapped up in school and forget to look around the city!  Another problem is, there's just so much to do in Paris, we didn't even cover everything in a weekend.  Luckily, my friend Ashley is coming to visit next week from Birmingham so hopefully I'll get to go around everywhere with her!  So far we're planning a trip to Versailles, and maybe even to EuroDisney if we have time!

Marie-Michelle, Me, Carole-Anne and Raph in front of the Eiffel Tower all lit up!

I also booked my flight to London on the weekend of March 11-13 for me and Ash to celebrate turning 21 in Europe!  We're going to get a hostel, stay Friday-Sunday, go see Legally Blonde the Musical, and hopefully go to Hampton Court, the palace of Henry VIII!  I can't wait!