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Wow, I am really bad at this blogging thing. I do believe it's been a month since I last posted here. Oops...let's play catch up (the title of this post, for non-Francophones)!

The past few weeks have involved lots of visitors! And museums...lots of museums.

 The first weekend of visitors included Noelle's friend, who is studying in London, and her two friends. With them we went on our first outside-of-class exploration of the Louvre...making sure to take some time for the ultimate tourist pictures. Complete necessity. Next up (in the same weekend) was Maura from Lehigh! It was really awesome to see someone from home and be able to show her around my new city. Hopefully I'll be able to visit her in Dublin before we leave!

Two weeks later, my bestest and oldest friend from home made the trip up from Aix-en-Provence in southern France (excuse the selfie shot)! This was a great weekend, seeing as Kayla and I have been talking about studying abroad in France together since middle school. We didn't end up in the same city, but it was pretty surreal to actually hang out in France after talking about it for so long!

Then, just as Kayla was leaving for Normandy, my boyfriend Jake arrived, all the way from Arizona/California! Touristy activities ensued, including more selfies because of my incurable fear someone will run away with my camera if I ask a stranger to take a picture. Anyways. There was also more Louvre-ing (yes, it is in fact a verb) involved, and much entertainment at the headless statues. Another fantastic weekend!

Coming up is midterms (blech), more visitors from Lehigh (yay!), and hopefully some travel plans! I'm only now starting to consider travel elsewhere - Paris is such a giant and historical city, I don't think I could ever run out of things to explore! I'll leave you with an assortment of pictures from the past few weeks!

Clockwise from upper left: gorgeous Valentines' Day flowers from Jake; a Saturday spent exploring Montmartre; gulping down the best hot chocolate in the world; Sacre-Coeur from the bottom of the hill; the insane view from the top; our default no-cooking-required dinner of cheese, prosciutto, avocado, and bread (yum); what I see when I open my bedroom windows (life is good); street artist near the Louvre