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Truth be told, I don't remember what this journal was supposed to be about. Probably just reflecting about today. Well, right now I'm sitting in the grass in the Jardin de Luxembourg and a French woman just asked me to recline her stroller for her and I just can't believe that a) she chose to ask me and b) I understood. That was just something I was a little proud of. 

Today, we saw the Arene de Lutece and l'Eglise Ste. Etienne du Mont and the Pantheon and oh my God! All the art and all the architecture... I cannot contain my excitement! The civic/romantic spaces filled with religious/patriotic imagery is astounding. That would make for a interesting paper... classical and religious imagery in civic spaces; intersections and divergences. But I feel like that'd be hyperspecific and I don't know if I want to pigeonhole myself like that. Like, we haven't even so much as looked at modern art yet! (also, there's an astonishing lack of direct attribution both in Ste. Etienne du Mont and in the Pantheon. Color me disappointed)

Anyways, I hope there's a lot left to be learned in terms of French Art & culture because I think that's the avenue I'll be taking for my paper, since theatre and physical fine art don't really intersect all the often, as I've noticed in my studies. I mean, theatre usually reflects are, not the other way around. I hope I get to see or create theatre one day that affects the art world. That would be pretty cool.