Wine Class

Soooooo I am too exhausted for my own good.... I still haven't figured out if it's the fact that I am running up and down metro stairs all day long of if it's the stress of not doing everything that I want to do. Maybe both.... who knows?

The fact is I am constantly tired yet I am never resting. If I am out for some reason and someone proposes something else to do, I'll do it. Without thinking twice. It is not my classes... they are not very demanding, at least for now. It's just this fact that I am staying only three months in Paris and have so, so much to do!

The wine class well, I started yesterday. It seemed quite entertaining to me... well not the beginning, in which our American teacher discussed the chemical properties of the grape, but the later part... in which we actually did tasting! Why am I in this class? No really, the teacher asked me as I clumsily walked in the door ten minutes late. My answer?

"I dont know anything about wine!" and it's true. Please praise me for my honesty because I can say that I have been in Paris for more than a month now, have drunk enough wine, but absolutely never know what I am drinking or how to choose it. It is more of a random luck thing, if the wine turns up to be decent or disgusting.

So we tried two white wines and two red. I felt somehow awkward, because everyone was helping to describe the taste of this wine (which of course you have to sip in a fish-like manner and then spit out in a cow-like one) as fruity, ashy, some people felt the cherries, the raspberries, the cinnamon, the spices, all of this in... fermented grape! Now I knew what they meant when they said acidic, or dry, strong and fruity... but the finding of other fruits in this one seems like a stretch to me. It was here when I simply swallowed the wine.

But no... I spat enough out to assure I wouldn't be drunk in class! It was quite fantastic and then four of us decided to go have dinner close by, in front of a magnificent church which we couldn't quite define what architectural period it had been built on, (Trying to apply my architectural history of Paris class-skills people), to try our new wine tasking skills.

Fun.

Tonight, Fables de La Fontaine at the Comedie Francaise.... I'll let you know how that goes.

Au revoir mes amis... Paris est vraiment fantastique!!!!!!!