This post is about the Parisian routine…The routine that I don’t have due to the simple fact that no day here is like the other, and that is not only because I am constantly trying to discover something new in the city, but because of my rather strange class schedule. I typically have one class on Tuesday from 2:45 to 4:45, then two classes on Thursday with the last starting at 7pm which means that I spend the majority of the day at Sciences Po campus, and Friday is my total study day when I spend the entire day from 10:15 am until the end of my last class at 7 pm at Sciences Po. As I have wrote previously, the workload that I have at Sciences Po is pretty sporadic, some weeks, I have to devote the majority of my weekend, as well as Monday and Wednesday, that I typically have off, studying…Others, I can allow myself to devote all four of my free days to sightseeing.
It feels like the entire city of Paris runs on a rather late schedule. I, for example, don’t typically have dinner before 10pm and that seems to be a perfectly normal thing. Moreover, every Parisian museum is open until 10pm at least one day per week (if you were following my GEOInsta takeover, I was taking all the followers on a little walk to Musee D’Orsay, which on Thursdays stays open until 10 pm.), which is a wonderful news for the night owls like me. My favorite Parisian museum of modern art, Tokyo Palace, is typically open until 12 am and on certain nights until 1 am (the real night at the museum). I am sure, however, that the early birds can fit perfectly well into the Parisian life-style as well, they are lucky lucky to be able to pick up still hot freshly baked bread from the nearest boulangerie, and then be on time for the happy hours at the cute Parisian cafes.
I think it is impossible to live a routine life in Paris. City with such a reach cultural life and of endless cafe talks with a cup of coffee. And it would be particularly impossible for a 21 year old who is spending her exchange semester in such a wonderful city.
