On Saturday, I was sitting by the Medici Fountain in the Jardin Luxembourg, waiting for Sam and Michelle, when who finds me but a Goucher student who graduated last spring, and had been in the same fall semester French class as me. A couple minutes later, his friend also found us, and she had also been in the same Cinéma Maghreb class. Just so you can appreciate the unlikelihood (I'm not quite sure that's a word; my English is beginning to fail me) of the situation, Goucher has about 14oo students in total, and the French class we had together had nine students. So basically, we had a third of Flo Martin's class standing there in the Jardin Luxembourg, an ocean away from Goucher.
Second story: Tonight Natalia and I decided we needed chocolate, so we trekked over the the ever-open boulangerie on Rue de Charonne. On the way back we thought about taking the Rue des Amandiers shortcut back to the foyer, but opted to go via Boulevard de Ménilmontant instead. As we were passing a cafe, I heard someone yell "America! Goucher!" and turned to see two girls from Marseille who I had met when they came to Goucher a year and a half ago to put on a play in French. It turns out they recently moved to Paris.
Evidently I have a talent for meeting people I would never expect to run into. This happened to me when I was in Poland a few years ago as well. It's so funny how these things happen. I wonder who else I will meet here?
In other news, I began my internship at Ni Putes Ni Soumises on Monday. It is a 10-minute walk from where I live, so I am very lucky in that respect. People seem really friendly, and it sounds like I will have some choice in terms of what projects I work on, so I will get to do things that really interest me personally.
Hahaha. Oh my god. In terms of Frenchy theatre potential run-ins, at least that wasn't (the) one with major fawkward potential.
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