girls girls girls. three girls and a slumber party – they stayed up late talking and talking, with s and f getting to know each other.
today, jj had to study, so p and i brought f back to her apt. we walked along the river and then through the 5th arrondissement, to rue mouffetard. (we thought of you, joel – being in your old neighborhood, walking by your apt). i always thought of rue mouffetard as much too touristy, but today, i saw it as a very nice and charming pedestrian road. it wasn’t too packed. we stopped at a vietnamese shop, and i had a vietnamese sandwich. i love these. i had learned about them while living in san francisco. this sandwich was one result of having the french in vietnam. it is french bread with butter and then stuffed with a meat and fresh salad vegetables and an asian dressing of rice vinegar, oil and sugar. it is fresh and delicious.
afterwards, we went home to prepare for a cocktail we were hosting. i referred to it as the “neighbors cocktail”. i wanted to have a social get together where we got to know better some parents from the school who lived nearby. when i had gone away in february, p had been mildly sick. there was no one we could think of that he could call if it took a turn for the worse and he needed some help. so i realized that we (and others) needed to have a network. all these parents are also either ex-pats or recently returned french people. we are all sort of on our own. we had 12 people altogether and it was very nice. we drank several bottles of champagne that people brought. we said we must get together again.
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