Today in class we were supposed to watch Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, but unfortunately the DVD was lost. Aliko tried to show us another film, but it didn't have subtitles and we gave up.
So after lunch we headed to Père Lachaise, a very famous cemetery. The most visited graves are that of Jim Morrison, Chopin, Edith Piaf, and Oscar Wilde, respectively.
I don't have a problem with going to cemeteries, but I must admit that hearing children laughing and screaming at recess at a nearby school while walking past the Holocaust memorial was a little bit creepy.
Jim Morrison's grave. They used to have a statue of his head there, but too many people were climbing in and touching it, so it was removed.
As I stood at Chopin's grave I was trying to run through a few measures of each of my favorite piano solos of his in my head. I suddenly remembered one I was enamored with in high school, Polonaise Op. 26 no. 1 in C# minor, and decided to make it one of my summer music projects. I more or less like this rendition.
I was taken aback to be next to such greatness.
Edith Piaf's grave. On the other side it lists Marcel Cerdan, her lover who tragically died in a plane crash...
...and this quote. :)
Oscar Wilde's grave...
...covered in kisses!
In between seeing all these graves, two awesome things happened.
#1
Kitty was very shy at first - she kept running away when people tried to pet her. Then everyone in the group gave up but me, and I coaxed her and eventually got to pet her. AND THEN SHE CRAWLED INTO A TOMB AND DISAPPEARED. Zach got a video of it; it was pretty creepy. But I enjoyed our time together.
#2
This kitty was actually sleeping IN a grave, next to Edith Piaf's. At first everyone was petting him, until someone said that his fur was all matted and he seemed very sick. So everyone said "EW" and left, except for a few other people and me. One girl, Lauren, started feeding him pieces of crossiant with butter, and he immediately perked right up! Faker punk kitty.
Walking total: 7.3 miles.
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