Past Couple of Days

Well, Sunday was a marvelous day of doing nothing. The only exciting things that happened all day were 1) Wolfie and I coordinated our outfits and 2) France beat Iceland in soccer.

Godfather-Godchild outfits FTW!

Feather serenades Wolfie on the guitar.

Yesterday was a little more exciting. I had class and after class I hung out with classmates for a while. Then I went to Le Sonar(t) to see Feather's acting students perform "Supernatural Talents" - an excerpt from the play Same Crime, Same Place by Anne Graham. The play was fun and my drink was good so I was happy.

Outside of the bar.

Feather announcing the show.

Show in progress.

Final bow.

Inside the bar.

I was in a good mood but concentrating on taking the photograph.

They had cute stools.

See? Cute.

Feather with her flowers.

Today all I've done so far is go to class. My class has an optional tour of Monmartre today but I think I'm going to opt out since I've been there before and I was basically there yesterday. Maybe I'll try and talk Feather and Dolphin into going with me later this week or early next week so we can check out the fabric district at the foot of Monmartre.

Lost and Theater!

Today I managed to get myself lost in Paris. But hey! At least it was pretty! I walked and walked and walked some more. Here are the photos I took on my long and aimless walk, which involved the Parc de Bercy and Bercy Village:

Sidewalk.

Monster Pole.

Graffiti.

Graffiti.

Graffiti.

Me in front of a hot pink fountain.

Neat buildings.

Me on a bridge.

Boats on the Seine.

Me in front of the Seine.

Cool statues.

Rose garden.

Red rose.

White roses.

Roses against the sky.

Me in the rose garden.

Perspective.

Pretty hill.

Willows.

Lake with mini Eiffel Tower.

Bercy Village Entrance.

Inside.

Bercy Village Street.

Neat old building.

Graffiti.

More graffiti.

Tonight I'm going to a play by directed my new friend/Wolfie's other godfather called "un songe d'une nuit d'été" and you can see the link here.

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Edit: Ok. Things did not go as planned. But! I did hang out with Feather, the other godfather, and the godmother/minister of Feather's church.

The Godparents!

Me and Feather. I don't know why I'm holding my head weirdly in this photo.

Traveling Day

I'm posting this because I wanted to tell you about the play I just saw called I Was Most Alive With You by the Huntington Theatre Company. Because clearly what I should do when I'm about to get on a plane is go and see a play, right? Right.

Sign says "Huntington Theatre Company: I Was Most Alive With You" with hands signing. 

The play is structured after the book of Job, it stars deaf actor Russell Harvard as a deaf, gay, sober ASL teacher, and it opens with a flashback to the previous year's Thanksgiving dinner when Harvard's character Knox introduces his partner to the family. The story line was really good, the actors were amazing, and setup of the play was really cool. There were seven actors and each of them had a shadow interpreter who translated ASL into spoken English and vice versa as the play was happening. Why don't more plays do this? It'd be a great way to make theater more accessible to deaf people. Universal design? Yes please!

Scene from the play. 

Anyway, by the time you read this I will be in an airplane on my way to France. Woo! Six hours in the sky! I will leave you with this France-themed scene from Salad Fingers...

Salad Fingers wearing a beret and standing outside by a tree saying "I'm going to find France."