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Monday, May 30, 2005


Champs Elysees is pronounced Sean Se Lei Say Posted by Hello


i am so much taller than the Eiffel Tower (LOL) Posted by Hello


Eiffel Tower Posted by Hello


SY and I  Posted by Hello


lourve museum (where mona lisa is) Posted by Hello

Paris

Truthfully, the city tour was horrible! There wasn’t much photo stops so didn’t get really good pictures of Paris (luckily there was an Eiffel Tower photo stop) but and we also stopped by the Fragonard Perfumery to purchase some scents. The scents were pretty strong so I wasn’t really interested. Later the tour bus stopped by the River Seine which some of the members went cruising around. While they were cruising, I bought 2 beautiful paintings of Paris for €28($58) which I am going put one of it in my room. Last stop for the day was SHOPPING at Galleria Lafayette. Things were pretty expensive there, almost one for one but I managed to grab a cheap Zara tank top for just €4 ($8+). That was all for the day now time for some history lesson.

Remember Joan of Arc and Napoleon Bonaparte? They were the pride and joy of France so let me tell you a brief story of them.

During a battle against the British, the French government called for all the men in the country to fight in the war. Joan’s father being old and frail was sure to have a hard time in the army therefore Joan decided to take over his place. She dressed up as a man and went to serve the French army. One day, she was found out by the other soldiers that she was a girl and that made them realized that if a girl can fight so well in battle, so can we thus the French soldiers were highly motivated by this and fought harder.

When the British found out about this, they decided to capture her and humiliate her to dampen the spirits of the French army and they killed her in front of the French army before the battle. (Well, the tour guide ended the story here so I have no idea what happened after that.)

There was once a great warrior called Napoleon who fought very hard in battle because he knew that if he wanted to marry his sweet-heart, he would have to survive all the battles. Soon, he became a great general, proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon and he married his sweet-heart who was his cousin Josephine.

However, she did not bore him any sons so he married another woman who was an Austrian. Later, the Austrian wife gave birth to a son and Napoleon decided to send him to Austria and keep this a secret as he was afraid that the British will kill his only son. Unfortunately, the story leaked out and Napoleon’s son who was 17 years old at that time was killed.

Afterwards, in the great battle of Waterloo, General Nelson led the British army against the French and they managed to capture Napoleon. The British put him in exile in St Helena and later announced that he had died of TB.

P.S i just receive news from my friend,thim ,that the architest jumped to his death because the windows of both side was improportionate. Sorry for the inaccurate info!


 
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