Daily Archives: January 29, 2011

Day 5 of 21

Still deaf in one ear.  There’s no change in my hearing.  It’s so weird.  Not one bit of change.

I got up late again.

Visited Ille Saint Louis this afternoon.  Mary said it’s where she likes to go for a stroll and contemplative time.  It was lovely.  I tried getting there without my glasses and ended up going SW when I should have been going NE.  Silly.

After I got my bearings I made it to Rue Saint Louis en I’lle without a map or my iPhone.  It was lovely.  Very small and quaint–places for lunch, a little butcher shop, a little cheese shop…

I took some pictures and even contemplated going into a little place for lunch.  But I’m not there yet.

A French boy came after me and started speaking in French.  I looked at him with what must have been alarm and he switched to English.  He said he wanted to tell me I was cute and would I like to have a coffee with him.  I laughed.  He continued on asking if I was a student.  I said I was here to be alone and write.  He said if I had a drink with him I’d write more…he was so bold as to suggest my writing would have more emotion.  I laughed some more and said ‘ok….goodbye!’ and as I walked away I tripped off the curb.  Very smooth.

How bizarre.  It seems unfathomable that people just walk up to each other and say ‘hi! i think you’re cute…wanna have coffee and talk?’ It just seems totally unsafe. Even if it were safe, I wouldn’t have gone.  He looked like the man version of Harry Potter.

Zut!