Aix en Provence

Today I went to Aix en Provence. It was a cool city to go to and get away from Lacoste for a little while. Lacoste isn’t bad but is good to get away from every once in a while. I had two cameras and my tripod. I was ready to capture every event possible. The first thing we did was walk around to try to find a café that we all agreed on. That took quit a while but I didn’t mind. It was relaxing and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I did what is often called people stalking. But I like to call it people capturing. Because the way I do it is, I make it obvious and don’t try to hide around corners. It was a little different though because I started to noticed that the French don’t like their picture to be taken. The worst is the people asking for money and if you take their picture they ask you for money. It hadn’t happened to me because I just didn’t take their picture but really wanted to. One thing I saw that was very interesting was a woman and her baby siting out side of a church begging for money. It was probably the sadist thing I saw all day. The coolest thing was the inside of the church. There was actually a service going on in it. It was interesting observing what they did in this church. It was unlike anything I had ever scene but yet so peaceful at the same time. After these two moments I continued on to find my the other part of the group. We didn’t find them but we found Christoph and we had him guide us to where we were going next. It was funny because we went in a circle. Then he told us where the buses were instead of the street we would walk on. It was very kind of him to take us in to a circle. When we got on the bus to go find this famous painter and his studio. It was so horrible for me because I had all of this stuff with me. When I was getting my change my key fell on the floor. I set my coffee down and then grabbed it then walked to my seat. Well while I was walking to my seat he started to move so I bumped into the seat and coffee splashed all over this poor little girl. I gave my coffee to Sarah and then finally was able sit down. Then after a long bus ride we ended up passing our stop and at the last bus stop the bus driver kept opening and closing the bus doors because it was the last stop. Well after he noticed we were clueless Americans he drove us to the final station and gave us tickets so that we could ride on whatever bus to get back which was very nice. So we finally made it and then it was time to leave back to Lacoste.