Sitting on the Seine

Bonjour!
Happy Friday- we made it through our first week! Its so exciting to have a weekend with no set plans and to rest up a little bit after all of the activities :) After a long week a couple of us decided to go and shop around town, I got a new pair of shoes and some clothes! We explored the Champs de Lysees and popped into some stores. It was cool to see the styles here since they really are so different than the ones at home. I think in a good way at least. Whilst going around town, I noticed how many different auditory methods I used within the day. One of which being the different auditory streams used at once when in highly stimulating environments.
Later in the day, we went and got all glommed to go sit on the Bateux-Mouche, and have a glass of wine. It was so charming and beautiful outside and it was really fun to sit with the girls and just feel like a local. This is when I noticed the dialing in of some conversations vs others, like we discussed in class. It is so crazy when you think about it how the mouth you’re watching and dialing in on listening to makes it so hard to keep in touch with everything else auditorily stimulating around you. Once paying attention to this- it changes everything. This made me realize how much of hearing is what your mind and ear chooses to listen to even over what you want to be hearing! We stayed out for a while, chatting on the seine. Eventually we walked our way home, and ultimately had such a wonderful evening.Читать далее