I made this video of Au Lapin Agile Cabaret - or, as it’s called, “The Agile Rabbit” in English on the second day of my 4 days in Paris last week. There’s also footage of some activities around Paris earlier in the day.
Unfortunately, I had not saved the original files off my video camera - just those that were prepared for YouTube (I’m kinda new at serious video blogging) - as a result the quality of this series of clips and the image of “The Snap” video camera is present when I’d rather it not be. Â
I think what happened at Au Lapin Agile was pretty interesting - but I was asked to stop filming, and I did (but not before one of the singers was really making fun of me, in French); since I don’t know French - I guess it did not upset me - but you can see some of that in the clip, near the end.
Here’s my coverage of The Louvre and a couple of other sights around Paris on Friday, June 1st, 2007.
The rest of my painting buddies went ahead of me over to the Louvre and I could not locate them till lunchtime - so I stumbled around. Later we went to other locations in Paris. I’ll have some other footage from that Friday and the day before, Thursday, May 31st, later.
Exhausted, but I’m here in Paris. Here’s how I got to Paris -
I think the whole experience of going to Paris, and what it took for me to set up this trip, is very emotional to me, very meaningful. I suppose, there’s nothing that different here than anyone’s Jet Trip, but to me it had some additional meanings - since I had some many obstacles to overcome in order to set up the trip in the first place.
Since I could only stay for half of the total trip - the rest of the group is in Aix-en-Provence, happily painting right now, until June 17th, while I had to leave on June 7th, I reconciled that I had done the best trip I could given my circumstances, at this point of my life.
Was it the ideal trip? Was it the best trip it could have been? It would have been better for me even if I could have stayed till today (another 2 and a half days) but I could not, in all honesty, do that as there were many pulls requiring me to come back when I did.
Even so, I asked myself, as I flew back - crying -deep tears, if there could have been a way to stay longer and I just did not think it through enough, or plan it well enough.
