Today was probably the best weekend I had so far. My good buddy Mohamed has come out and met up with me. He rang me up at midday (as promised) and told me that although Claude would not be able to join us tonight, he would be able to join me for the evening. I was so delighted as I was expecting that he would say no. And it took us 5 minutes to decide where to meet (as I don’t know Paris that well). I n the end, we decided to meet up at Chatelet FNAC.
We then took a walk to Saint Michel and in the end, we agreed to have Italian food. At first he told me that’s up to me and I replied him that I have been deciding where to go for food for the past don’t know how many nights, I would not decide tonight. And there you go, we had Italian food. The meal I would say was nothing fantastic at all but hey, I have a company.
And surprisingly, he didn’t want to go back home immediately after the meal and he even suggested going for a show. Wow! And this time I chose to watch Al Pacino’s “Looking for Richard”. (I asked Mohamed after we have been seated, “When was the last time you watched a movie.” He replied, “5 years ago”.)
I am a big fan of Al Pacino so to me, the show was great. You could really sit down for 2 hours simply appreciating his acting. Shakespeare’s work may somehow sound boring, but not this one. One may think that it is a documentary more than a film. I agree that there is certainly some element of documentary but without doing so, I don’t think more than 90% of the audience will enjoy it. The switch between the play and real life dialogue was fantastic. Everything at the right moment.
So what have I done today? Well, bought some fruit and actually seriously hunting (shopping) for a scarf and a pair of gloves and couldn’t find anyone I like. Maybe next weekend.