Early Tuesday Morning (June 7th)
We left the hostel in Prague at 4:00 am. Thats EARLY! We weren't able to get to bed until almost 1:00 am, and got up early to pack. We caught our plane to Paris, got to the train station, figured out the trains and found our hostel. We checked in and we definitely did not waste any time sleeping. We got dressed, freshened up, and haeded out to explore Paris.
Our first stop was to get some lunch, and we stopped to try Crepes at a cafe. All of the cafes I have visisted in Italy and France are really airy and open, and there are hardly ever closed doors. This one had a glass front, with glass windows and door all intertwined.
We sat down and ordered and I realized I left something at the hostel. I knew our food would be a few minutes... so I decided to walk the block back and get it (cannot even remember what it was right now)
Now, for those who have known me for years may recall back in high school when I had an accident with the door at my house and cut a huge gash in my eyebrow and gave myself a black eyes.
This incident may top that.
I got up from the table, and turned towards the entrance. I walk really fast in general, and who knows if it was because I was distracted and looking out the windows on the other side or because I slept two hours, but I turned to walk out the "exit" which I think I thought was just an open doorway, and I walked NOSE first into a thick GLASS door. I stumbled back, stunned, looked all around (it made a huge noise and I felt everyone was staring) and since I was so embarassed I found the handle, opened the door, and trotted out, holding my face/nose.
I think Matt definitely heard the thud and saw me, but since I opened the door and kept going he assumed I was fine (I guess)
I walked out, completely dizzy, disoriented, crying, and holding my face. I walked straight to cross the street to the hostel and some women looked up and started yelling at me in french and ran and grabbed me. I looked down and there was blood everywhere, all over my hands, this women and another women were yelling at me and holding onto me, trying to instruct me to hold my head back, etc. of course I did not understand a thing they were saying. Everything is a blur; next thing I know they are walking me to the pharamcy (two stores down...) they took me in there and the pharmacist came around and started looking at me and they were all talking really fast in french, they way they were all acting I thought for sure my nose was completely broken or something. I was so freaked out, was bawling, disoriented, dizzy, there was blood everywhere- my nose, face, hands, it had gotten on my skirt.
The pharmacist gave me some foam thing to put in my nose and was trying to ask me questions, using hand motions. She sorta asked if I was punched, or if I did coke (she tried to say, but then used actions/motions) I tried to motion a door/wall and hitting it, she nodded her head. She ran and got a vial of something and told me to take it, it was a vial of tiny tiny little white pills. I didn't understand if they were to be swalloed or chewed, so she tried to communicate that. I was trying not to cry, to hold my nose. I kept trying to ask if it was broken, they didn't understand, then they did and they shrugged, like "I dont know..| They handed me a mirror and I cried, I said I didn't want to look. Finally I did and it just looked bloody and bruised. Finally a pharmacist came out who spoke some english, she said it wasn't broken. They told me to sit, so I sat and tried to calm down while it stopped bleeding.
Finally I got up to leave, I tried to ask for water or something to clean up. They gave me some wet papertowel and I went back to the hostel to change and wash my face. I felt so out of it, my head (literally) and nose were throbbing, and it was still slightly bleeding. I did NOT want to go back to the crepe place, but Matt was still there, by now wondering what was taking me so long.
I went back, told him what happened (of course he felt AWFUL) and tried to eat lunch, but I kept crying and my head really really hurt.
I decided to go back to the women at the pharamcy and see if they had any really strong pain stuff. I wrote down all the words in my little french book for "strong", "headache" etc. They gave me some sort of pills, and I paid them and took those. When I had left before they gave me more of the vials of little white pills, I asked what they were for and she said for swelling. I had not even THOUGHT of that. Was my nose going to swell to double its size??
After all this we should of gone to lie down, take a nap, but since now all of my clothes were dirty (the second thing I changed into got blood on it too) I decided we should explore Paris and do some shopping.
We shopped the main area, spending lots of time in H&M, I got a red skirt there to wear...
We walked by Notre Dame, through the Latin District, then took the metro to the Arc de Triumph, and pass the castles. We went to the Eiffel tower, got more crepes, and just strolled along the Siene.
My nose hurt most of the day but the really bad headache went away. My nose is swollen but not too noticeable. Its a little bruised.
What kind of idiot or clutz walks into a GLASS door in Paris, almost breaking their nose?
I am not sure if it tops the last time I ran into a door (back sophomore year of high school...) but it is definitely going to be something I remember for a long time.
It really sucked.
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