The List :: La Liste

One of my friends gave me a list of things to do in France, full of...allusions (?) ( words in bold are me ):

1. burn a food item of choice in offering to Aphrodite for entering her city (Paris is the city of Love)
2. find Beauxbatons
3. eat ratatouille
4. befriend a rat
5. go to a library and borrow a blue book
6. read this book in a busy street
7. sing about how "there must be more to this 'provincial' life"
8. go to notre dame
9. give $$$ to a street performer
10. find a castle
11. put a rose in a glass case and pretend it's magical
12. meet a French chef
13. talk to a random person w/ a really bad French accent
14. dance with silverware
15. eat escargo
16. wear a french hat and mustache all day
17. go to either an opera or ballet performance
18. save a cat..an aristocat
19. find a Fleur Delacour look-alike
20. make a friend out of wood
21. go to the Paris railway of Hugo
22. go to the movies
23. search for a foreign satyr
24. go up to someone and exclaim "He's back.  Voldemort is back!"
25. eat lots & lots & lots of bread!
26. find a pastry masterpiece worthy of Peeta's work
27. be as American as possible for a day
28. eat French vers. of American food
29. Do an interpretive dance routine about France to one of the songs on the CD
30. Sing Les Poissons when you see Fish
31. Find the reincarnation of the Phantom of the Opera
32. Visit the Weasleys.  They should be there to visit Fleurs family (or a weasly look-alike)
33. cook something...anything French
34. Bring someone home and sing Be our guest in French to them
35. ride a bicycle around town
36. visit the louvre
37. have a masquerade ball of some sort
38. look for other avian mutants to recruit for your save the world coalation
39. Take a picture of white, black, and orange kittens
40. see an owl
41. find saffron.  it's in the kitchen!
42. help someone who is under a curse.  Maybe a beast of some sort.
43. Solve a mystery.  Sherlock is busy in London
44. go to a graveyard and find a hideout for runaways
45. find the lost princess of Russia
46. eat some FRENCH fries
47. prick your finger
48. go rowing in a river, a lake, a sewer?
49. read a cookbook written by a fat happy man
50. GO ICE SKATING
51. visit the bastille
52. go to the palace of versaille and recite all you know about France's history
53. knit something
54. drink a wine-like substance
55. look at the Parisian skyline
56. ride a train somewhere
57. buy flowers from a vendor
58. hear the bells of notre dame 
59. Go to France's disney world
60. Go to Arc de Triomphe and go through the wall It may be the French way to platform 9 3/4...maybe not
61. climb up the stairs to the eiffel tower >:)
62. go to a chateau and scare the marquis' ghost
63. use a love potion on someone
64. meet the man of your dreammms (and sing I know you.  I know you from once upon a dreammm)
65. Take pictures of Christmas in France
66. read the little Prince in French (like in Eloise....did you ever watch that?)
67. oh.  don't forget to give a toast to Dionysus.  Much of his domain lies in France
68. find someone as short as Napoleon supposedly was
69. ride a hot air balloon
70. chase some birds...but not doves.  Aphrodite will get angry
71. Yell Vive le France ( I have no idea how to spell that...)
72. meet a French food critique
73. Watch the Quidditch world cup.  Lucky for you, it's in France this year
74. eat French desserts till you EXPLODE!!!
75. Find talking Furniture
76. discover giants in the country side
77. run around on valentines' day and be eros for a day
78. sing the 12 days of christmas in French on December 18th at 8:03 AM
79. Pray that the world does not end December 21st 2012 b/c you will never return to the USA then
80. wear a color changing dress like Aurora on your BIRTHDAY!
81. Tell someone you are a merweregoople eco-friendly popstar activist
82. bend an element of choice (because you are the Avatar!)
83. walk and hitchhike till you get to Paris
84. make friends by
1. being open
2. look interested
3. smile
4. look them in the eye
5. say HI I'M AIMEE. BE MY FRIEND
85. beatbox in public and say thats what americans do when they're excited
86. get amazing Christmas presents for your host family (& secretly put *insert deathly hallows symbol* on the gifts to see if they're HP fans)
87. fight off wolves for someone you don't really like
88. dress up like you're from Beauxbatons 1 day (blue.blue.blue.blue.blue)
89. sing the French national anthem and wave a HUGE flag on a french holiday
90. plank somewhere in France.  Planking while landsharking would be even better
91. go to a bar and sing about how Gaston is the best
92. hide a pet animal under your hat
93. buy a magnificent wonderful gift for *insert name of friend who made this ridiculously long list :) * and her awesomeness on January 4 when she becomes of age in the wizarding world and loses the trace on her...JK...ROWLING!
94. use a corny pick up line
95. sell your pot :P note: I am not a drug dealer, I just like throwing clay on the wheel
96. buy at least 3 new clothes garments
97. say Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death when you see a guillotine
98. Take pictures of people with a certain characteristic of choice (example: w/beards, w/ pink hair, w/ dogs) and collect these photos like Lilo from Lilo&Stitch does
99. create something
100. learn a magic trick
101. make a friend who loves to read
102. fix something& find it's missing parts
103. make an authority figure angry
104. pick a lock 99-104: these are Hugo related but not very blatantly so...
105. go to French McDonalds and document your experience
106. make up American phrases, pretend they are real, and coin them in France
107. run around in the Parisian rain!
108. be super Chinese for a day
109. watch a French preschool TV show
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120. have a cheese eating fest. I hear France has nice cheese
121. find the house of Madeline; an old house in Paris, covered in vines, lived 12 little girls in 2 straight lines
122. spend a day drawing all day :: ride a motor cycle she repeated 122 ahaha
123. find a circumstance to use the phrase "Draw me like 1 of your French girls, Jack"
124. discover a unicorn or pegasus.  They're probably from Beauxbatons and got lost
125. spit from the top of the eiffel tower >:)
126. spread the news of the wonderful qualities of the undershirt
127. find a food product you can only find in France
128. see if you're allowed to use your permit in France and if not, pretend you are driving an invisible car and be cool
129. take pictures w/ 8 random people in poses that relate to Disney movies
130. go trick or treating
131. find an entrance to Deadalus's labyrinth when it was in France
132. find a whomping willow and see if it knows the one at Hogwarts
133. befriend the frenchest person you see
134. speak really bad French with someone
135. FIND A FROYO SHOP
136. eat french vers. of chinese food too (like #28)
137. listen to the CD of French music all day one day and do a yoga pose everytime you hear an accordian
138. have an adventure....wow that's corney...instead...on your last week there, sing a disney song everytime someone says America....yeah my creativity momentarily ran out...

so I copied that really quickly from what she gave me.