My deepest apologies for not posting for a couple weeks. After finals my life became a whirlwind of working and packing for my trip to Paris. We arrived this morning and it has just been amazing!
The plane ride was long and I hardly slept because every time I dozed off a baby two rows up would start crying. The food was pretty good, though, and they came through with drinks a quite a few times so I remained pretty hydrated. Needless to say, sleep or not the trip was pretty good.
At first my roommate and I both felt very shy and awkward because we are staying with a local family so they are Parisians and we are so obviously American. After J and I got over the awkwardness we finally unpacked and hung out with our host mom (who is incroyble by the way!). She welcomed us into her home with espresso and pastries and has the cutest room set up for us. She is an artist so the rooms are all painted and decorated in fun ways and our room is just too cool with clouds on a bit of the ceiling and one wall and the door is all painted and we have bunk beds! I want my future room and apartment to look like this. She invited us to an exposition she had at her studio, but we decided we would walk to the Eiffel Tower and explore the area a bit. We happen to live in the same arrondissement as it so we took the trek and it was awesome! The tower is HUGE and there were so many different people there: tourists, locals, etc. On our walk to the Eiffel Tower we came across a 24.7 pharmacie and popped in on our way home and I got Bioderma!!! Review to come.
All of the French are so nicely dressed, but they all wear different styles. Some were wearing dresses or jeans or skirts and everyone wore big sunglasses, so heads up if you're headed to Paris, sunglasses are a must. Speaking of clothes I have realized I brought too many pairs of shorts and should have purchased more jeans instead. It is far chillier than I first expected. I will probably be mailing many of my shorts home and purchasing an extra pair of jeans. Oh well live and learn.
Back to my host mom: she is so very nice and has been feeding us so much food. All of the meals she has fed us are very simple meals with fresh ingredients -- things I could easily make once we get home.
I am off to read for my class tomorrow and go to sleep because I still haven't slept yet aside from falling asleep while writing this earlier. Bonne Nuit!
