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So much has happened in the past couple of days in Paris! I could write pages and pages (which I did, in my own private diary!) but here's a summary of it all:
Most of my meals have been either crepes or sandwiches - a very simple sandwich... just a baguette, cheese, and ham!
There's so much bread, cheese, wine, and chocolate here - it makes me happy, but sometimes when I see it it makes me feel sick. Too much of the same stuff.
My French skills are minimal. It's quite sad.
Most French people are actually very nice and helpful when I ask for help in directions. Most of the people I've asked for help were able to answer me in English. It's definitely not an easy thing to go around Paris without knowing any French though.
I noticed last night when we went clubbing that it's very open here - people are very sensual and expressive.
In Paris, you walk a LOT. No wonder all the French people are so skinny, eh? Actually, maybe it's more like - In Paris, you walk a LOT when you're lost and can't find the bus stop and catch the train going the wrong way.
The architecture is beautiful here. Nothing surprising, right? :o)
Thank goodness that smoking is forbidden in restaurants back home... because even though I believe the law for forbidding smoking in restaurants was put into law this year, it's not being enforced by 70% of restaurants naturally. It's not fun having smoke in your eyes and all around you while you're eating.
I witnesses some French people drinking at bars and everyone was drinking wine with their food at 2pm in the restaurant, amazing.
My second day of classes we had a wine and cheese tasting class. How come we don't do fun stuff like that at the UofC campus? :) We tried four different kinds of wine, and of course I turned super-red.
There are quite a lot of beautiful looking guys here. Maybe the fact that they dress so well everyday increases their hotness factor? I love how fashionable and dressed up Parisians are... quite different from what I'm accustomed to in the U.S. - or maybe it's just at UofC. :P
Most of my meals have been either crepes or sandwiches - a very simple sandwich... just a baguette, cheese, and ham!
There's so much bread, cheese, wine, and chocolate here - it makes me happy, but sometimes when I see it it makes me feel sick. Too much of the same stuff.
My French skills are minimal. It's quite sad.
Most French people are actually very nice and helpful when I ask for help in directions. Most of the people I've asked for help were able to answer me in English. It's definitely not an easy thing to go around Paris without knowing any French though.
I noticed last night when we went clubbing that it's very open here - people are very sensual and expressive.
In Paris, you walk a LOT. No wonder all the French people are so skinny, eh? Actually, maybe it's more like - In Paris, you walk a LOT when you're lost and can't find the bus stop and catch the train going the wrong way.
The architecture is beautiful here. Nothing surprising, right? :o)
Thank goodness that smoking is forbidden in restaurants back home... because even though I believe the law for forbidding smoking in restaurants was put into law this year, it's not being enforced by 70% of restaurants naturally. It's not fun having smoke in your eyes and all around you while you're eating.
I witnesses some French people drinking at bars and everyone was drinking wine with their food at 2pm in the restaurant, amazing.
My second day of classes we had a wine and cheese tasting class. How come we don't do fun stuff like that at the UofC campus? :) We tried four different kinds of wine, and of course I turned super-red.
There are quite a lot of beautiful looking guys here. Maybe the fact that they dress so well everyday increases their hotness factor? I love how fashionable and dressed up Parisians are... quite different from what I'm accustomed to in the U.S. - or maybe it's just at UofC. :P