Paris Trip Day 2: Paris
And so our flight continued. (By the way it figures that as soon as I tried to sleep the plane decided to get terrible turbulence which scared me half to death.) Anyways, once I woke up we were almost over Iceland but unfortunately we were unable to see any because of a dense layer of clouds beneath us. So I watched another movie and I just want to say that Hoodwinked is one of the worst movies I've every seen. We passed over Ireland, but again we could see nothing but clouds and we waited for the end of this very, very LONG flight to be over. Breafast was served but it was pretty aweful (Funny tasting fruit and a microwave heated crossant), and then the pilot announced that we'd be landing soon. The clouds broke up a little and I got my very first view of France. I guess the best way to describe it is that it was sort of like a giant quilt of greens and yellow-greens, it was mostly fields and you could see a few houses and sheep, but mostly it was absolutley breathtaking. All of the houses in France seem to be white with red tiled roofs and it was very picturesque. The plane made its descent and we landed at the airport, looking at all of the different countries the other airplanes were from. It was a very long taxi because the airport was so full and we had to deboard the plane outside on a staircase. Then the airport had only sent one bus to bring us back to the terminal so we had to wait out in the cold for the bus. Finally we were picked up and brought to customs (Which actually was empty so we didn't have to wait to long for that). We gathered our luggage and join other members of the group that had already flown in and the FIAP (where I'm staying) sent a bus for us. The trip to our new home was a very interesting one and there were a few things that I notice right away. 1) Parisians are very scary drivers. The don't use turn signals, they tailgate each other like crazy, and the speed limit is 110 kilometers/hour. I thought we were going to crash several times and it was very scary. 2) The Graffi in Paris looks very similar to graffti in America except that its EVERYWHERE. 3) Parisian Architechture is very strange. It mixes the old with the new but it looks like it is eternally sutck in the 60s/70s (atleast in the suburbs). To put it bluntly, it wasn't at all what I expected it to look like and after a half an hour I was glad to reach our temporary home.
To be continued...
To be continued...