First Days

Paris is AMAZING!!!!

The flight from lax to dublin was not bad at all, the plane left exactly at 4 and it was supposed to be a 10 hour flight but it only took us 9 hours! Once we arrived in Dublin we went to have a Guinness (Irish Beer, mom). Then we hopped on the plane to paris. When we arrived in Paris it was cold but sunny, it was really pretty. We took a shuttle to a hotel near our apartment, our apartment wasn't ready until today so abroadco payed for a hotel for us.

Once we put our stuff down we decided to go on a walk...i think we arrived around 7pm. We walked around the area and decided to get something to eat. Candida and I were both a little culture-shocked and nervous at this point. So we finally sat down at this super-french restaurant and tried to order in french. He spoke back to us in english : ) After that we were pretty tired so we decided to go back to the hotel and go to sleep.


On Monday we woke up and decided to walk to the notre dame. After that we walked along the seine river and made our way to the eiffel tower. Here are some pictures:







Later that night, Candida and I went to see Morrissey at the Olympia Theatre. There were loads of people and it was funny to see french people sing Morrissey songs in english.

I just moved into my tiny apartment and we are trying to get settled in...although we just found out that we will be moving to another apartment this weekend. Apparently the director our program was horrified at the size of the apartment and demanded that we be moved to a bigger room.

This city is so beautiful, its hard to describe the feeling here. I have been trying to use my french as much as possible and I can see I have a long way to go. Its a bit intimidating but I know its only my second day and I have a long time to improve...Tomorrow is the beginning of orientation week, we will finally meet all of the other students and we have activities planned this whole week.

Much love to everyone!!!