Une femme dans la gare.
Check out the sweet graffiti etching on the window.
Paris is beautiful. I arrived at Charles De Gaulle with Austin, another student on my flight, around 8:30a.m. or 2:30a.m. Indiana time. I am jet-lagged to near delusion. On the plane, I read a book called Culture Shock in France by Sally Adamson Taylor. I learned not to smile for no reason, eat salad with my right hand or speak to groups of vagrant children. It was an interesting read..
Upon arrival, we exchanged our money for a 60% rate (yikes!) and then took the RER (suburban train system) to a nearby Metro stop. From there we walked to the Citadines, our hotel-aparment complex. Quaint old houses, strange architecture and miles of graffitied concrete were my first impressions of Paris.
Lugging my huge suitcase up stairs in the Metro station and down narrow city sidewalks for 12 or so blocks was torture, but I made it! Even though I thought I packed light for a six week trip, I would pack way lighter next time.
In Montparnasse, Maggie and I share a small room with a trundle bed and desk, and seperate rooms for the kitchenette, toilet and bath. We have free internet, cable, continental breakfast, and this amazing 24-hour espresso machine. French coffee is stronger than any coffee I have ever tasted.
________________Our room.
We spent the day touring the area and the IES Center where we will take photography and art history classes and received free Metro passes through the school. The center is within walking distance, and is also on a bus route with a stop directly across the street.
I ate earlier with all the ladies at a local place called "Les Artistes". The food was decently priced and very gourmet.
This is my roommate, Maggie, trying (and failing) to get her computer to read her microphone so she could use Skype. We are both without it, and so are forced to use the cellphones that IES require we have for local calls. Now we will have to get international cards and make calls with those.
More tomorrow when I'm not so dead tired.
1 comments:
Oh, man I'm so ridiculously excited for you! and I miss you already! Tell Maggie I said what's up and tell yourself I said take more pictures!
also, I want to give you an assignment of getting as close to a pigeon as possible. Just don't touch it. They're fearless and it's fucking nuts.
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