So here I am. I completed my first FULL day in Paris! My plane ride went off without a hitch, unlike most of the others from my program. I flew out of Toronto and there was absolutely no precipitation or anything. I sat alone on a window seat of the plane, so I had plenty of space to sleep. I ACTUALLY slept. Not a lot, but enough to get me through the day. Also.. when the plane took off, I felt such a surge of emotion that I started to tear up and cry a little and want to burst out laughing at the same time. I was so excited, nervous, anxious, you name it! But everything went so well! Then I met my program director in the cafe as planned and took a bus into the city to our places of residence. My foyer is pretty cool. I dig my room, even though it's a bit sparce.
Maureen, a girl from my building and I, spent the afternoon just walking around a little near our foyer. I tried French yogurt for the first time and it was GREAT.
Then the group of us that met up that day had our first dinner in Paris. It took us 10 minutes or so of wandering around to find someplace cheap and delicious sounding. We settled on some place near Luxemborg that I don't remember. I had an HUGE omlette au jambon et fromage, pomme frites et une salade. It's the best omlette I've ever had in my life. It was fluffy and crispy and the cheese was gooey in all the right places and the ham/cheese combo gave the perfect amount of saltiness (I'm pretty sure it was cooked in butter because it had a wonderful creaminess to it as well). I wish I would have remembered to take a photo of it. Mais, c'est la vie! Also I had my first glass of wine here! It was a nice house white. Crisp and not too dry.
The next day I woke up after a miserable time sleeping (went to bed at 11, woke up at 3am. Couldn't fall back asleep and then when I did proceeded to wake up a ton of times) at 8:30. My eyes were so bloodshot, even worse than they were from being on the plane! And then we all scurried over to Le Foyer International where our orientation was to occur. So we introduced ourselves and talked about basics such as phones and food, etc. Apres lunch (which we hurried over to a little grocery store to scavange some saucisson, yaourt, et chipsies (little potato chip like things) et un pomme (apple). Then we went on a BOAT TOUR OF THE SEINE!! OMGGGG! Haha. I saw the Eiffel Tower, the Louve, Notre Dame, Musee d'Orsay, countless bridges and many other wonderful places I probably want to visit! It was freezing btw.. then we all got phones (i called my dad and proceeded to use up all my minutes and can't figure out how to put more on..). Then we went to a mall in Place d'Italy to a store called Tati that our program director suggested to us because it's cheap housewares (such as pots/pans, etc). Then there was a grocery store in the mall (weird, but whateves. It's a city). And i tried to use my credit card and it failed. So I left the store looking like an idiot. But my card does work because I can get money out of the ATM! After a little rest Elora, Ariana, Marianna and I went out to dinner at this cute Italian place and I had a fabulous salad ( the photo's on fb). After we walked Elora back. When returning to our foyer we stopped in a grocery store and had a wonderful freak out about how cheap all the wine is and how wonderful it is! And I found gluten free foods! YESS. And now I'm VERY tired and I apologize for the incoherentness. I'll fix it tomorrow. Bon soir!
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