une semaine a paris

I can't believe it's been a week already!

Last sunday I touched down at CDG with a few people from SB and we moved into our dorm rooms. The rooms are very small but when you get to live in a city like this you can't complain. The dorms are in a really nice location in the 12th arrondisement. We have a really cute boulangerie/patisserie as well as the marche d'aligre (open-air market) which runs from tuesay through sunday.

So far this week:

SUNDAY: plane ride. 14 hours. lovely airplane food. haha. LAX->Philadelphia->CDG

MONDAY: day of hailing taxis, hauling suitcases, learning how to shower in a 2X2 box. ate first croissant at cafe bastille. went with some friends to the eiffel tower.

TUESDAY: orientation at the UC accent center. afternoon was housing orientation//walk through the rue du faubourg/ledru rollin/daumesnil neighborhood.

WEDNESDAY: i found out that once the actual semester starts up (Sept 8) I will be taking French Art, Paris in Literature, French 2, and European Integration. It totals to 28 units (if you count the ILP, intensive language program that i'm in now) So I'll probably end up droping Euro Intergration.
At night a few of us went out to this restaurant called le refuge de fondue. The fondue was great but the best part was that they served wine in baby bottles...yes, actual baby bottles. It was in the Montmartre section of Paris where they filmed Amelie too. Later on we went to the Champs-Elysees to a club called Queen. Definitely a good experience, they played a lot of re-mixed american songs there as well.

THURSDAY: I went to the local pharmacy. Ever since I got of the plane, actually before too...I've been coughing/runny nose/sore throat...you know the deal. So it's been kind of hard adjusting to meeting all these new people, exploring the town when you feel under the weather. The pharmacist gave me cough drops (pastilles) and cough syrup. We went to Luxembourg Gardens for most of the day.

FRIDAY: First day of the language practicum. I think this is going to be a fun class. In the afternoon all 18 of us in the class metro-ed to Cite de la Musique//Villete (it used to be where all the slaughterhouses were, but now there are just museums and concert venues). There are excursions for the class three days a week. I made some other friends from SB and SD.

SATURDAY: Woke up and went to the boulangerie. I bought a croissant beurre and a muffin cassis. I think by the end of the four months I will definitely be a regular there. =] We wandered over to the marche d'aligre after. It sort of reminded me of a scene from Aladdin because there are rows and rows of fresh fruit and vegetable stands with vendors calling out all their prices. At night I went out for dessert (creme brulee!)

I think that's pretty much it for now. I'll try to update weekly and keep everyone posted.

I miss you ALL!!! (though I'm not really sure who reads this, haha)
Much <3