So her son did not arrive today to set up the internet, but he's coming on Tuesday after dinner...yay! Today was great...woke up around 10, had breakfast with Mme Biard (delicious coffee and toast with peach jam), and took a shower. Now, the showers here in the older buildings are a bit different from the showers I'm used to. Basically, there's a bathtub up against the wall that has one of those movable shower-heads attached to the faucet. I realized that (as far as I know) there is no way to take a shower standing up without soaking the entire "salle de bains," so I ended up sitting/kneeling in the bathtub with my shower-head, washing my hair, etc. It was kind of funny but it worked out...the other students that I talked to that had similar salles de bains said that they also sat down to shower to avoid soaking the room. We're very curious to see if there is an effective way to wash oneself standing up.
After bathing, I met up with Midori, another student who lives just around the corner from me. We looked into a gym near where we were staying for her (shes on the Stanford field hockey team), but gyms are SO expensive here. With a promotion that the gym was only having that week, for three months it was 361 euro. Thats over $500...quite a lot for 3 months. We don't think she'll be able to afford it, but she's gonna talk to her parents. From there we decided we were going to walk to the Eiffel Tower (not too far away) but we took a nice roundabout way of getting there and discovered this awesome little pedestrian street with local chocolatiers and boulengers. Most all of the small businesses are closed on Sundays, so we made a note to come back another day. The Eiffel Tower was of course amazing, and we took the required pictures with it in the background. From there we met up with 4 other girls in the program at a cafe near the Champs Elysses called Angelinas...oh man. They're apparently famous for their desserts and pastries and for good reason. Again, I took pictures. EVERYTHING is beautiful here, from the people to the streets to the food. At the end of the Champs Elysses there's this huge ferris wheel thats all lit up at night...its amazing.
We took the metro home to have dinner with our host families. I love the metro here, it smells good, its easy to understand, and its fast. The only thing to get used to is that you need to open the doors yourself. Other than that, its perfect. My metro station is "Jasmin."
Tomorrow we have to be at the Stanford center at 9:30am for a tour and more meetings, and classes officially start on Tuesday. Annnd I think it's time for me to get to sleep, I have to wake up pretty early tomorrow to eat and take the metro. I wish you were here!
peace
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