Bonjour Everyone!
I wrote a post when I first started my blog earlier this year talking about how I would be going to France for my junior year of university, and I'm finally here, Woot! I've actually been in France for around 3 weeks but now I finally have the time to just sit down and really write about what I've experienced so far. Well, to be honest I've had little cracks in my day that I could have written but that time usually is just the minutes I can just sit on my bed and breathe. I've been running like the energizer bunny these past couple of weeks. I feel like I've actually been here for 2 months. The days truly do blend together, and not like in the summer when the days blend together and you cry when you get closer and closer to the first day back to school. It's more blended in the fact that I don't have any clue where the last couple weeks have gone and when I think about it my mind just can't focus due to the blur of it all.
I'm going to try and backtrack and give a slight overview of my first couple weeks here.
Leaving my family again for another year was difficult. I normally go to school out of state so I really only see my family a couple months a year, but knowing that this will be another Christmas without my family does make me a bit somber so that sucks quite a bit.
Anyway lets move on to less depressing topics. The plane ride was actually not that bad. I had around 7 hours to London and it passed rather quickly. I watched Admission, a couple episodes of the Big Bang Theory and then caught up on whatever season they had of Dexter. Here is a photo of the food we got. :) It was really good and I was pleasantly surprised. Then again I'm not that picky...or at all really. I'm the one who at times really enjoyed cafeteria food. Ha Ha Ha...yeah I know.
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| Pasta, salad, tea, a roll and cheesecake <3 |
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I did have one slight layover in London. Sadly, it was only an hour so I really didn't get to see anything. Right when we got off we had to take a shuttle to the main airport which was interesting. Actually being in a vehicle that drives on the opposite side of the road was an experience.
I met a really nice girl who was teaching in Israel and we had the same plane to Paris and to our horror it took a lot of time getting through security and taking the shuttle so we were literally running through the airport looking for our plane. Thankfully we found it! That ride was only an hour and I just jammed to my music the whole time.
Arriving in Paris though...was the thing I was dreading the most at the time. I've been to Paris before and I remembered that CDG was a mess and I was nervous about everything. I need to start just chilling and going with the flow. Getting my visa stamped was sort of annoying because there was only one person at the checking point so it took forever.
Also here is my scary airport story. If you go to study abroad in France
there is one thing they repeatedly tell you in order to avoid a lot of
trouble and accidents. Time after time I was told about fake taxis, and I
was certain I was going to be fine and I was trying not to think about
it too much. As I was waiting in line to order a taxi this random dude
came up to me and told me he was also a taxi driver. I was actually
freaking out thinking this dude was going to kill me. In order to not
die I kept asking him for his credentials and kept rambling on about how
if he didn't have those then in my mind he was a scary killer. My
exacts words were something along the lines of "I think if I go with you
I'd most likely die" in my broken french since I was so mind boggled.
Luckily and to my embarrassment as well as pleasure he did have a card
and his car said taxi on it. Thank the Lord. The dude was really nice
but I felt bad because he kept trying to talk to me and I tend to do
this thing in cars, whether it be for an hour, a road trip, or however
long it is, and that is I drift off. So this dude kept trying to talk
and my head kept falling up and down so I must have appeared like a
badly manufactured bobble head. He was cool and helped me find the House
of Canadian students where I paid to stay for 10 days. /overpriced
Upon
arriving the really nice dude at the reception desk (who is later to be
renamed Moroccan man) helped my lift my human sized suitcase up the
stairs because there was no way in Hell I could have done them myself
after such a long day. The room itself wasn't bad, in fact it was sort
of cozy. I actually forgot to take pictures....whoops.
My roommate
came in later and o m g she was, and still is hilarious. She made me
really laugh out loud quite a couple times. We had a mini meeting later
in the day and then afterwards we both went out to get out first crepes
in France! They were so delicious.
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| Deliciousness. |
After that a lot of what happened after for the next week is in one big blur. In short I've made a couple great friends who I've hung out with a lot during these past couple of weeks. I would have been depressed if I was all alone with no one to talk through. I can to France as an exchange student when I was 16. Now, at 20 it is surprisingly much harder.
Here is a few things that I've done with some photos :)
We went and ate lunch at the jardin du Luxembourg which was beautiful!
I went on a boat that rode along the Seine which was glorious. The view
was lovely and it was fun. Also my friends and I were running crazy late
for this and we were actually sprinting through the metro and 3 streets
to get there on time. It was a mess but we made it!!!!
I hope you guys enjoyed the mini update! I honestly can't really think of anything else right now and I just want to sleep! I'll be trying to do another update tomorrow but here is Part One!
I hope everyone is doing okay as well!!!!
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