The first weekend

Sorry I haven’t written in a while, I have been busy and tired and just had a lot going on! Thats a good thing though, I would much rather that then me be writing to you about the tile that is on my floor because I have nothing to talk about. But boy do I have a lot to share. So I believe I left off Thursday night, so Ill skip the boring French class and Ballet class that I take everyday and I will begin with the fancy dinner that we were provided with. Now I don’t remember the name, but well just say it was a French restaurant. It was gorgeous, had lovely molding everywhere and mirrors and just wow took my breath away. I would provide you with a picture but my camera was dead when I went to turn it on. So sorry, I should have checked it before we left. Anyway we were promptly served with red and white wine once we sat down. I had a sip of both but my taste buds weren't budging, I did not like either one. So I drank water. They then served us appetizers which was a pate, wasn’t that big of a fan but there were some onions that were covered in a jam thing and they were really delicious so I put some on my plate and mashed around the pate to make it look like I ate it. Then it was sea bass time, I love all sorts of sea food but shrimp and sea bass are my absolute favorites. I could hardly wait long enough for them to give everyone their entrees before I dug right in. It was superb and oh the mashed potatoes that accompanied it, hats off to the chef. Well, I didn’t want to get too full, but it was a little hard, because for dessert was my all time favorite creme brulee. I could literally eat it anytime of the day no matter how full I was. They brought out full plate size portions and I was in heaven, the amount of times Paris has put me in heaven shoot if I had a dollar I would be rich! About three-fourths of the way through I had the devil and angel fighting on my shoulders. Finish it, it’s so good and then the you are way too full, if you keep eating you will through up. I took two more bites but I was not able to finish it all. I am having regrets. Ah that dinner was delicious. After we gathered our belongings a couple of us went over to my friend Audrey’s apartment and met her roommate and some of her roommate’s friends from her program. It was good to meet some people besides the thirteen that are in our group. Around eleven we gained enough energy to venture out into the Paris nightlife. I mean they stay awake until five so we needed an extra boost. We went out to a total of three bars that night, dancing to all American songs that you would find on any America top 40. We didn’t really stumble upon many people that spoke English but boy did they try to talk to us. The metro closes at one thirty on the weekend so my friend Julia and I were forced to brave the taxi transportation on the way home. We actually enjoyed it because we were able to see the scenery and it was only ten euros. I fell into bed around four realizing we had a walking tour the next morning at two. 

The next day I got up around ten, got ready and went to see the lovely Notre Dame. We quickly looked around and snapped some pics because we needed to meet our group about four blocks away for our walking tour. We walked all around the sixth and seventh district and saw a lot of old houses, interesting architecture, some very unique boutiques, Victor Hugo’s house, Mozart’s house, a fantastic chocolate store, and many more things. The tour lasted about two hours, a little more, and I was ready for a nap afterwards. I stayed in the rest of the night, going home eating dinner taking a nap, catching up on some TV shows and then grocery shopping around ten at night, finally falling asleep around midnight. I woke up and tried to make the international mass at Notre Dame but I was too caught up on chatting with people that I was forced to wait. I had a sense of what was going on but I didn’t really realize how lost I would be at a French mass. Let’s just say I said the Our Father in English and I received some looks. Sunday was also my friend Audrey’s birthday. After church we went over to her apartment and had celebratory mimosas. We then ventured out to the ferris wheel but alas it was far too expensive for a chilly day like yesterday, so maybe another time. We could see the Eiffel tower so we took the challenge and walked three miles there, my feet hurt before we even arrived. The trek there was well worth it, it was so beautiful and even bigger than I remembered. Gosh, how does one build that or better yet think “lets have this huge tower and you can walk up to the top?” Well I am very grateful of whoever did because man I am very impressed. We stayed there about a half hour farting around and taking pictures. Then we remembered we had to walk three miles back. So we started, stopped to get cheese and bread and wine. Scarfed all of that down and went out for Audrey’s 21 Birthday dinner! It was delicious and fun times were had by all. I am so happy that I have found great friends here and I can’t wait for the rest of the exciting adventures that come next.