Me excited to see Notre Dame (again)!
Hello from Paris!
Well, we made it! After an 8 hour flight across several time zones, our plane touched down in Paris around 8:30 this morning, the start of a very long day. We all got a good first experience of Paris' public transportation systems, all while lugging around all our suitcases for the month! (And trust us, not all Metro stations are equipped with escalators!) Our group then split up to each go our own ways to find our homestays for the month.
Karen and I eventually found our apartment building after a bit of an adventure wandering Parisian streets. We settled in, freshened up a bit, then left to take the Metro to Notre Dame to meet the rest of the group. Our group took a little bit of a walking tour, led by Jenna, in the area around Notre Dame. Afterwards, some of us experienced the joys of buying an international cell phone, all while speaking to the workers in French!
I then got to experience my first homestay dinner. There were many misunderstandings but also a lot of laughs (the good kind)! Dessert was excellent - rhubarb for Karen, rice pudding for me. Our host family is wonderful, this upcoming month will be a lot of fun with them I'm sure!
Tomorrow our group is going to get to know the city a little bit better and maybe the city will even get to know us! We start classes on Monday at the university..and my head is already spinning with French!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Bonjour Paris!
Me excited to see Notre Dame (again)!
Hello from Paris!
Well, we made it! After an 8 hour flight across several time zones, our plane touched down in Paris around 8:30 this morning, the start of a very long day. We all got a good first experience of Paris' public transportation systems, all while lugging around all our suitcases for the month! (And trust us, not all Metro stations are equipped with escalators!) Our group then split up to each go our own ways to find our homestays for the month.
Karen and I eventually found our apartment building after a bit of an adventure wandering Parisian streets. We settled in, freshened up a bit, then left to take the Metro to Notre Dame to meet the rest of the group. Our group took a little bit of a walking tour, led by Jenna, in the area around Notre Dame. Afterwards, some of us experienced the joys of buying an international cell phone, all while speaking to the workers in French!
I then got to experience my first homestay dinner. There were many misunderstandings but also a lot of laughs (the good kind)! Dessert was excellent - rhubarb for Karen, rice pudding for me. Our host family is wonderful, this upcoming month will be a lot of fun with them I'm sure!
Tomorrow our group is going to get to know the city a little bit better and maybe the city will even get to know us! We start classes on Monday at the university..and my head is already spinning with French!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Chicago!
Well, we've made it to Chicago successfully, so our journey is about to begin! I've got 20 minutes of free Wi-Fi here, now that I've watched a video about the Hyatt Hotel. Jenna, our student adviser, gave us maps of where we will be living and we have planned out our initial Metro rides (from our homestays to the university).
It definitely still has not hit me that I am about to fly to Paris to spend a month there. And actually, I'm not sure if it will until we are actually there and get settled into our homestays. I am very excited for all the new experiences I will have!
There are 17 of us total going on this May Term to Paris. Dr. David Hagan is our professor, Jenna Peterson is our student adviser, and Karen Summerson will be my Parisian roomie.
Well in approx. 9 hours we will be landing in Paris, something I have been looking forward to all year!
Goodbye Chicago, Bonjour Paris!
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