We were kept REALLY busy yesterday, with all kinds of little events, to keep us from being able to crash and let the jet-lag set in, which seems to have worked pretty well as of now! These events included picnic lunches, sandwiches and crepes depending on your preference (I chose sandwich: butter and brie cheese!), in the Luxembourg garden! It is gorgeous, but I haven't actually gotten to fully exploring that yet...then we had our first class in Europe, which most of us fell asleep during...finally we had a neighborhood walking tour! That was really cool and interesting, except that there were some issues with picking the best timing...at that point jet-lag had taken control of me without my permission, so I had to work hard just to keep walking. But I did it! I made it to the Notre Dame and back by my own volition!
However...shortly after making it back, I crashed, so I missed the first group terrace time. Oh well. It's all good, since I got to go up to the terrace and see the view before then.
After sleeping that long, I'm back in action today!
Today, so far, we had a lesson on the metro and introducing our semester, after a baguette for breakfast. Then, we put our lesson into action and bought "un carne", which is a group of 10 metro tickets, and took the metro to the "Basilique du Sacre-Coeur" or the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. And it was gorgeous! Not to mention the view of Paris from it!
We also got to walk around that area to an artist market, where there were lots of painters trying to get you to buy a portrait from them. Of course, I said no, because as fun as it would be, I don't need a drawing of myself for that much money when I'm in Paris! But looking around at all the other paintings especially was a lot of fun, and super interesting!
Then, we went to a market to buy ourselves lunch! I have no idea what kind of cheese or bread I bought, but I also bought a little basket of strawberries or "fraise" for myself! All of the above was delicious. Since then, I've made it back to the hostel and downloaded and uploaded pictures! I'll post more soon, but in the mean time, I'm off to enjoy and explore Paris!
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