Et les cours commence...

Today marks the first day of classes! Besides getting totally lost in the building (here, first floor means first floor of actual classes, so classes on the quatrième étage were actually on the sixth floor. Who knew. Also, Elsa and I got locked in an outdoor stairwell for a few minutes.) The class itself was really fun! The teacher was super nice and had really good transitions in her four hour lesson. I have students from Germany, Ireland, Japan, Taiwan,edict, Switzerland, and the US in my class. Unfortunately I'll probably be switching to a higher level tomorrow, but it was neat to have so many cultures unified by one common language.

After class, Molly, Kelley and I (they're officially my adventure companions) went back to Notre Dame and sat next to the Seine to write our journals and read. We were sitting on the stone walls that border the river but rest below street-level, so it was really peaceful. We must've been looking especially Parisian today because people kept taking pictures of us as they passed in bateaux-mouches (open top tourist boats). Horray for blending in!

Also-- a cousin of Benny Marzano's is coming to Paris! I don't know how they'll handle the Virginia Slice :)

Aaand then later on in the day we had dinner at the Fiap with all the other American students staying here! It was so much fun. Our menu included melon and ham as an appetizer, duck and a summer vegetable mix as the main course, mango mousse for dessert, and plenty of red wine on the side. It was refreshing to be able to speak English without people frowning at us for a change.