Move-In Day

It's Saturday night and I have finally left the hotel and moved in with my family. After waiting almost twenty minutes for the teeny-tiny elevator at the hotel this morning, I finally crammed in the elevator with my massive hockey bag of stuff before hauling in from the elevator into lobby. I might look crazy with that ginormous thing, but there are a bunch of people who have two huge things of luggage!

I arrive at the apartment around noon and met my host mother and host father. We sat down and had the most wonderful lunch I have ever eaten. We started with a delicious round of a hazelnut-raisin bread, a delicious ham, and some cantelope. After that we ate a pasta with octopus (or maybe squid, hard to tell en francaise) in an ink sauce. After that we ate cheese. Then we ate the best ice cream in Paris, which comes from Ile-St. Louis which my family got just for my arrival. It was delicious but now I am sooooo full!

After that we took a walk around the neighborhood so I could learn where everything is before we took a nice walk by the Eiffel Tour and sat at a nice little cafe there where some adorable french kids were having a nice little birthday party.

Now I am back at the appartment catching up on some random e-mails and goofy things that I probably should have caught up on before I left, but such is life I suppose.

I am really excited for the week ahead! Classes start on Monday! I will be taking four classes through CIEE and hopefully one class at the University here in Paris. Also, my french family will be hosting another exchange student who is coming from Germany. It will be really nice to have another student here in the house. I think it is a girl, but I cannot remember. It will be nice not only to have someone else to hang out with here, but also for cooking and grocery sharing.

Unfortunately I forgot my camera adapter thing at home, so I havent been able to post any pictures yet, but my mom is sending it in the mail so soon I can share my pictures with all of you!

Katharine