Paris, 1st blog

Me in front of le Louvre!

I've been in France for 2 nights now. The first night I stayed in paris at a youth hostel for pretty cheap. I was pretty tired due to the jet lag, but since I arrived to paris in the morning and because it was PARIS, i forced myself to tour the city a bit and saw all the things all the tourists see - eiffel tower, notre dame, le louvre, arc de triomphe. I usually used the metro to get between places, but when i couldn't find a station anywhere between notre dame and the eiffel tower so i started walking. On the map, it didn't look like that far, but i soon found out how far it really was. My legs were SOO tired when I finally reached the eiffel tower, that I had to rest and buy a drink. Buying a drink at the eiffel tower was not the best idea - 3 Euros (5 dollars) for the smallest bottle of water you can imagine!!!!!! ah well. Anyway, I got back to the hostel and slept for a while, before I went to get some dinner with my roomate at the hostel. And guess where we went for dinner? of all the fine restaurants to eat at in paris, we chose - McDonalds! hahhahaha my mom would have killed me. But who can resist a 5 Euro dinner with so much food, when everywhere is twice as expensive for half the quantity. I had a beer at night in the hostel bar, then took the train the next morning for Lisieux, Normandy. The scenery from the train window was pretty amazing - it went from packed apartments in Paris, to open grassy fields with a LOT of COWS in normandy. The English teacher picked me up from the station, and invited me to stay at her house for the weekend which is where I am right now. They are a nice family, and because she is the English teacher at the high school (and from England) it's quite nice that I can communicate fairly easily. Anyways that's it for now.

My room at the hostel in Paris.

Thought this was cool to find in Paris. Home away from home.











And a photo of the house in the countryside I am staying at for the weekend....