Home Sweet Home

Clarice and I found someplace to live! We're living in the heart of Paris, blocks away from the Eiffel Tower. We each have our own bedroom. They're really big, especially by Paris standards where students can expect to live in rooms the size of broom closets! We're on the first floor, a major plus! We're living with an older lady, Madame Fahmy. She has had an interesting life. She grew up in an aristocratic Egyptian family, in Egypt. She lived in a 56 room house! We saw a picture, it was huge. Then there was a revolution and her family lost everything. A dictator took over and eventually she moved to Paris and became a world journalist! Now she's retired and travels around alot. So much in fact that she'll hardly ever be here! We're basically house sitting for her. I like our location. We live next to a boulangerie (bakery) heavens knows I'll be hitting that up alot : ) We also live a block away from a laundrymat and a cheap grocery store, so our location is very convenient! Oh did I mention we live only a few blocks from the the main buildings of our school?
Today I got my classes all set, I got everything I wanted, thank goodness. I'm taking Museum as a Medium, which includeds field trips to the Louvre. I am SO EXCITED for that class. I'm also taking Paris Architecture, History of Venice (which has a study trip to Venice) European art and film between the world wars, and a Renaissance Art history class. The Ren class has a trip to Belgium! Call me a dork, but I'm excited for classes to start : )
Last night Clarice and I went grocery shopping for our dinner! We went to a little cheap place near us called Ed. Selection is pretty sparce, but we picked up a bag of chicken filets, cheese, and some rip off nutella that we've named fauxtella. Clarice also couldn't pass up the 2 euro wine, which was about the cheapest thing in the store! I had my first glass of wine, but I'm sorry to report it was really cheapo wine that tasted like vinegar! We cooked the chicken in a pan in some butter, then we decided to make use of the undrinkable wine and we dumped some in the pan to give the chicken flavor. We also melted slices of cheese on the chicken. It ended up tasting really good! So that's our improvised recipe for chicken- add wine and cheese! Very French, I deem it French Chicken, lol.
The other day Clarice and I had some free time so we took the metro over to Notre Dame. It was so beatiful! Lovely stained glass. We didn't go up in the towers, which costs money, but I'd like to go back and do it. I put up a bunch of pictures on facebook. I can't believe that all these famous sites are within a metro ride of me. YAY!
I have a list of all the things I want to do in Paris, I hope it get to see everything! Tonight I'm going on a night bus tour of Paris, I bet it will be beautiful. Ta Ta for Now!