Hello, bonjour, hola! On Saturday I decided I wanted to do some sort of sight seeing, so I searched on good old Google for some free things to do in Paris (I may be in Paris, but I am definitely still a poor student). After reading our choices - which included a wander round the gardens of Luxembourg, Notre-Dame Cathedral and Sacré-Coeur - to...
Hello, bonjour, hola! On Friday night, Sam and I ventured down to Le Carreau du Temple to check out a street food festival I'd heard about. Its a three day food festival, with food trucks surrounding the building, serving every type of food you can imagine - I'm talking fish and chips, burritos, steak, brownies, acai bowls, the lot! It seems that each year, the festival honours...
Hello, bonjour, hola! SO. It is finally Friday and somehow I have survived my first week of classes... just! What a week. If you've already read my post about Monday, you'll know I've not been holding out much hope for this week! I did have several repeats of Monday over the last few days - missing lectures because the website says a different or...
Hello, bonjour, hola! As promised, here is a post about my humble abode for the next few months. Sam and I are living on the fifth floor of a typical Parisian-looking building in the 15th arrondissement (an arrondissement is a section/district of Paris, there are twenty in total). There are two metro stations within a 5-10 minute walk. There's also a really lovely park down...
Hello, bonjour, hola! Monday was the beginning of the term at La Sorbonne (the university I'm studying at), which meant I had to stop relaxing and eating pain au chocolat and start attending some seminars, a scary prospect considering I've barely spoken French or Spanish in the last four months! Something I didn't really expect to do and didn't really enjoy doing, was making...
Hello, bonjour, hola! 10 days after my arrival in Paris, I can confirm I have made it, I have an apartment and I have just about worked out how to use the metro. Miracle. So, getting to Paris involved three suitcases, two trains, two taxis, one stressed mum and a very scared Jodie. But we made it! We got the train from St...
