I've been here a week. Wow. What a whirlwind-week it's been. Everything goes by so quickly but looking back it seems like I've been here a long time, because so much has happened. The funny thing is, though, that when I go to write about it, I can't remember much at all.
We have this language partner program here where Stanford students meet up with ISEP students (ISEP is an electrical engineering college in Paris where our program is centered) to speak French and English with each other. My language partner seems very nice, but I haven't had much of a chance to get to know him yet. I did spend a fair amount of time this week hanging out with some of the other girls' language partners. My favorite moment from hanging out with them one evening was trying to translate jokes into French. The only joke I knew (and could translate) that they thought was funny was "Pourquoi le poulet a-t-il traverse la rue?" or "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Apparently they've never heard that one before...
This afternoon I walked over to the Champs de Mars, which is this very pretty park area right next to the Eiffel Tower. When I first got there, I ran across the end of a dance exhibit. It was a big group of dolled-up Parisians doing American square dancing. They had on these ridiculous, shiny outfits meant to imitate American country western outfits, I think? It made my day. It was so funny. I took pictures of it, but my camera batteries died so I can't upload them quite yet. Hopefully you'll get to see them soon...
I'm also feeling a bit under the weather...hopefully that gets better.
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Good for people to know.
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