If you're gonna get lost you might as well get lost in Paris!

Day 1 was great! We went to CUPA, got our Navigo passes for le metro, and had dinner with our family. 

On the menu was what we believe was turkey (our madame told us it was like chicken, but not quite...we assumed turkey and would care not to believe otherwise) cooked on the stove in a pan with spices on it, a cooked zucchini and carrot vegetable mix, and, of course, un pain (bread). After our main meal we had a cheese course. As some of you may know, I am not a big cheese-eater. Luckily, the madame told us if we didn't want to take any we were not obligated to do so. My roommate took some of each (one made with goat's milk and the other made from cow's milk). She like the cow's milk one, but had a hard time pretending to enjoy the goat milk's one. Next was dessert, my fave! We had a mixture of oranges and strawberries. She also brought out crackers, or what we would call gingerbread cookies. Overall, it was a delicious meal!

After dinner we both finished our homework for the next day. I was done by 1o pm our time and fell asleep shortly after. Sarah was up much later, poor thing. She had to write 3 compositions in French. 

I woke at 7 am this morning to shower and get ready to leave. When we had both showered and gotten dressed we headed to the kitchen where our madame had laid out bowls, plates, utensils, and breakfast fixings for us. For breakfast we had toast with raspberry jam (soo good!) and chocolate granola with milk (also very good). We hurried through breakfast to meet our friends down the street to walk to the metro to get us to CUPA by 9 am to buy cell phones. 

At first, we did great with navigating the streets of Paris. In fact, none of us can even recall where we got lost, but nonetheless we did get lost. We spent about an hour walking through the 16th arrondissement of Paris. (A very wealthy area, so we didn't feel unsafe at any time. Thank goodness!) At one point we were on Victor Hugo Ave. when one of us looked down the street for the Metro sign. Instead of the metro sign we saw le Arc de Triumph! Sure, we were lost, but we couldn't help but enjoy the view of such an awesome structure! We used the very petite amount of French we all had to get us to where we needed to go. Unfortunately, that alone was not enough, so we were forced to break out our map navigation skills. Yes, that's right, Emily, your big sis read a map...and actually understood it. Long (very, very long) story short, we found the metro and navigated it without any problems. For us, the difficult part was finding the metro station, not navigating the metro routes! Needless to say, we didn't arrive at CUPA at 9, nor did we arrive at the assigned time of 10. Instead, we rolled in fashionably late at around 10:20. Luckily, on our way through the near CUPA we ran into the boys who, no doubt, kept us from getting lost any further. 

Lunch...

We picked up sandwiches from a nearby patisserie (pastry and bread store) and took them to a beautiful park for lunch. My sandwich had cheese and bacon bits on it. Okay, okay, I know it sounds strange, but I promise it was delicious! Caroline and I snuck away and bought a cookie from another patisserie after we had returned to CUPA. While standing in line, we asked 2 French boys how to say "cookie" in French. (Comment dit ton "cookie") Their reply..."hahaha...COOKIE"! Embarrassing? Um, yes! Then they laughed as we ordered the "cookie"! 

Class...

Classes are good. We didn't do much today, but we will do more from now on. Today was mostly a briefing and orientation on how things would run normally. 

Plans for the night...

Dinner should be served soonish...most likely between 8 and 9. (Ya...they eat late, even by college kid standards) After dinner, several of us are planning to go to the Eiffel Tower. The boys went last night (yes, just the boys) and said they people watched, sat in the grass, and "enjoyed life". Sounded fun, so we're stealing the idea tonight! :] 

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