First Entry from France!

I'm never going to Australia or Asia. Long flights are so horrible! On the flight to France, we hit tubulence zhile over the Atlantic. I felt like the plane was a maraca.

But the flight went as well as it could have. The hôtesses were quite sweet and the pilotspoke beautiful French.
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The plane landed. I had been chewing gum furiously to cope with the changing altitude. I had gotten on the plane at 18h10. On 30 May at 8h36, I took my first step in France. Despite my severe distaste for airline staircases, I was happy to descend - or at least go outside for a few minutes before being ushered into a bus that takes me to building.

Roissy - Friggin' huge! That airport is bigger than Luxembourg.

Fashion - No one here looks ordinary. Everyone seems to have spent 8 hours deciding what to wear this morning.

The people in my program are really nice. Today, someone called me "The Police" because I (forcibly) encouraged us Americans to speak - parler français! I like it. We won't we fluent if we don't use it. After all, this is FRANCE.

Observations

• sidewalks don't exist. they are merely roads with no moving vehicles for a few moments
• fresh bread is awesome! esp. Emile BEC - 0.75 € baguettes
• people here are or more than kind. very helpful, polite
• the food's better

Places I've Been

Tour of Aix - Place de Quatre Dauphins - Cours Mirabeau - Monoprix - Office de Tourisme - Palais Archipescopal - Hôtel de Ville - Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur