The last few days

Ok, I finally have a moment to catch up on the last few days! So the trip over here was fine, the plane to France had much smaller seats than the plane from LAX to Philly! I didn't sleep on the plane, i tried but I just couldn't. There were student advisors who met us right when we got out of the baggage claim. The carts were free to use! And i definitely used one. But once we got to a certain point of the airport we couldn't take the cart anymore so i had to drag my two bags for a while and that was hard. There was a group of us and some were walking faster than others. With my 200 pounds of bags behind me it was a little hard to keep up! But i managed. They had a shuttle to take us to the FIAP which is the student hostel that they had us in. Right away I met another girl her name is Jen and she's in the same program as me. She's younger, 24 years old and she's from upstate NY. She's very sweet and more mature for her age. I also met another girl from India and her name is Kamini. She's also 24 but they are both more mature than some of the other girls here. There are a group of girls who act like they're in Highschool. My student advisor's name is Javier. He's been here a year and he's been helpful. Everyone here is really nice and helpful. I met 2 of the professors today for student advising and they were very nice.

My apartment is really nice and everyone who's heard about it (that already lives here) has said that's it's in a really good neighborhood. My landlady is really nice and she speaks english very well. I told her that i want to practice my french so she's speaking to me in french. Last night she gave me a comforter that she said i can keep! I just need to buy a pillow now. Last night i used my airplane pillow. It worked but i'd like to get a real pillow.

I paid her my deposit of 670 euro and prorated for January was 429 euro. So I'm paid up through the end of January! I finally have my ATM card! And I should be getting my cell phone today and with the cell i can BBM other blackberry's for FREE anywhere and make free calls to landlines in the US and Canada. Anything Free is good!

And once i can get my laptop set up at home i will start posting pictures!

=)

Another day!

I registered for classes today. I'm taking 3 core and 1 elective classes. The elective is an Advertising Practicum. Should be intersting. The campus is divided in to a bunch of buildings around the 7th. There are 3 main buildings and they're about a 5 - 10 min walk from each other. Not too bad except on 2 days i have back to back classes in different buildings. But they do give you 15 minutes between to get around so that's good. I'm walking now more than ever in my life! And i live on the 6th floor with no elevator. ugh! But at least hopefully that'll keep me in shape! Especially after eating all the bread! I finally had crepes last night. YUM! And i've been living off of baguettes and ham and cheese for the past few days. And "Coca Light" which is diet coke which i'm obsessed with, it's actually better than diet coke, the taste. I don't know what's actually different but it's good stuff!

So many things to do! I have my bank account and now i just need my cell phone. Once i get my cell phone i can BBM (blackberry messenger) to anyone for FREE! And I can make free calls to landlines in the US!

I'm Here I'm Here!

Wow, ok I have not had a chance to write in here like i've wanted to. There's so much to tell so far and it's only Wednesday! Luckily there are computers at school that I can use since my internet at home is not set up yet. There's so much to do, so much to set up, so much to take care of this week. It's kinda ridic. I will have to come back to the computers later to go in to more detail on everything. I haven't downloaded any pictures yet but I will try to do that as soon as possible. For now, i'm here and i'm alive!

50 people 1 question...briliant

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Pack pack pack

I started really packing for Paris yesterday and by last night I had one suitcase almost done.  And to my utter surprise almost all my clothes fit in one suitcase.  Wtf?  I thought I had way more stuff than that.  Well there's a lot that I'm not taking.  I'm not taking about half the jeans that I have.  I decided that if I have worn it less than a handful of times in the last year then I probably won't wear it in Paris.  I still have one empty suitcase to fill with my sweaters, jacket, shoes and other personal items.  And once that is done then I'm done packing!  It's really hard to believe that I'm leaving on Friday!  I mean today is Tuesday that's not very far away!

And this morning I woke up with a sore throat, I haven't tried talking yet but I can't imagine that it would go very well.  I need to take something to get rid of this cold before I leave.  I really don't want to be sick on the plane.  

I got my US passport yesterday.  What a pain in the ass this has been.  Over the weekend I got a letter saying there was something wrong with my certificate and they couldn't finish processing my passport.  On Monday I had to go to the Federal Building in LA to get my certificate straightened out (the problem was that the idiots in SD forgot to stamp my certificate.)  So my dad and I went to the Federal Building and it took about 2 1/2 hours but I walked away with my passport in hand.  The saving grace was that I was able to get my passport the same day.  Now I have a Canadian passport, a US passport and a French Visa...I'm so international!  

~N

Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!

I ended up spending New Years Eve + the end of the week in Lake Arrowhead.  Simeen, Shannon and I decided to go sledding through the forest and here's the video I put together...

Video of my munchkins!

I got to visit with Dawn, Jason, Harlow & Zoe before the New Year.  And since i'm in to making these little videos now, here's what I put together!  (I tried to upload it to blogger but it won't upload so watch it here:  http://www.facebook.com/v/110404685542