Paris Week 2

Hi Everyone! So I've spent a little over 2 weeks in Paris now. I'm happy to say that my BC intensive program is finally over! It was a bit ridiculous actually, I had 5 hours of class a day then would arrive home at 3 and work up until 1 or 2 am in the morning! Finally, Monday was our last day, even though I do have this professor and BC class once a week from now on!
Last week was better than the first, it's still a difficult adjustment but I'm trying to get used to it! I went food shopping again and this time looked up all the food I wanted in French so it was easy to know what I was getting! Also, last week was my first week at the apartment without Courtney staying with me which felt weird but I'm hoping once we both settle we can meet up a couple times a week! So last week was pretty busy with work but on Thursday we went on a tour of St. German des Pres (my Uncle Michael's favorite area of Paris!) It was very pretty and quaint, but seeing as we had a 15 minute presentation the next day, not many people enjoyed it. Still, I took some nice pictures which are below:


This is my host sister from high school Justine. Senior year, I stayed with her family for a week and last Saturday, she came to visit! We spent the day shopping, going out to lunch, more shopping, then just talking in my apartment. It was so nice to see her and I'm glad that we kept in touch all of these years so that she could come visit. Hopefully, some weekend in the spring, I will be able to return to her family's house in Nantes and relive senior year!

This is one of the Metro stations that is very cool! The entire wall and wall are covered like this with letters and I felt it merited a photo. There are some other artsy metro stations that I have yet to take a picture of-- one of them being the Louvre stop that has replicas of some of the paintings in them!

Ah the Louvre! This is the famous glass pyramid to enter the museum. I haven't been inside yet but during our tour we passed it and I couldn't miss out on the photo opportunity.

Here is just a tiny portion of the Louvre. Even though I've seen it before, it struck me again how huge it was!

I edited this picture a bit (can you tell) I thought it looked very "old Paris" I took this photo from a bridge on the Seine river.

This is a street we walked down in St. Germain des Pres, I really liked these apartments, they seemed so quaint and Parisienne!

This is a picture inside the church of St. Germain. The stained glass windows were very pretty and there was a tiny bit of sun that day so they really lit up!