English bubble.

Hello all! I promised a slightly more informative post this weekend and here it is!

I've continued to make more friends and get to know more people. It's really cool because I'm meeting people from so many different places, but we're all here in France together. We've been drinking wine down by la Garonne, walking back to our apartments at 3 in the morning since the metro has stopped, comparing the different forms of English and laughing at the miscommunication it occasionally causes. However, along with this group of awesome people comes the ease of speaking constant English. I was taken aback when I ordered my coffee at McDonald's this morning and I was spoken to in French. I knew I wasn't at home, but I had momentarily forgotten that I'm in France!

Although I'm very aware that I'm going to continue to speak English, I am going to make an effort to speak French more often. Maybe I'll even do some studying... or not.

I am going to try and update tomorrow as well with what happens the rest of today, but as of now the plan is: possibly pick up some furniture to borrow/move into the apartment and later on we might be going to a football game (soccer football). I'm really looking forward to going and experiencing a soccer game in another country. I'll be sure to tell you all about it if it ends up happening.

Anna and Brian went to get our new fridge yesterday, but the woman didn't realize we wanted to take it that day, so there was still food in it. So, she's going to have it ready to go tomorrow. My bank card should come in this week, so hopefully within a week I can stop relying on McD's for internet. Although a child just walked by with a very delicious looking sundae... I'll try and resist, but I did walk like an hour home last night. Which was also followed by Annie's mac n cheese.

OH YEAH! Yesterday morning our buzzer rang and it was a delivery guy with the package I've been expecting from Mama Green. I HAD TO PAY 118 EUROS TO ACCEPT THE PACKAGE! My mom already had to spend a decent amount the send them damn thing here! Apparently in France, customs has huge taxes (mainly for packages sent from the US or China) that the person receiving the package has to pay or they can't have it! After muttering some choice words under my breath, I paid the man because I wanted my peanut butter, mac n cheese, and Harry Potter books. I also gave him plenty of attitude even though I'm aware he was just doing his job. But, we are in France after all, I'm sure he's used to grumpy people.

There are so many adorable French children running around McDonald's right now. I can't even handle it. I hear these little children speaking French so easily and I'm always like...  why can this baby speak French so much better than me? And then I remember that they are French babies and not just geniuses, which makes me feel a little better.

I know I haven't posted any pictures of the apartment yet or very many of me actually doing things in France, but I promise they will come. I'm trying to get things with the apartment settled and I'm just really bad at uploading the pictures I take. But, I can promise that I will absolutely at least attempt to remember to do it tomorrow. On va voir!