Day 5: la vie est belle!

Today I made a fabulous discovery! It was our first day actually at the IES center today, and it was on my way there that I discovered that there is an Indian food restaurant right across the street from IES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This of course made me quite excited because I was sure that there would be no Indian food in Paris, yum yum yum. I haven't gone there yet but I plan to very soon :) Well, so as I said today was the first day at IES and I liked the metro communte there much better, I only had to switch trains once instead of twice. The street that it is on (Rue Daguerre) is amazing, it is so vibrate and beautiful. There is basically an outdoor market at the end of it, and it is full of these cute little restaurants and chocholat shops. The area IES is in has a lot of good cheep(er) shopping, and I was quite excited because I finally found a place where they sell unbrellas. I had lunch at a yummy greek place that was fairly cheep, and had really good fallafal, definatly a place to go back to. We had our first day of language review classes, and I was really happy I was in the later group so I got to sleep in a bit. The class was fine, just a lot of easy grammar review. I was happy because I tested into the most advanced class which means that if I pass the next test at the end of the 5 classes (which basically just confirms where you are supposed to be I think) I don't have to take a grammar class and get to take a translation one intsead which seems much more interesting. I am really excited for the weekend, after class on friday I don't have any more IES stuff until Monday so I will get to see more of the city. Hum not much else intersting to report, I am still geting used to french cuisine and am asking a lot of "qu'est-ce que c'est?" at the dinner table. I like almost everything, but it is very different than what I am used to, for example tonight we had zuckinie (humm i dont really know how to spell that) soup and rice. Than after dinner we had cheese, bread, and plums. It was all really yummy but definatly now what I would eat at home. hum nothing else terribly interesting to report, my french is improving drasticly which is good, and I am definatly having more and more converstaions with random french people (someone stopped me on the metro today to ask for help figuring out which line to take and i was able to tell her no problem, which made me really happy that i could not only speak french but I knew the metro well enough by now to direct her). Well I can't think of anything else interesting to say so I guess I will leave it here!