Parle-vous angleis?

Hey.
so it has been a couple day i am going to try to get in the habit of writing everyday.
I have a lot to catch up on so here we go:

Saturday January 17th

Today we got up and started our day off with a traditional french pastry for breakfast. It was really good. The tradition is there is a little trinket inside the cake somewhere (ours had a tiny ceramic lamb). Whoever gets the little trinket in their piece of cake is the king/queen for the day. They got to either wear or choose someone to wear the crown. It was a cute little thing to start off our trip in paris. In my group, no one had it in their piece-- it was atcually in the last piece on the plate, that no one originally took... so Brittany lbasically looked through the cake until she found it. lol . With our breakfast we had some pomme juice (aka apple juice) lol. it tasted normal lol

After we had breakfast we had our orientation. we learned the ins and outs of the St. johns Paris campus. We were introduced to the staff and our advisers. Everyone seems really nice. We figured out where our classes were and where everything in the building is. next to the building is a church-- priests and stuff live there. Also St. Vincent De' Paul's bones are in the building next to us... that's kinda weird and interesting haha. A nun talked about doing service in Paris.. not a lot of spots, open so we had to expand something. i signed up to do a night at a soup kitchen with my roommate.. it'll be a long night compared to the other services, but I'm fine with it lol. I really wish i could have signed up for the preschool-- they start teaching English at that age so i would just need to go there an talk to them. That would have been perfect if all the times i could do weren't all filled up by the time i got to the sheet. But its okay.. maybe in another country lol

After our orientation we had lunch -- the food was okay. lol after lunch we got ready and headed out to our boat tour. The boat tour was on the Seine River. It was a lil chilly, and they thought it was going to rain, but it didn't! We walked there.. wasn't too far. You could definitely tell we were all not French though! Everyone was taking pictures of everything we passed by. we stood out so bad. hah it was good though. we got to hang around a bit before the tour because we were early so we walked around the area.. where we went for the boat tour there was a little park and it was by the river, so we took some pictures. on our boat trip we saw a bunch of things including museums, famous bridges, federal buildings, as well as the Eiffel Tower. it was a nice boat ride and it was cool to see all the things from the river.

After we finished with the boat tour, we were free to go do and see whatever we wanted to. a bunch of us just walked around the area. we went to the Notre dame, and the surrounding areas. Notre dame is so big, and looks so nice. all the details of the building were amazing. It reminded me of the hunchback of Notre dame (the Disney movie). After we saw that, we walked some more going to various places, while we walked back to the school. i love just walking around the city, looking at all the buildings, and taking in my surroundings. It is nothing like new york-- the buildings anyway.. they are so nice.

That night we went out on the town, found a bar and danced the night away!! it was fun!