It has been a while since I have updated. I have had some difficulty finding internet access lately. I have a computer account at one of the schools, but things such as my blog and facebook and whatever else someone would want to do on the computer are blocked. So I’ve been trying to keep up by writing in a word document, which I always plan on posting later. But I’ve found it hard to do that, and obviously I haven’t done that. So we will start fresh from here.

About two and a half weeks ago, my two lovely friends Becca and Meghan arrived. It was late one Sunday morning, I had just gone to the street market and had made brunch with a friend when we set out to go downtown. I grabbed my phone and noticed that I had a voice-mail. My very first one in France! In essence: “Katieeeee…..we are here. At a bar. By the train station. It is 11am and we are drinking beer. The bartender let us call you. I think you can call us back on this number. He is very nice. Pleeeease come find us.” And that was the beginning of their stay here. We have gone to the beach, poked at jelly fish, explored WWII bunkers, played lots of Phase-10, made delicious food, relaxed, gone on adventures, slept a lot, watched movies, bought crazy wigs, shopped at Babou, went on a Parisian Halloween adventure, stayed in bed for almost a whole day, got shaky in the worst club ever, laughed so much, reenacted SNL skits, eaten a lot of chaussons aux pommes, and so on and so on. This weekend will be Becca’s last, she is leaving us to go home! We will return to Paris again, this time to see Andrew Bird in concert. 

It has been really nice to have them here. I had been here exactly a month when they got here, and in that month I had spent a lot of time alone with myself. I have always enjoyed time alone, to some extent. And going into this I knew that there would be a lot of time alone. But with my bag getting lost and my arrival not being what I expected it to be, I was starting to get very lonely. They came at the perfect time! And now that they have been here, I will be so very sad to see them go. They have made it feel like home for me.