Paris - Week 1

So I realize that I haven't posted anything about France and I've been here almost a week. Hmm, maybe because it has been crazy, but you probably figured that one out. Staying at the hotel the first two nights really kind of sucked. You can't really relax in a hotel, it doesn't feel like you can settle in. I always feel slightly in limbo in hotels. It was nice when we finally made it to our host homes. My roommate and I have the cutest little french lady as our host. She speaks mostly french to us, except when we really can't figure out what she is saying.
The French is coming along, slowly. My teacher spent about an hour with me going over pronunciation. That was helpful. I'm not very good at talking. It's a little sad. My teacher also asked how I was doing with the reading because I probably have the least experience reading at the level we are reading at. Fortunately I have a few tricks that help me understand the text. (Yeah, that would be reading the text in English either before or after).
Ok, it was definately a surreal feeling walking up to this. I honestly never thought I would get to see the Eiffle Tower in person. So surreal.



Yeah, and this is looking up from underneath the Tower.



We didn't go up. We almost walked up the stairs, but we went on Sunday and we decided we would come another time when we weren't all in our church shoes.