Exploring the City

Today was a day of exploration. This morning we woke up around 8am and began our day as usual, eating croissants with Nutella and jam. Delicious as always. After breakfast the metro took us to an entirely new area of Paris, where we visited the offices that we will be working at next week. I met Brigitte, an incredibly kind woman who will help guide me through my internship at TG Communications. Although I am a bit nervous about my first few days speaking French in the office, I could not be more excited for this experience. Seeing the area where I will be working and knowing how nice the people are is very comforting. I start at 9am on Monday. After visiting the other internship locations we all headed to the Musée Rodin, home of the famous sculpture Le Penseur. It was very interesting to see all of the statues within the beautiful gardens. We ate lunch at a café, and afterward we returned to the apartment to take naps before gathering for a cup of coffee at Les Deux Magots. Later Sophie, Andrew, and I walked to La Seine to take some pictures near the Louvre. We met up with Mack later on and then ventured back to the apartment to change before dinner. We went to a great restaurant with an Italian student, Francesco, who will be a new junior at St. George's next year. He was with his father and a friend, and we all had a great time talking and laughing over the fantastic meal. The food was great, especially the dessert that I ordered, profiteroles au chocolat (vanilla ice cream in pastries covered in hot chocolate sauce). Mmm delicious! After the meal, our new Italian friends walked us back to our apartment to retire for the night. Tomorrow we will move to a different apartment closer to the internship offices. Overall today was great, and I cannot wait to experience more of Paris within the next few weeks.