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oh how I love saturdays! sleeping in today was soooo nice. I feel rested for the first time this week! For breakfast I had a smoothie and toast with Nutella. I could honestly live off Nutella. Well, Nutella and French cheese. :) oh how i love them. soooo delicious. Its crazy how much I look forward to meals here. I love waking up because I know I get to have Nutella for breakfast, I love lunch becasue I know I get to eat fromage, and I love dinner because I know that I get to eat a delicious dessert after. I haven't disliked anything that I've eatten so far! Boy do the French know how to eat. But they never over eat I've noticed. Its a good habit to have- they stop eathing because they are stuffed.

Anyway, after breakfast I went to the bank with Patrice and I opened up a french bank account! I can't believe I am going to be living here long enough to have a bank account. Crazy to think about. After the bank, Isabelle taught me how to play Chinese Checkers which was fun! I've always wanted to know how to play it! Plus, I'm proud of myself for being able to understand her french instructions! :)

At around 4ish, I went to Paris with the same girls as last weekend aka my first french friends ;) haha. It was fun! How could Paris not be fun? We didn't much sight seeing in today because we weren't there very long, but I got to see the Centre Pompidou and the Forum des Halles (a really cool shopping mall). We just sort of just meandered around the quartier and watched a lot of the street performers. I love big cities because even just walking around is entertaining! I am really grateful that the girls invite me to do things on the weekends! They are really helping me integrate myself. :) The language barrier is still really difficult for me to work through! Its hard when I'm with them, or any group of French people because I feel a little bit like an outsider since I can't understand most of the conversation. Its kind of awkward at times because they will be talking and then start laughing really hard and I have no idea whats going on so I end up being the only one not laughing... But I realize this is just a part of being a foreign exchange student! I just need to give it time :)

Anywho, after my evening in Paris, I came home and started working on the presentation I have to give to my Rotary club here. I have to talk about the USA, Idaho, Twin Falls, my family, my school, and other things about me--- ALL in French. ohh boy. haha I'm a little nervous! Hopefully they can kind of understand what I'm saying despite my dreadful accent haha. The powerpoint is coming a long nicely though! so thats good.

You will never guess what time we ate dinner tonight... 9:00pm! haha isn't that funny? (Mom, I told my host family that sometime you like to eat dinner at 5:30pm and they couldn't believe it) I don't mind it because we usually eat a little afternoon snack so its perfect! The only problem is I don't usually very long after dinner before I go to bed haha. I get tired really easily here. But I think thats normal for exchange students.
Welp, I guess thats about it for the day! :)

bisous!

em

Centre Pompidou- I'm not quite sure why, but there were a lot of people dressed like fruit walking around- Street art out of chalk-yummy! patisserie-