Day 7 in the City of Love

Passing out last night didn't happen.   I ended up organizing a bit & then skyping for quite a while.  I think I was up till 4 or so.  The sirens going by outside definitely didn't help at all.  But oh well.  It was nice to talk to people back home, or mostly a person.  Even though I had my face as close to the computer as I could and was whispering, yet somehow my host woke up.  I felt bad.  But the time difference does make it hard, especially with a host that is such a light sleeper.  She told Sasha this morning, however, that I shouldn't feel bad because she wasn't mad or anything and she thinks she'll get ear plugs because the two of us do stay up pretty late.  I would feel bad, but she sleeps in the living room because she chooses to give up both of the bed rooms to foreign students.  We do try our best to be as quiet as possible.

When I finally got out of bed it wasn't long before Sasha got home and we made breakfast.  Then we were so tired that we went BACK to bed for like an hour and a half.  I think we could have slept all day but we really did want to see the Luvre today.  It's going to take us many visits to get through it so it was nice to get started on that.  We did get to see the Mona Lisa & the Venus de Milo which was very cool.  It didn't actually seem like we could possibly be standing in front of them.  I need to go to Italy so I can see David.  I knew the Luvre was big, but I mean really, it's HUGE.  Madame Attaway told us how long it would take if you spent 30 seconds at every piece, but I can't remember the number.  Either way, a really long time.  It'll be nice to get lost in there on the many rainy days to come.

Today was a short day since we slept most of it, but we definitely needed the rest after this week.  Adapting to a new culture is exhausting, especially one with 1 million steps to get anywhere. My legs are going to be SO in shape by the end of this. And like Stephen and I were saying, we're not even going to know what it means to drive a car.

Dinner was quick, we had some sort of beans, zucchini, salad, and bread.  It was delicious and I don't think I've ever eaten so fast...was definitely starving.  And now it's off to bed so I can go get my books tomorrow and figure out the notebook situation for class since apparently we can't have laptops. Hmm.

Au Revoir <3 :)