Real Life

I finally moved into my appartment on the weekend. It is great and I feel really at home there. The place is quite big and really nice and my flatmate seems really friendly. The first morning she bought croissants, fruit, yohgurt and bread for breakfast for both of us and her boyfriend who had stayed the night. They are both really nice and speak english well. They have gone away together for a holiday for about a week but I think they will be both be around alot once they get back, which is great, and we are going to try speak in french most of the time. So hopefully that will help my french improve alot.

I have also started an intensive french course at Alliance Francais. I started today and it was really good. The teacher is really nice and so is everyone in the class and we are only allowed to speak french, which is great.

I also openned a bank account today, which i feared might have been hard, but was actually easy, although I did have to make an appointment in advance and have a meeting with the branch manager. But it all went well and I managed to do the whole thing in french, including making the appointment over the phone, which I usually find very difficult.

So I feel now like I have started my 'real life' in Paris and so far it is going really well. I feel quite at home here now, I pretty much know my way around the city now and have the metro completely sorted, and basically I have the hang of how most things work now.

Tomorrow is my birthday and I am going out to a restaurant for a real french meal. I hope there will be some vege stuff there! I think there will only be about five of us as I dont really know alot of people here yet, but i think that I am doing OK after only a few weeks.