New Friends

             We had a long weekend, so we took advantage of it. On Sunday we hiked up a hill to a church. From the top of the hill you can see over the city. There are fountains, grass and trees, which is a nice break from the city. The church is called Basilique du Sacre Coeur de Montmartre. We got to walk around the inside it was beautiful. The church reminded me of a small-scale simplified version of Notre Dame. After you can pay 5 Euros to go to the top where there is a small balcony. It was 300 stairs spiraled all the way up. Once we were up there the view was breath taking. The next day Rachael and I went to the Eiffel Tower. We went all the way to the top. I think I took a million pictures. Being able to look out over the entire city was amazing!  It was one of my favorite things I have done here. One thing we still have to do is see the light show at nighttime.  The day before we went a man jumped off of the first level of the tower to a half pipe below on roller blades.

            On the second week we met a exchange student from London. We decided to meet up as a group and all go to dinner. We went to a French restaurant in Bastille, which is the place to go; Bastille that is. Some of the kids got a duck thigh, which was very tender and quite good. Another dish was chicken in coco milk and crumbles. After that we walked around the city. There was a big protest, which was kind of crazy, and there were tons of people all sleeping on the sidewalk and walking around asking for money. It was a fun night. There ended up being 1 person from the U.K., 1 from Canada, 2 from Spain and 2 from America. We got talking about perceptions of one another and it was interesting to hear everyone’s point of view.

XOXO, Chelsea