Day 27 - Sunday September 6th

I got to sleep in today. Victoria finally made it to Paris - after crazy problems with getting her visa. So all in all, she's here for the next 3 months as a "tourist" and then has to take a weekend trip to Brussels before the rest of the trip. *Here's hoping I can go with *

Me, Allyson, Denise, Andrea, and Victoria walked to Centre Pompidou today for lunch. The Pompidou is famous for having the air ducts, and plastic tubes, and inner workings of a building on the outside as it's architecture. The escalator spans 4 floors and it's all one big long plastic tube on the outside of the building that you go through.

After Lunch Victoria and I hopped in a cab and met the rest of our group at CISP (Centre de International Sejour en Paris) or the youth Hostel. We had a little meet and greet session with our director in Paris - Maria Al Saleem. She's a very motherly and warm blond woman who always addresses us as "love". She constantly is switching from a hardcore American accent to a British accent - and speaks French fluently obviously. She's married to an Arab ambassador and is personally friends with all the people we are working for at our 'stage' or internship and who we are staying with as our home-stays.

My internship is with the French Heritage Society. My boss is a princess. It's in the 7th arrdondissement near the Eiffel Tower. We don't start work until October 4th, but we move into our home-stays this Saturday.

My home-stay is with a professional chef/caterer named Charlotte. She is a single mother of triplets - 10 years old - 1 girl and 2 boys. I live in a room on the 3rd floor of her house, with apparently a very nice view of Paris and of the Eiffel Tower. I'm excited to move in!

We had dinner in the hostel's cafeteria - average caf food, not too good but I still ate it. Afterward, Me, Katie, Kiernan, Eli, Joanne, and Erin went out for drinks. We walked around our "hostel's" area for a bit and then just got drinks and went home. The area around where we're staying isn't very nice. We're on the very southeastern edge of Paris Proper in the 17th. Lots of groups of men just sitting around - lots.

New fun drink "demi-peche" a beer with peach syrup in it. Really sweet but very delish.