Friday, December 30, 2011

French Showers

So I finally arrived to Paris yesterday! I can't believe I'm actually here, it feels so weird. I woke up this morning and looked out my window and couldn't believe I was waking up to this city. Well technically I'm not in Paris but I am in a suburb that is right across the peripherique so it's super close.
I arrived yesterday around 11:30 am even though my flight was supposed to have arrived at 8:30 am. There was a 3 hour delay in my flight, it was supposed to leave at 7:55pm but it ended up taking off around 11:30 almost midnight. But alas I am here safe and sound.
I'm happy with my family, the mom is super nice and sweet and the kids are really cute, they seem to like me.
There's not much to tell since I didn't do much yesterday, except that I found out that I will not be taking a very comfortable shower for the 7 months I'll be staying in. The shower is so inconvenient! I don't know why they make them like that, maybe it's why people say that french people don't take showers so often (I know it's such a big stereotype).
The shower doesn't have a curtain, it just has this glass that is next to the shower head, it doesn't even cover the whole shower so water can easily fall out of the shower. Then there's the shower head it is not attached to the wall. It's those types of shower that has a handle, but the spot where you can place the shower isn't on the wall so it sprays the water all over your body, no I have to hold the handle and put it on top of my head! It was so hard to take a shower! I had to put down the shower head put some shampoo on, and then get the shower head again and hold it over my head with one hand and then rinse my hair with the other. Then I had to do the same for my conditioner and body. It was also annoying because I got cold in-between those moments where I put the shower head down to shampoo my hair and so on. Plus I felt really exposed since the shower felt so open.
I'm probably going to have to figure out a system on how to properly take a shower and take short showers since I don't want to get so cold!

Anyways I'm gonna go take a nap,I am so exhausted even though it's just 2 pm here. Last night I went to bed at 8 pm! I cannot remember when was the last time I went to bed so early, probably when I was in elementary. But I woke up 2 times in the middle of the night, full of energy lol. I need to rest now so I don't start passing out again when we go to the champs elysees later on to see all the pretty lights they decorate the champs in.

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