Je suis ici!

So I made it! After two flights, from Cle to Det to Paris, worth about 15 hours of travel time, I arrived in Paris at the Charles de Gaulle Aeroport. Ctown to Det was pretty short, only about 20 minutes. While I was waiting for my flight to Paris, I thought I'd try and see if I could pick out Americans vs French waiting for our Air France flight. I must admit, I failed miserably. The only people I successfully picked out (after seeing people's passports upon boarding), were a middle-aged couple, with the man dressed in a hawaiian shirt and the woman reading a Rick Steve's book on Paris-obviously American.

I was pretty impressed with our flight to Paris too-not too bad food, and we each had our individual tv sets to watch movies on demand-quite different from what I experienced when I was little, and you can obviously tell I'm a bit nerdy and easily amused by cool new stuff!

Everything was simple at CDG too-just a simple stamp of the passport and then I headed down to the train station to catch the high speed train to Tours. I ran into three other girls from our program there, so we all stuck together and made it on the train, after composter nos billets!

We then had to catch a connector train (about 5 minutes) from the outside station to downtown Tours, and we almost missed it-I had to get pulled on by one of the girls as the door closed in on my backpack-just made it. We saw more Hoyas from our group at the station, and a bunch of us wandered down to our hotel, asking a bunch of people for help along the way, many of whom didn't know the streets we were talking about (which is NOT a sign of how well we speak French, I thank you!).

Sleep ensued, a bit of dinner and intro, and then a bunch of us walked around the city and got some drinks. Lots of fun, and I could write a ton more, but more sleep is upon me, so I must go...

Peace and love to all!