i actually live here!

Yesterday Chloe and I moved in with our host family. My new home for the next month is a little apartment in the 15th arrondisement, not far from the Eiffel Tower. The apartment is the cutest thing ever, its full of books and paintings and cute little decorations. For meals we sit on little stools around the table in the kitchen, which is tiny, and our bathroom sink is probably half the size of a sink in an airplane bathroom. I have my own room and I absolutely love it. Next to my cute little desk is a big window that looks out into a garden (no view of the Eiffel Tower but I'll take it). I don't have any papers to put on my bulletin board yet so I used it to organize my necklaces. There's also no closet in my room so I have a rack with a bunch of hangers and a cute little hutch to keep my clothes. I love the white bedding, its so clean and simple. The pillows may take a little getting used to because they are big and square. There are also a couple antique chairs so that if I have friends over they can sit down I guess. This place definitely feels like home and I don't even want to think about how sad I will be to leave!

Our host mom is really nice, when we arrived she came down and helped us carry up our luggage and then sat us down for some juice in the kitchen and got to know us a little bit. Then after we finished unpacking she showed us the nearest metro stop and took us to the grocery store to get our shampoo and conditioner. We had a few little mishaps with the internet, Madame wrote down the wifi password for us but Chloe and I could not read her writing at all, then when we went to ask her what it said she had no idea either. Then later her laptop was not connecting to the right network for some reason, and she asked us to help her fix it. However we have never really learned any French computer vocabulary, (words like router,  DNS server, etc.) so Madame would try to explain the words we didn't know but since she doesn't use computers very often she didn't really know what they meant either. And her computer was running an older version of windows that neither of us was familiar with. It was like three blind monkeys trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle. We had assumed that the internet was working fine on our computers since it had been before, but then I just thought to double check and it turns out the problem was not her laptop, it was the router so we restarted it and everything worked fine after that.
We haven't met our host father yet because he works late and we go to bed early. I am not sure if I am still jet lagged or if I am just tired from all the walking around. I had so much fun on our first official walking tour today. I learned a lot of interesting things about the history of Paris and took lots of pictures :) So many in fact that y'all are going to have to wait for me to edit them before I can post about my day today. Hope all is well for everyone back in the US!
xoxo Heather