Abandonment issues!

Well, this is the first morning that I've woken up in my room alone so far because the 'fam' left yesterday evening at around 7pm. . . . Holly and I are now totally on our own here, in an apartment of our own, in a foreign country! It's a little scary, but mostly exciting because I've had a few days to settle in with me parentals and they took most of the worry and anxiety away, so now we have exploring to look forward to! Last night, as soon as we'd waved the Ford Galaxy out of sight, Holly suggested that we go for a walk down to the riverbank and get a drink in a traditionally French café.

So we did :o)

. . . and we found ourselves in the same café that my Ma & Pa had taken us to on the very first day there! The waiter recognised us and we told him (In French!) that we were here for 4 months to study at the Sorbonne so wanted to do the touristy thing for a while. He grinned at us and acted suitably impressed to hear we are gonna be students at the Sorbonne, and proceeded to tell us how fantastic the university is. It would appear that the French are extremely proud of their University and ready to tell anybody who will listen.

I think they have good reason to be proud as it is a beautiful building!

(NB. Please ignore French woman on Bicycle who insisted on starring in an otherwise decent photograph!)

We need to go and register as students at this awesome building at some point over the next week, which may involve some drastic photography for Student ID cards. . . . . Uh oh! May be posting a horrid pic of that later on then, so you can all have a good laugh!

Anyways, when we left the apartment last night, we decided to have a lil look at the surrounding area on our way through to the River Seine. Our apartment is bang in the middle of the French equivalent to Chinatown! I'm not kidding! When you leave our building, the first thing you see is a line of Chinese bag shops and jewellers, oh, and a shop with the best name in the world. . .

(NB. Pic taken from our livingroom window)
Just to prove to you how childish we are, (if the previous pic wasn't enough proof already!) on our journey through la ville de Chine (China town) we had to stop to take this photo. . .

How cool are we. Posing with a can of Cock. On a more adult note: Dad, I found you some frozen frogs legs. Not gonna buy them. Call me un-adventurous if you must, but this looked to me like a bag of roadkill.

Sorry it's a bit of a sucky, unclear picture but I was in a hurry. We were getting some funny looks from the Chinese shop assistants. Can you blame them?! We were taking photos of their frozen food section!

Anyways must be off now, gonna cook myself some peas for lunch. C'est la vie etudiante! Such is student life :o)
Will post again soon! xxxx