Aix-en-Provence, j'y suis arrivee enfin! Okay, since I'm obviously residing here, it's not really a travel stop, but first city in France on Le Grand Tour apart from Charles de Gaulle airport so that deserves a post. I got situated, I love my apartment it's very cute and sunny, and right off Cours Mirabeaux, the main drag here in Aix. Aix is beautiful (bien sur) and lo and behold I actually managed to carry on conversations in French yesterday, very good. Tried to meet everyone in the program ( there's thirty-two of us) and most people were super jetlagged and tired but it looks like a "good group" as they say. I met my french roomie and the french tutors and after eating crepes with Nutella for dinner we went out for a drink- can you say college-y town? The entire nightlife is European bars and clubs and music. Already went to Monoprix to buy baguette, cheese, fruits, and chocolate, the french staples (and Haribo Fraises Tagada, which no one knew of yesterday at dinner so I'll have to buy them some today, they're like these delicious marshmallows covered in sugar and they taste like strawberries.) So no that I've unpacked and walked around and have a stable internet source, all's well. Though I will say it was rough going yesterday on the TGV, I think I got train-sick for a while there.
So now it's l'heure pour the tour of the town, then dinner with the group, tomorrow academic orientation and such. I'll be back for the next adventure (which is actually tomorrow, we're going to Cassis-deja vu from my senior year trip when we went there too!)
PS- as to the title of this post, the number one song on French charts is Beggin' by Madcon (it's in English but not on American Itunes). I find this extremely amusing because...all you Jersey Boy fans....it's a remake of the Four Seasons Beggin' from 1967!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
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