Hi all!
I've not too much time today sitting in the internet café, especially considering that the keyboard layout is different and it takes forever to type certain simple words - if you find some q's instead of a's, for example - well, that's because they're switched =).
Saying that this place is beautiful would be grossly understating the truth. The thing that surprised me the most so far, interestingly enough, was the water at the beach. You know how city beaches are always crowded and the water's all murky and suspicious-looking? Well, here it happens to be that exact aquamarine color that you see on tropical island postcards - and transparent to the point that you can not only see your own feet, but also the rocks on the bottom several meters underneath. This is partly because the beach has no sand (it's completely covered with pebbles), but whatever the reason, it looks almost unreal.
I haven't met my roommates yet, since they're only supposed to arrive today, but the other people on the program all seem exceptionally nice. There's this guy Brad who absolutely refuses to speak English in France and shames the rest of us into taking our own dusty Fench out of the closet, brushing it up and trying to regain some control over it. For now we look like a bunch of idiots strolling down the street and using wild and sometimes very questionable gestures as we try to explain words we don't know/remember without reserving to English.
The apartment is on the fifth and last floor of a very French building that must be over a hundred years old. An elevator was recently installed there, but the thing is actually somewhat intimidating. It seems that the French in general have a thing for really REALLY small elevators, but the one at our place beats anything I've seen so far. Its official capacity is four persons; I don't know how the designers envisioned that happening. Maybe if two people curl up on the floor and the other two stand of them? But then again, the ceiling is not that high either...
Anyways, I have to run, but will try to write something else when I get a chance... Miss you all!
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I wish I could go swim there! I saw the pictures mom got from your supervisor or something and it looks gorgeous!!!!! Are the waves big?
I'm sure I would die if I had to use only French, but then again your French is much better than mine...
Hope you like your room mates!
<3 Vera
PS. Do you actually use the elevator? =P
PPS. When are you getting your own internet?
PPPS. I miss you already!
Awww Your sister is tres adorable! We miss you here at CP as well, and I think I would like it much much better here if we had clean aquamarine waters not far from campus. Seriously... Maybe the small elevators are to encourage people to take the stairs? A hotel we stayed in in Paris also had the world's smallest elevator, but I think it was bigger than the one you described. Everything here is well. Had lunch with Sam. Elyse has corneal ulcers and we're hoping she'll be okay. Life's an adventure. Hope your's is bright and wonderful over in Nice!
Privet :)))) You'll probably be going to the beach more than me which is funny since I'm in a country where everyone lives right on the coast. You must post pictures of your very French apartment! I saw the pretty pictures your volunteer coordinator sent to your parents and I'm eagerly awaiting more updates, so exciting! Aaaah you're in French-land!
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