Bonjour from the gourgles

Thanks for the comments, I appreciate that. I’m going to post some more photos as soon as I take some but they surely wont be as good as Owen’s, but then he is a professional photographer, so.

Actually my landlady is a photographer, too. The corridor of the flat I’m living in is covered with pictures, really good ones. And at her place where I’m babysitting you’d have framed photos on the walls. It’s great, I like photography a lot and would like to learn to do it properly too. I was thinking of buying a camera here or something.
As I said, I’m babysitting for my landlady. She has about 1,5 year-old daughter, so it’s easy for me because most of the time the girl just sleeps. The girl is adorable, très jolie as they would say here.

The French is getting better and better. Now that the courses have started I should pick up the language faster, not that I’m not talking French all the time. I actually know more French students than Erasmus students, so I’m communicating mostly in French.
Besides, getting to know people around here is really not that difficult as one would imagine. Do as I do, be really stupid Erasmus student who has no clue about anything and tell that to everyone, and just like that you’ll have plenty of people helping you out. And of course you have to be a bit intruding; in order to meet people you have to start the conversation yourself since there’s so many students and exchange students around here that you aren’t an exotic exception and few would come and talk to you.
On Monday I met some French guys at the university in salle informatique (the only classroom with 9 computers with internet connection for the whole Sorbonne, unbelievable!). I started chatting with them and we ended up into some student bar in Quartier Latin talking about French politics. After six hours I was quite enlightened. ;)

I did hook up with an Erasmus student as well, her name is Anne and she’s from Germany and studies marketing but not in Sorbonne (I can never remember the name of the place). We share the same interests so we have fun together, both prefer bars and pubs instead of clubs so there’s no contradictions in picking up a place to out to.
She’s also interested in photography and joined one photo club at her university. The photo club is actually very famous around here and they’ve won many competitions in photography. They’re also doing trips around Paris and Ile-de-France and to Bretagne for instance. And I’ll be able to come along which sounds great!
On Tuesday we went with Anne to a jazz club and it was so good! The club was in Montemartre, near the legendary Moulin Rouge, it was a small club and the band played downstairs in a cave which means a wine cellar. The atmosphere was really warm and relaxed and the band was excellent.
I’m definitely going to have another round of that jazz club sometime. Not that there wouldn’t be loads to browse through, jazz is one of the essential music phenomena in Paris, there’s lots jazz clubs that have bands playing through the week. It’s great, I love jazz and it doesn’t even cost that much here, there’s free entrance to many bars and the music is good.

Well, I’m going to close up for now, still want to pop into the Musée d’Orsay today. I bought a year ticket to both Musée d’Orsay and Louvre so I have possibility to have proper look at both of them. Happy. :)