Paris Orientation

Bonjour tout le monde,

Paris orientation has been crazy. There are people from USA, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Hungary, Holland, Denmark, Russia, Norway, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Costa Rica, Columbia, Argentina, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ghana and many more I just can't think of them!  It's so fun because all these kids can speak english but they also speak their native language and it's so the place where we are staying is just this massive room filled with a ton of kids speaking different languages but some how we all manage to communicate and understand each other.

STORY TIME/ EMBARRASSING GRACEISM:
Yesterday (friday) was the day that everyone was arriving at the hostel, so there was just a constant flow of more people arriving as the day went on. The Americans were pretty much the first people to arrive so we met everyone as they came in.

After a couple hours had passed and the latin american countries had started to arrive I heard about this one girl from Costa Rica that didn't speak ANY english. Pretty much everyone spoke at least a little english so we were all helping each other out when we were talking, but this one girl was sitting all by her self at table and wasn't talking to anyone. So me being my smart self, I decided that I was going to use the 2 years of spanish knowledge that I possess to talk to her. LOL!!!! It was painfully awful! hahaha! We actually did talk for like 30 minutes but it was full of awkward silence and me trying to remember enough spanish to form coherent sentences! I was slightly impressed with myself though because I managed to find out her name, her age, where in costa rica she is from, where she is going in France, how many siblings she has at home and in France and I told her that I liked her nails!:) They were very pretty! I also got her to get up and go get a coffee with me and then she sat down with a bigger group of people! So all in all my brain was exhausted from trying to speak a foreign language and I managed to not use french which is the language I needed to be speaking! But I'm counting that experience as a major success and I'm sure Mrs. Gutierrez and Mrs. Sisk would be proud! hahaha.


Last night was also super fun because this guy from columbia, named Paulo, plays the guitar really well. So basically all the italians and americans were hanging out and he started playing his guitar and we all chose songs that he could play and we knew and we all just sang together while he played the guitar! It was AWESOME! Everyone joined in and it was like 300 exchange students from all over singing together and clapping and laughing and it was just sooo fun and amazing to see! I'm not doing it justice in my description but I took a video that y'all can see when I get home!

Currently Marla is asleep in my bed and I'm about to join her because JET LAG IS A VERY REAL THING! I am exhausted and I even slept like 8 hours and took a 2 hour nap yesterday before dinner! Its insane how tired I feel. I'm really excited because in about an 1hr 30min we get to go on our bus tour of paris so ill be posting those pics soon probably. Okay I can't think of anything else at the moment!

Au revoir lovelies, (not sure if that spelled right and my google is in french so... )
Grace :)