Notre Dame de Paris
Today Christine and I went to Paris to welcome and assist the students that are enrolled in the Paris portion of the program. Those of you that saw the video I put out from our last trip to Paris may remember that it was a whirlwind tour that we squeezed into 3 days. Compared with the time frame that Christine had to work with the Aix-en-Provence students, the Paris students were looking at an similarly expedited experience. Where the students in Aix’ had two weeks to settle in, the students in Paris had four days to get acclimated and hopefully find a place to live. This meant that Christine was equally busy assisting the students, and I was left to explore Paris on my own during the day and with Christine during the evenings.
We stayed at an apart-hotel which is a sort of long-stay hotel where the rooms include a small kitchenette, so you don’t have to eat out if you don’t want to. We were a couple of subway trains away from the office, so depending on the time of day and the direction chosen out the front of the hotel, you could make it to the office in about 20 minutes. I went down to the office with Christine to meet her associates and learned that I could help them out in the office as their IT guy had recently gone back to the states, and their new Macs were having some trouble communicating with the networked printer.
Point Cap dispenser (ok it's a Durex dispenser)
So instead of beating our feet to a pulp and running back and forth across Paris, Christine was trying to a recover from a cold that was just starting to rear its ugly head in my throat. I was able to take some time to sleep off the worst of it, but Christine had to struggle with virus throughout our stay in Paris and even back to Aix-en-Provence. I did get to start a couple of photo projects that I will pursue throughout the year and even though I have not posted any of the pictures, if the project turns out I will happily share the photos with you. Which brings me back to the subject of the Gallery. I have posted a lot of photosfrom my travels here in France to the gallery with the hope that I could share with you and possibly have you share some with me. Let me say that it is not required for you to put your own pictures up, but it is required that you join the gallery to view the pictures so please take a moment to sign up and take a look. It does not cost anything and I am not using any of the information for advertising or any other targeted purpose other than to share photos. The gallery simply lets me see how many times the photos are viewed and makes it possible for you to rate and comment on them at the same time. I guess that’s enough about that. How about it? It’s all about catching up…so until next time take care y’all.
-G