Mon Château à Paris

Rue Monsieur le Prince, in the heart of the Latin Quarter: my new home-away-from-home.  Kelsey, Simone and I have quite the aesthetically-pleasing apartment on the 4th and 5th floors of our building.  Our first floor consists of a living room, dining area and kitchen, which are all beautiful and well-equipped (new appliances, big screen TV, comfy couches), and we were one of the lucky apartments that had WiFi up and running upon our arrival.  We have one and a half bathrooms, and our downstairs bathroom is beautiful.  It has a gorgeous shower and the shower head is one of those rain ones, so it’s really relaxing.  We also have a heated towel rack, which is pretty nice when it’s cold out and you can’t seem to warm up.  To get to our second floor, you have to take an absurdly dangerous spiral staircase up, which is difficult enough when sober…

Our bedroom situation is less than ideal.  There is one master bedroom that has the largest bed I have ever seen in my entire life.  I was informed that it’s called a ‘California king?’  I hear a man is coming at some point to remove this mattress and take the frame apart, and two beds will be put in there instead, which I guess will be nice.  And then there’s this sort of attic/loft/Anne Frank hideout thing up a ladder that has a ceiling so low that I can’t stand up…which ended up being my ‘bedroom,’ if you can call it that.  I have one outlet far away from my mattress (because it’s only a mattress, resting royally on the floor), no heater, and big wooden beams running across the middle of the room so that I have to crouch to get from one part to the other.  Oh and I also have no storage space, and may or may not have to live out of my suitcase for five and a half months…

But hey, who am I to complain?!  I’m living in THE happening district of one of the greatest cities in the world for half of a year!  I’ve wanted to do this all my life, and I’m so glad it’s finally happening.  It’s surreal…and I don’t think it has really hit me yet.  I’m going to go explore the neighborhood and see what fabulous things I’m living near and decide which places I will be frequenting.

Also, note that I have begun a “statistique” section in the sidebar; I will be keeping track of how many crepes and baguettes I consume, how many bottles of wine I purchase, and how many cafés and countries I visit.  It should be interesting…anyone willing to wager a bet on some numbers?