first time in paris

I was in transit for 22 hours to get to Paris. Not ideal.

So Sunday I finally did laundry, packed, did a long run, and locked up. I headed into Copenhagen, had to stop at school to print ticket stff--because Ryan air is that obnoxious.I had to search for ,y bus; but was lucky enough to find it 15 minutes ahead of ti,e. Plenty of seats, so I grqbbed one to myself near the middle: away from the crying baby not near the bathroom. I feel right asleep. two hours later we make a stop, more people get on i get a seat partner. not just any seat partner, oh no, one that drives me slowly insqne.

He gets on, choses to sit with me-fine. then his mother comes on board shoves stuff in the seat, gets off. then he seats down on the edge of the seat the edge nearest me. so now im plastered to the window. then he waves goodbye, almost knocking me out in the process. then he stays that close. i turn and motion to the contour of the seat. he scouts over for 30 secs and then i get his elbow in my ribs. this goes on for a fez ,inutes. i ,ove over and fall asleep. i wake up to his whole body leaning into ,my seat. I tell him "im s,all but not that small", and get him to move over... you get the icture. the next bus stop is at 2; i move. i must say i was really too close to snapping at him.

get to stockholm central station at 630, head to stockholm airport for 4 hours. why i sit okay to put a box with three wall, but an open front in the middle of an airport and let people smoke okay? there wasn't a door, nothing to block the smoke. fly to paris, outside the city. take an hour bus ride into the city? then got to figure out the metro system on the fly. qa rando, girl gave me metro passes, very nice. find my way to the trains, manage to find the correct house. miracle. soo hungry because in 22 hours all i ate was almonds, bowl of cereal, and an apple.

the family that i am staying with lives 15 ,inutes from paris. two kids, the girl is a freshman--french eq.- in high school, the son is a senior-like my younger brother . they are all very nice. the house is very neat; i am staying in a study room lined in books. how perfect right?

today i slept in till a few before 10 and then headed into the city within the hour. spent all day walking around. i the rain held off until my walk home from the metro. i even had sun for a bit.

paris is beautiful; i saw so,e of the major sites like the arc de triu,p, notre dome; louvre, any ,many more.my plan was to spend the day in the louvre but it is closed on tuesdats, so either wed or thursday. my legs are tired, so im going to run in the am tomorrow so my legs dont give out on me. i did meat some nice women on the train home-got to use my broken spanish. sorry if the sentances are short-french keyboards and me are not a good combination. thats why the ms are ,s.

okay update again soon.