Today, was a very big day after months of waiting it was finally time to depart. I flew out of State College, PA airport at 4:30 in the afternoon. I was meeting up with the rest of the group in Philadelphia. It was so hard to say goodbye to everyone, but i knew that everyone was excited for me to have this opportunity, as was i. I had a short lay over in Philly and then we all met up and got on our plane heading for Paris. The flight wasn't bad i got a few hours of sleep, which helped with the time change. We got there with no problems and everyone got their luggage. I was a little nervous that they lost mine because it too forever for it to come off the plane. After getting our luggage we found our way through the airport and met up with the director and one of our professors. We split up into 2 cars and 2 other girls took a taxi to get to our house which was on the other side of the city. We got to drive past a lot of major monuments on our way. Our trip took us about 45 minutes to an hour to get to our house. The house we are staying is very nice its old, but many renovations have been made to it to make it more modern. Every room in the house is unique. I have a room to myself because i am the only guy on this trip. Each room has its own sink and fireplace. We were all ready for a nap after we picked our rooms and got settled, but our director had other ideas. he said we should stay up until at least 8 because if we didn't, then we would be up really late the next night. So after getting settled we went for a walk before dinner. We went into the town of Sceaux where there's a park and in the park is a building called chateau de Sceaux. We walked all around the park before eventually being locked in. there are fences all around the park and it closed at 5:00 PM. we tried various gates to find a way out but we were running out of luck. We spotted someone in the distance and the director ran ahead to talk to them, but they disappeared. Luckily, a few of the girls ran up a side path to check for away out and found a lady that had a swipe key to let us out of the park. After getting out we walked back to the house which was about 2 miles away. We ended up walking about 5 miles today. After our walk we were all exhausted and we snacked on some bread and cheese, before going to bed for the night.
Pictures from the first day
First view of the eiffel tower in the distance during our drive to our house
La maison
My room
park de sceaux that we got locked in at 5 o'clock in the afternoon
Chateau de Sceaux
View of the sky leaving the park
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