Nous Avons Un Apartement!

Bonnes Nouvelles!! Nous avons un apartement a Paris!

Thanks to mon amie magnifique and her mere, we are the proud renters of un apartement in Le Marais! Close to Le Place des Vosges, Musee Picasso, et Maison de Victor Hugo! Home to one of the most interesting streets, the famous rue des Francs-Bourgeois, one of the rare streets of Paris completely open on Sunday, and know for fabulous boutiques! Oh la la!
Caroline and her mother were kind enough to go to Paris last weekend, and spend the day looking at apartments after learning the school accomodations were less than promising. A few apartments into the search, they stumbeled upon l'apartement parfait and volia!

2 bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, fully furnished! And, apparently the style of the molding inside is called "patisserie" because that is what all the patisseries have! It will be like LIVING in a patisserie! What more could a blonde parisienne want! All my parisienne dreams are coming true and I am not even there yet!

2 weeks from today I will wake up in Paris! I will have already had un crossiant et cafe and will be strolling les rues, or perhaps at the Paris Plague! It seems quite surreal still at this point. I have been dreaming of studying in Paris since I was 10. There are simply not words to describe my excitement and how completely lucky and blessed I feel that my dream will soon be a reality.
I cannot wait to see les photos of the place! Caroline says she has taken about one hundred, so I am anxiously awaiting them! The only triste thing is that there is no oven in our apartement. Finding a cheap apartement with an oven is next to impossible, so I will not be able to bake while I am in France. But I do not think I will be at a loss for delicious treats. The awful "grocery store cakes" and "boxed cakes" which people in America feel are acceptable desserts, do not exist in Paris. The idea is really absurd and should be done away with completely. If you do not have the desire or skill to make a cake from scratch and relish in it's moist delight, or at least seek someone who can bake to provide it for you, then you have no business eating cake. The same goes for frosting. But my point was, I am more than confident that French desserts will suffice while I cannot bake for myself.