monsieur, monsieur, parlez-vous anglais? non, monsieur

first off. wow.

i really don't know french. i think i've been taking english in a french accent for the past 8 years?

well, not quite that bad but parisians do speak super fast.

i guess since this, being the first "post" about my voyage to paris, i'll start with my trip to the airport.

the events leading towards packing the car and eventually newark went incredibly smooth. INCREDIBLY PROBLEM FREE I SAY. that is not normal for the chens. i repeat, ......unheard of. with everything packed nicely, and as i drive down reids hill road (for those of you that knows marlboro), i reached the turn pick. it was sunday afternoon at 3:00 pm and the turnpike did not move at all. after the whole family discussed the fact that nothing really urgent occurred, we the worst traffic that we've ever seen. so after soon panicking and blaming each other on which way to take towards newark, mother chen lead my sister towards newark and we safely arrived at 5 for my 7'o clock flight.


the flight was air france and it was surprisingly awesome unlike what sophie demartine has said. food wasn't great but for airplane food, it was decent. the man next to me was french and took my figaro after i fell asleep watching "coco avant chanel" on the plane.

after a few hours of sitting aimlessly on the plane, i finally arrived.

cdg was underwhelming for paris, but i knew that already after my hotel california adventure avec feldstein, de Feo , et hartney. once i was at cdg, i ran with my baggages towards the taxi station and took a cab.
(disclaimer: i didn't take the rer b to cite because i had two large suitcases, a nebulizer, my chrome bag, and another rollie suitcase)

back to my story eh....


so then i got into paris finally at 10:30 am, after hitting intense paris rush hour and dropping 65 euros on a cab when i could've otherwise spent around 5 euros getting into the cite.

while not justified, i was glad i took a cab.

after settling in, the sciences po manner began.

since explaining the whole nightmare over here would just make me relive this, i will give you the highlights.

first off,

sciences po does not:

1.) tell you where to go for your orientation.

2.) explain to you the date to events when they have given you the location and time.

3.) let you "add/drop" classes even during the frantic registration hour.

one might ask, what happens if you typed your CRNs wrong? tough luck.


well. im just stressed after the registration fail.

other than that.


paris is awesome!