Paris I’ve known you for less than a week, and I’m already completely in love with you. Ok fine I had explored our French capital before, but being a visitor vs une vraie parisienne, feels quite different indeed! Et oui, c’est officielle, je suis parisienne oh boy!!!
I’ve been busy since arriving last Friday afternoon.
Busy with lovely things such as discovering our fabulous apartment & gorgeous neighborhood, organizing the book shelves, and spending quality time with my wonderful friends and students Kelsey & Erica who both live à Paris and who both made sure I felt perfectly welcome the very moment I arrived. Merci les filles!!
Premier petit-déjeuner sur mon balcon! Tellement romantique!
Books are here. Book shelves are organized and pretty. I feel better now.
Busy with less exciting (yet necessary) tasks such as bank, po box for French Truly (no more crazy stalker thank you very much), finding a doctor, organizing the UPS delivery, etc.
I have not taken le métro once yet, purposely choosing to walk everywhere, with my forever favorite Depeche Mode song blasting (I know it’s bad but it’s so gooood!) in my ears, enjoying the perfect weather and the mesmerizing Beauty all around me.
This morning I had my first session at my new gym Les Cercles de la Forme with an adorable Brazilian coach and I can hardly wait to go back tomorrow morning and work out with her! Il y a aussi plein de super cours et j’ai envie de tous les essayer là maintenant d’un coup! Bien sûr ce n’est pas possible donc voici ceux que j’ai sélectionnés pour le moment: Poitrine Bras Dos, Abdos Fessiers, Body Pump, Barre au Sol, Pilates, Body Combat, Krav Maga, Body Attack, and Modern Jazz. I have literally signed up for all these, ils sont tous dans mon calendrier youpi!
Beaucoup de personnes sont en vacances en France en août, Paris n’est pas une exception malgré sa taille et son importance, et donc je dois attendre encore un peu pour rechercher les Français passionnants que vous rencontrerez lors de mes French Immersion Courses à Paris! Patience Virginie, patience… j’avoue que ce n’est pas ma plus grande qualité ha!
Life is about falling in love. With men, with women, with places, with music, with ideas, with books, with authors, with streets, with food, with perfumes, with experiences, and for someone like me who lives for Beauty and has so much Love inside of her she doesn’t know what to do with it, Paris is definitely the perfect place. The magnificence & refinement all around are overwhelming and make me want to jump in the air and cry.
I mean look at this! It’s everywhere!!!!!!
Oh and look where my friend Erica took me out for lunch yesterday… regardez le nom de la rue! She didn’t do it on purpose it was pure random. Tellement cool! C’est un signe: Paradis a trouvé son Paradis.
More to come in the next weeks’ blog posts!
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What inspired me to create this French Immersion Course? C’est très simple: how best to improve your French conversation skills than by being in France, surrounded with French culture and French people who will ONLY speak French to you? Yet so many times I have heard visitors express their disappointment at not really being given the chance to practice their French. Why? Because more & more French people, especially in big cities, speak English fairly well and are just so excited to practice their new skills with you! This ends up being nice and comfortable for you but not so satisfying or helpful for improving your French speaking ability! So to fix this and make sure you have the most enjoyable, and at the same time profitable, French learning experience, I decided to create the perfect environment for you by organizing this hands-on French Immersion Course.
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This is the reason why I have created this 7 DAY FULL FRENCH IMMERSION COURSE for you, filled with daily classes & enriching adventures with French people who will only speak French with you. No English! It’s amazing how much you can learn and retain in such a conducive atmosphere in as little as 7 days. Mornings will be dedicated to French language classes and afternoons will be filled with interesting activities such as: visiting local artists or entrepreneurs workshops, meeting with local wine makers and farmers, guided hike in nature, cooking class, painting class, cinema, & museum… all in French!
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