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Traveler Month in Paris !!
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- Jun 5, 2023, 12:48 PM
- ☀️ 24 °C
- Altitude: 62 m
- France Île-de-France Paris Paris 13 Gobelins 48.826855, 2.3536348°49’37” N 2°21’13” E
Day 2
First day of school!!
June 5, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Bonjour!

Today was the first day of school.
I promptly woke up at the early hour of 3am and stared at the ceiling for awhile. Then I ventured down stairs for about 4 shots of espresso. Then I somehow fell back asleep. Off to a great start.

School was good, the metro was scary. I have zero sense of direction so this will be interesting. I am excited for all of our different activities that we have planned. Hopefully I only get on the wrong metro once or twice.

I think I only got yelled at by one French person today, which is an improvement. I would yell at Americans if they were as clueless as me too, so no hard feelings.

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Traveler Month in Paris !!
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- Jun 4, 2023, 6:38 PM
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 77 m
- France Île-de-France Paris Paris 16 Passy 48.866451, 2.2855548°51’59” N 2°17’8” E
Day 1
Arrival
June 4, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Bonjour!

Obviously, the first things you do when you get to Paris is drink wine and go to the Eiffel tower. Today was a very long day. It was great. It’s only been about 7 hours but I really like Paris so far. I am excited to see what else it has in store for me.

I was very surprised by how large the Eiffel tower is in real life. For some reason, it did not look as large to me in photos. This was really interesting because it showed me how everyone can have different subjective experiences based on visual imaging. Your experience in person is probably always going to be different than you expected based on images and stories. This discovery was also definitely influenced by visual acuity. Since we are so close to the Eiffel Tower, it appears larger than if we were looking at it from a distance. It is interesting to see visual acuity in action.

I can't wait to see it sparkle!

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