Ma Maison

So I realized while getting off of the RER (one of many types of public trains in Paris) that I've not yet shown off where I'm living whilst abroad. Here is a visual tour of part of the Cite-Universitaire de Paris.



This is the park across the street from the Cite-U.












Another picture from inside the park.







This is my local basketbo' court (which I've not balled at yet).
Also in this picture is a kitten that is featured in one of the videos at the bottom of the page.











The US house here (not where I am living).

















This is the main gate of the Cite-U. Classy, eh?
















The International Building. This is where the cafe, restaurant,
pool, and theater are (when it's not August when Paris and most of the things in it close down).

This is the view from the cafe's terrace behind the building.

This is a view of the back of the building from afar.

This is just about my favorite building that I've seen here, guess what country it's for.

My building.

A close-up of said building.

This is our kitchen, I have used it precisely one time thus far.

This is the view from the kitchen's terrace, off on the right is the RER station, which is across from the main entrance. Down that median in the middle is a tram that goes down to Porte d'Orlean, where the Metro stops. Between those three, we can hit every form of railway in Paris very easily.

Here is a view of our room. I had another, but it seems to have disappeared, and if I import it again it will take way too long to reformat. It's pretty spacious, as you can see.

As promised, below is a video of first the kitten from the park, and then a realization of a Mitch Hedburg joke of yore that I noticed whilst on the Metro today. If you can't see the youTube videos, hit up the site directly. I feel like I had something else to report, but I can't remember it. My bad. I bought Chee a present, so now I've got Juice, Goulet, and Chee covered, but am still lacking a gift for Chase or anyone else who requests one.

I might think of more later, but now I need to continue working on a project. I hope all is well at home, I have been watching Michael Phelps occasionally and it looks like we're doing pretty decently in the Olympics (despite China beating us for gold medals :-/ )

'Merica!

-Joel

p.s. it's really creepy that in the 20 min between uploading those videos and pasting them into this page there have already been 4 hits on both.