Oh Lawd

Is dat a 300 meter flagpole?

So I continued my first week here trying not to be a tourist... and I very nearly succeeded. I did figure out that you can look like LESS of a tourist if you dress comme un Français (l'escharpe est essentiel) and look supremely bored with everything you see, as if you were merely hired to take pictures of the monuments and you hate the fact that you had to stoop to this level to pay the rent. Of course this façade gets exponentially harder to maintain if you're with other people, and if they speak even one phrase of English it completely shatters.

Right now we're all sitting in the lobby of the FIAP waiting for our families to arrive. I'm nervous, but also excited. I'm ready to actually experience foreign language immersion, instead of having this little refuge of English to go back to every night.