More observations

-Poodles!
-French men are dapper dressers. I feel like dapper is really just the only appropriate word here for some reason.
-I don't think restaurants believe in using heat--not a single one!
-Peanut butter is obscenely expensive. As in, even more so than everything else
-It's so easy to pick out an American person without them even speaking. I'm trying to blend in as much as possible clothes- and mannerism-wise, but it's so damn hard not to smile.  In all seriousness though, it's true that French women don't really show emotion, just walk straight with purpose and just enough of that high-school bitchy look to appear chic.  I'll master it one day.

Oh, and hey mom! I forgot to tell you earlier, but I figure you'd enjoy this little tidbit that I learned at orientation: Paris only has 50 murders/year (about 1/3 of DC's murder rate), with most of them being for "gang related crime." Guns aren't sold or permitted, and it's generally safer inside the city limits than it is in the suburbs surrounding it (with the exception of Versailles and those places). Does that make you feel better? :)