Coming out of hibernation

Bonjour!

I'm not sure why today of all days I decided to write a new post. I'm still undecided whether I want to continue writing a blog or not; something that I haven't been able to decide for a few months. That and having a hectic life, believe it or not. My last post was before I moved to Paris for my 7 month stint as an assistante d'anglais in a secondary school. In general, everything is going ok. Now. It was a very intense and gruelling first 3 months getting used to the job, the city and with a heck of a lot of housing problems. Since I became finally settled in January, I've had university work and having fun in Paris to catch up with. I'm getting on with it now (despite another looming essay for univeristy) but I'm still...not, scared, but wary at least, about Paris. I love walking round it and going to the museums and sitting down to have a drink, but the amount of people still overwhelms me a tad. I love city life, but I've never liked London much so I have concluded that perhaps HUGE cities aren't my thing. Brighton, Cardiff...perfect. Smaller, incredibly chilled out places. I am enjoying aspects of my time here but I can't imagine living here for much longer, as it's complete sensory overload all the time and I'm exhausted. And that's just from my free time, not even my job!

So, that's the main reason I haven't blogged about the amazing city I'm in. I've been distracted, but even then I don't think I would do it justice. There are plenty of beautiful blogs about Paris that perfectly caputre it much better than I ever could, as a British girl only here for half a year. I have pictures of course, vast amounts of them, and they are of stunning things and places, but the time has passed from when I remember taking each individual one and uploading them all now would be silly.

I read a lot of amazing blogs on a daily basis, written by creative and funny people who seem to know what they're talking about. This is why they are interesting reads. So I decided today that I would try and write a few posts (I have given up "wasting time" for lent, so I'm trying to be better organised, for 40 days at least) and see where they lead. If they keep fading away, then I'll just stick to being an admirer of other people's blogs; something that is incredibly fun. But I do promise that every time I will write about my experiences; about things that I know about. I have been thinking "I'm missing a great opportunity here, I need to write about Paris!" But I don't know about Paris. I know about music, about being a student, about films, about low-end thrift fashion, about issue I give a dman about, about being a cheapskate, about Lewes, Brighton, Eastbourne, Cardiff... so that's what I'm going to try and concentrate on.

I'm here for another 6 weeks; it's at this point, however, that I realise how much of Paris I haven't seen. I'm talking about all the tourist thigns I've completely missed out on, and have to cram in now, so expect that to be the subject of the next few posts. Tourist Paris through my crappy digital camera as I rush around the city frantically.

I'm quite looking forward to it, actually.
KM.