"What do you call the first day of school in English?" "uhh...the first day of school."

My first day of school went really good! I arrived 45 mins early because I'm always scared that the trains will have problems. I went inside the building just fine. You have to type in a code to unlock the door. Then once you're in the foyer, you type in the code again to open the second set of doors. Then it looked like this:

and check out this elevator:

Yeah that's an elevator. and yes, I did try it out since I had time to spare. It was so tiny!! Like everything else in this country...seriously, the Eiffel Tower is only popular here because it's big. French people aren't used to big things.
My school is on the second floor (1er étage in french) and the door looks like this:

My class today had about 17 girls in it. All of them are Au Pairs and around my age! The girl next to me spoke English but was from The Netherlands. Maybe 6 girls were from Germany and 3 were from the U.S. It was a crazy mix of girls. Everyone seemed pretty talkative and nice. My teacher only spoke French, so I really had to pay attention when she spoke. I managed to understand most that she said today. We get a break time in the middle of class where we all go to a break room and drink coffee or hot chocolate, eat cookies, and talk. That's my favorite time!

I had a few issues today though with space. Like I said before, everything is tiny here. Im used to having elbo room, room to spread all my books and my purse out on the table. Theres no room for anything here. I knocked over two things durring class today because I can't seem to keep all my crap on the desk. I need to practice living in small spaces. I need more poise.

My class today will be the same on Thursday, but my Friday class will probably be different. I'll have to wait and see. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, I don't have school. 

As for tomorrow, I am making tortilla soup for dinner IF I can find cilantro at the grocery store. If not, bbq chicken sandwiches it is!