August 24

The clock showed 5h when I woke up in the middle of the darkness. Filling my journal with French, flipping through a pile of French books beside the bed, I was able to fall asleep again. The second time woke up was 8h30. I put on my jogging shoes and the gray jumper, and walked out to the supermarket to buy the food. The morning air was fresh and chill, looking up is cloudless blue sky. People were going to work or do the shopping at this time, many of them look so stylish. However, it's still a typical city, don't expect the stranger will say "bonjour" to you.

In the morning I just stayed in the house using skype and connect We went out at 15h heading to Notre Dame des Champs, Clichy is located in the second loop of the Paris metro so it's very convenient to get around. Then we meet up with other exchange students from Science Po, and went to BNP to create a new bank account. Thank to the help of Dominique, the tedious administrative procedure was done smoothly.

In the evening, I had dinner at the university restaurant in the CROUS office with other Taiwanese Science Po exchangers. Even though I heard many complain about the food there, it was still satisfying because one can have a balanced and filling meal with only 3 euro. After the dinner, I headed to the Eiffel Tower alone because the other two NCCU students were tired. Without the guidance of anyone, to take the metro alone is quite scary, especially I could not recognize the direction of metro lines. Due to some accident, I spent 50 minutes to get to my destination.

Luckily, even without the cellphone, I still spot Dominique and Catherine standing on the pont waiting. To take the elevator to the top costs 16 euro, but to climb the stairs only costs 3.5, we chose the latter. That was Alice's first time, so did I. The view from the tower was good but at night I could hardly make out the spots indicateThe Tower itself with the orange lights lit up was splendid already, the dazzling 20000 strobe lights shone every hour for five mintues were even more please to the eyes.