so sorry

It has been two weeks since i last posted and for this I am am sorry.
Today I walked around Paris by myself with some cash, my camera and a couple of metro tickets, I was told to walk around Paris for as long as I wanted then to come home.
This Map shows the route I took
The first image is all of Paris, and it is separated in different sections and they are numbereed 1-20. Technically the Population is only 2 mill inside Paris but, the outer suburbs (the white area around Paris, sorry I couldn't show you all the suburbs) contain 12 mill. these These two areas, Paris and the outer suburbs are separated with a 8 lane "Ring road".
The second Image is just a close up of the area I walked in.

Any way, as I walked past the Arc' I took some Photos. Here are two photos,one from each side of the Arc'
While walking down the Champs Elysees (shonz eliza, one of the many main roads in Paris) I saw the Toyota show rooms where they were exhibiting some DIFFERENT looking hybrid Cars.
The Obelisk
After I took some Photos of the Obelisk I bought a French hot-dog, Which is about a third of a baguette that has had a spike pushed 80 per cent length ways into it then the "sausage" is put into the hole. I thought about taking a photo of this strange version of a hot-dog but thought I would look really weird taking pictures of my food in the middle of the street, so I found someone on Google doing it for me.Thanx whoever you are

And I bought a Coke like her as well, but not Coke light or Coke zero, just regular sugar and caffeine filled Coke. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm I'm thirsty now.

On the close up map above ^ There are the words"The Obelisk" below those words is a blue circle which is a water fountain. Pic below
The line in the middle is a water spurt and behind that is the Obelisk

This was one of the last photos I took Because I forgot to put the memory card into my camera so I only had internal memory to work with. Yeah that was pretty stupid.


Here is something I have only seen in Paris 3 times and never in NZ, a three wheeled motorbike scooter thingie

So thats it,
No more till later,
Thats right,
Bye.

Reuben

birthday and cider

I had my birthday, I am now 14 yrs

I got presents and cake in the evening after dinner. Paul and Sybielle pulled out a birthday cake, (with 14 candles) some sparkling wine and three presents. The presents were a wooden model of the eiffel tower, two professional high quality drawing pads and a book to help me learn French.

Mum sent birthday money

and my Gran back in NZ sent me a book.

Also this is me and Tristan drinking cider at a cafe/bar. It was raining this day.

Hey all my watchers

This is for all the people out there reading this
HI!!!!!!!!

Any way everything is going sweet I'm learning to speak more of this language everyday and I'm understanding a lot more French as well, Its all good at school everyone there is nice to me.

Because there isn't alot to report I will just explain how lunch at school works (and que snoring sounds) Nah seriously it isn't that boring, at most schools in France you have the choice to go home or to eat at school, but unlike in NZ you can't bring food into the school because of health reasons (bacteria and crap they don't want spread around). If you choose to eat at school you are issued with a lunch card which has a magnetic strip down one side and after queuing for what seems like half an hour you can swipe your card into a machine, which spits out a tray which you take. You place on the tray (which is always Grey) a bread roll, knife, fork and spoon then maybe a starter (usually a salad which most people ignore)then a plate of food (main) and a dessert like a yoghourt or a piece of cake and now for the best part you get to sit down at one of the many tables and EAT all the food you have just ladened your tray with.
I told you it was interesting.

Signing out

The Arc de Triomphe

YAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!
My computer has arrived all fixed up and I have set up Wifi (wireless internet) on to it and now I can bring you photos, YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The guy who fixed my laptop just changed the hard drive for free and this new hard drive is a 30G the broken one was only a 20G

On Sunday we went inside the Arc de Triomphe and I took a bunch of photos of it and from it.

This is the first picture I took of the Arc'The red arrow shows where I took the next pic'

The green arrow shows where I was when I took the first photo


In the top photo you can see the back of a bus and in the second you can see the front of a bus.
To go from ground floor to the top of the Arc' is exactly 248 steps (I didn't count I read the sign like a normal person) and to show you the 3 main levels here is another pic'The squigily line that goes most of the way up through the main columns is the stairs that take you to the 2nd level. On the 3rd level is a souviner shop and some large televisions and signs that tell you pretty moch all the history of the Arc', including other designs for it and some plans for a statue on top of the Arc'. and finally the 4th floor (top) is in my opinion the best part of the whole thing
and this is where I took most of my picturesYou can see the Eiffel tower from the top of the Arc' and the rest of Paris.

Bye for now
Reuben