New year on Champs-Elysées
1/5/09Happy New Year 2009 Fei! After spending the Christmas in Disneyland we were finally ready to hit the Paris big time. We rented an apartment for one week at the very center of the city, halfway Champs-Elysées. There you, mom and I spent the last week of 2008 all the way until the first of January, 2009!
You're always excited to see new places and Paris was no exception. You didn't enjoy the shopping as much as your mom, but you very much liked the Christmas lights that decorated the trees along the streets. Unfortunately the weather was cold and windy, so we had to limit the time spent outside. Paris is also extremely polluted - perhaps even more so than the big cities in China - so it was overall a good idea to stay mostly indoors.
During the week you had a chance to meet your lovely French teacher Meriem. You immediatelly hit it off with her and started slapping her face with both hands, which I guess she took as a gesture that you don't like her. Quite the contrary of course. It's just that you seem to be very interested in the ways that your hands (and other objects) interact with all kind of surfaces. You bounce me in the head with all kinds of things multiple times a day and I think you obviously couldn't possibly love your dad a single bit more than you already do.
After one week I think we're all pretty much done with Paris for the time being. It's nice to be back in Zürich - it almost felt like returning home to see all the familiar buildings around river Limmat when we finally made it to the city. For you it's probably been at the same time exciting and stressful to be on the road for past two weeks. We're now going to take it easy for a while and settle down, trying to get back to daily routines... it's fun to travel but it's also very good to just be home!
Arc de Triomphe
Eiffel Tower, Paris
During the week you had a chance to meet your lovely French teacher Meriem. You immediatelly hit it off with her and started slapping her face with both hands, which I guess she took as a gesture that you don't like her. Quite the contrary of course. It's just that you seem to be very interested in the ways that your hands (and other objects) interact with all kind of surfaces. You bounce me in the head with all kinds of things multiple times a day and I think you obviously couldn't possibly love your dad a single bit more than you already do.
After one week I think we're all pretty much done with Paris for the time being. It's nice to be back in Zürich - it almost felt like returning home to see all the familiar buildings around river Limmat when we finally made it to the city. For you it's probably been at the same time exciting and stressful to be on the road for past two weeks. We're now going to take it easy for a while and settle down, trying to get back to daily routines... it's fun to travel but it's also very good to just be home!