Welcome friend, to my blog...experience paris with me...day by day. Clean and green...tats how paris differentiates itself from say a city like Bombay. Otherwise view from the train and buildings resemble south bombay with its european architecture. My acco (pics to be uploaded soon) is in Maison De L'Inde (or The India House) in a place called Cite Universitaire (where alot of country specific houses exist). Uptil now life in paris has been mainly on the metros...extremely convenient, well-connected, fast, never late (Farah from London told me how their metros often run late...and the Indian story is well known), beggars are also found in there, well-mannered people (no one's in a hurry). On day 1, we tried to ask people about our station and left a few french enthusiasts confused as they tried to read their charts ;)...finally an Indian on the train came to our rescue...honestly indians need not learn a foreign language...trust a mallu to be there to help u anywhere in the world (next day morning, a mallu gentleman dropped us right uptil our platform in one of the stations!).

Wait for the next post on first day in college and then subsequent posts on the "inside" information about people and culture of france both from social and political perspectives.