Some piccies

I have found a very strange way of connecting to the internet. There is a global wireless network called Fon that you can sign up with where you share your wireless and then you can access wireless around the world wherever there is a Fon network. You can also just buy wirelss from the network at the cost of $2 a day, which is what I am doing. I am called an 'alien' in the weird lingo of the network, but it seems to fit!

I've had an interesting couple of days trying to open a bank account and do other sorts of bureaucratic things. Oddly once you find the right bank, it's easier to open a bank account in France than in New Jersey - you just have to know where to go apparently.

I also have had the pleasure of seeing Tony Parker (Eva Longoria's French basketball-playing husband) starring in a music video from his new rap album, since they play it on French tv during commercial breaks. It is called "premier love" and is pretty damn hilarious! Here is the You Tube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oID5xu3pXis

Here are a few pictures of my apartment and the view from outside the FB office. I'll take a few more as I wander through more neighborhoods in the upcoming weeks. I pretty much live in the coolest neighborhood of the coolest city on earth. Now I have to get to work! I can't get into the archives for another few days so I've been working on my Arabic. I can now read and write and halfway pronounce three letters of the Arabic alphabet - it's slow going with these semitic languages. I may be able to read a few sentences by the time I'm 50 years old (that's the goal at least!)