Ah, Paris. Lovely Paris, the City of Love. The muse for many artists & Asian wedding magazines. The million dollar question though, is how does one survive for a year surrounded by the French?

Let me give ou the breakdown, the step-by-step:
Rule 1: don't speak English,
Rule 2: dont speak English AT ALL,
Rule 3: in fact, just be French.

Don't forget Life Lesson #44 either, do NOT yank on foreign French back doors! This is one of the many things you learn while living there. A year's worth of e-mails, news, trials and errors, travel memories, famine, suggestions and advice, French quirks, hating the English, Starbucks, are all found in this journal, the Travel Journal with South African je ne sais quoi...