Football, summer and picnics in Paris

It has been a while since I wrote mainly due to the fact that I have spent most of my free time sleeping off late nights and long days. The beginning of the week was fairly uneventful except for the strangest visit to L'OFFI (immigration/integration department) where I had to have a medical test (just in case I posed a threat to the population of France). It was very bizarre, they weighed me, measured me, checked my eyesight then x-rayed my lungs. I understand the x-ray but the rest???
Wednesday I took the girls to the pool and had my first experience of the Paris bus system. On-time, efficient, regular! Australia has a long way to go before we are even halfway towards the standard of European transport. Wednesday night it was back to Cafe Oz to watch the make it or break it match. It was a load of fun as a crowd of Serbians were there screaming their chants to which us Aussies replied with Waltzing Matilda etc. Eventually the Serbians left after we scored two goals and replaced Aussie favourites with a chant of 'look at the scoreboard...'
Since the weather has gone from arctic to simply beautiful me and my new Swedish friend decided to have a picnic by the Seine on Thursday night. It was a wonderful night, the sun didn't go down till 11pm, it was balmy and half of Paris was sitting by the water with their picnics. We bought some supplies (cheese, olives, salami, bread, wine etc) and joined the merry crowd, talking and eating till I had to go home due to my early start for school.
Friday I finally finally finally worked up the courage to go for a run on the streets of Paris. For some reason I have not wanted to go out because it just seems weird to run on main roads amongst well dressed Parisians. In fact it was very nice, I ran up the canal and back and got quite a good workout, very sore now as all I have been doing for exercise is walking. Post-run I went to Elin's place for drinks as her (Australian) flatmate had some people over.
I'm looking forward to another gorgeous day out in the Paris sun. Might head out to do some shopping, it's been too long since my last purchase and I'm eying off some great summer heels.
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