Today we explored the neighborhood around la Cité; there are some cute streets and boulangeries, mais  it's pretty residential. Nonetheless, it's wonderful to have a boulangerie and pâtisserie down la rue. After exploring the area, we practice some French and headed off to the Sorbonne to take our placement exams. The exam was extremely difficult and included grammar, reading comprehension, listening, and an oral interview. We will find out what Sorbonne classes we will be taking later in the week. After a bit of a stressful afternoon, we continued to explore the Latin Quarter. This area is beautiful and is characterized by stone churches and boulevards, small cafés, and shops. I bought a new scarf and had hot chocolate! We stopped by the Panthéon, a beautiful former église and we walked around le jardin du Luxembourg. While it was beautiful, I am excited to see it in the spring. Afterwards, we headed back to la Cité and cooked dinner. I won't have pictures from today for a few more days...stay tuned! 

After dinner, we spontaneously decided to check out l'Arc de Triomphe around 9:30 pm. While we were one le métro, we passed by la Tour Effiel, and it was bright and beautiful! We took the métro directly to l'Arc de Triomphe, and there it was, right in front of us! Unfortunately it was too late to climb to the top, but we went beneath it and saw the tomb of the unknown solider. From there, we went shopping on  Avenue des Champs-Élysées.