Title Steal... Being broke in a Foreign Country.. Pas de Plaisir

Being Broke in a Foreign Country... Not fun

Lunch/Snack- Coffee - .60€cents and Madeleines  1euro (Yum!)

Like my sister Deb spoke about on her blog ( Don't forget to check out her postings http://deborahlovearoma.blogspot.it/ ) we need money. Lol. Leah and I have been doing ok thus far. Because we only get four meals per week. The other 3 days we have to get ourselves dinner and for 7 days a week, we have to provide ourselves Lunch and a snack. Last week was oreintation so we didn't have to worry about lunch because the school provided lunch. However this past weekend, we were stumped with nothing to eat so we had to search, and it wasn't fun at all. This week was the first real week of classes and such so we had to find lunch, if we wanted to eat and this weekend Leah and I will have to find something again to manger ( eat). Alors, so what are we going to do... we haven't decided. There aren't many places were we are so we have to take metro's and all that jazz {Stay tuned for a blog on metros}. So we might go to the carrefour which is the equivalent to like a Food Emporium or Dagostinos and get some bread, cheese, and meat and have us some sandwiched for lunch or some microwavable things. We need to go grocery shopping, but we can't pack stuff in the fridge because there isn't enough room for our stuff -___- but we'll make it work.  Also, I didn't know it would be so hard to find sliced turkey meat, everything in the store is jambon, which in translation is HAM, something we can't eat, what are the odds. so that puts another level of stress on us but we'll survive. Today we're being lazy and staying in, so we have no choice but to shop tomorrow, and pick up some snacks if we want to eat. We got this, don't fret parents. Don't forget to post a comment below. I'm new at this blogging so any suggestions, comments are welcomed. Stay tuned and stay tasty- <3 Coacobelle

This is an image of our breakfast we get every morning. Consisting of cereal, bread, jams, coffee or tea. Takes some getting used to, Not a bacon egg and cheese insight but it's cool.  I look forward to eating in the morning, even if Im hungry once  I walk back to my room lol. I'm always hungry but Parents don't fret, we're not starving over here, we have to be adults and make something happen.  This is actually pretty fulling and makes sense because we eat very fulling dinners and Dinner time in Paris is family time. Dad, if you're reading this, France has some great coffee and it's strong. I know you don't like watered down coffee, neither do I. Even with sucre et creme ( sugar and cream) you still taste the coffee.

This is the vending machine in the Lounge on campus. For just 60euro cents you can get you a small cup of expresso or capachino or hot chocolate. There's vending machine next to it with snacks and drinks as well.

Leah and I went searching for a cheap place to eat that is near our home, so on our way home from class we got off a stop before to find a place listed on the school's info flyer on cheap eats. Although we didn't go there we found a place near it that sold pannins. I didn't know that some places puts frites ,( french fries) on their sandwiches. It wasn't nasty. We were hungry and at the point anything would have fit the description as edible.

This is another image so you can see how it looked.  I didn't finish mine and it's still in the 'fridge.

Bolognaise flavored Lays chips. Taste good to me! Another snack! 

Some one had this ands let me try one , it's pretty good. weird eating cheesburger flavored chips. 

Now these little roundies are French donuts. The French and their pastry skills are on point. Madame made an apple tart and apple sauce for us the first night we stayed, the bomb diggity! These donuts are sooo good. 

So this was my lunch yesterday 24 Jan2013, before we went on an excursion. Vraiment ( Truly/ Really)  cheesy. All you do is micro wave for about 2min 30 seconds. You don't have to add water or anything, and the cheese tasted like real cheese which gets me a thinking- it must have been real cheese. Not like that powdered stuff we got back in the States, I'm talking real cheese. Added a little pepper and this hit the spot.

Came with a fork as well! 

Lee and I went to a small cafe, which are everywhere in Paris, after we went to the Louvre. With Matt and Macy, (M&M), this was Wednesday some time around 5p.m. Because we weren't getting an dinner that day Lee and I were hungry. So we popped into this place - was about 7.50 euros. a little disappointed because it didn't come with anything else. It was delicious but after I ate it, I wanted more, felt like eating a snack wrap, you bite and it's gone. This pannin had chicken, mozzarella cheese,  oniions, and red peppers. Tasty

Boire du cafe- you can see I'm bundled up

Haha Dad, this stuff is good! The French make strong coffee but it's so good. And I love me some coffee just like my daddy.

This is a close up, just stopped by a little cafe because it was so cold outside. This was about 1.90 euros, I dranked it in 3 mins. Next time I'm getting the grand and not the petit.