Spoiled

I've had a few posts about Princeton students in Paris, but yesterday, I was forced to acknowledge how spoiled we are. Yes, this seems like an irrelevant blog post, but nothing particularly exciting happened yesterday, besides the fact that I got Berthillon ice cream and took a lot of buses and métros. I went to the French/Italian conversation table, and they were still talking about how I brought my flute last week! But, before any of that, I woke up and headed to a "milk café," otherwise known as an Internet café. Why they call it "milk" is beyond me, but the basic premise is this: they nickel and dime you to do everything that you can do for free if you are a Princeton student on campus. 

My bill:

3€ for 1/4 hour of Internet access. I figured that would be sufficient, but it wasn't. 

1€ for a Kinder candy bar

1,50€ for an Oasis tropical juice (my favorite!)

0,30€ per page for my printing...so

0,30€ x 118 pages (all that I could get the computer to print before my 3€ of time ran out) = 29,50€

5,90€ TVA

Total: 40,90€ ($52.76) to print my readings for the first 2.5 weeks of the Urbino program. Yes, that is insane. The craziest part is that I had asked the professor to send me the readings before June if possible, so I could print them in the US. He said he would try. We got them last week. I might just read the rest on my iPad, because I don't feel particularly inclined to spend another $50 or more to print the rest. 

At least my friend Alex back in Princeton gave me a wonderful idea for a snack here—apparently, there is butter you can buy with salt crystals in it, and he said the most delicious thing in the world is putting that on a freshly made baguette with a bit of jambon or saucisson if I feel so inclined. So, once I'm done with this post, that is my goal for the morning! I have laundry in the washer now, so I can't stray too far from the apartment anyway.