first week

So I am all moved into my host family's apartment, and I have been in Paris now for almost a week...things are going well. I have the metro figured out, I know the code to my host family's apartment building, and I've found the supermarket.  Still not sure where to find a loofah, but I have managed to find the essentials.
It really is harder than one would think to buy things here...I mean, clothes are easy.  But everything else? Kind of complicated.  They have so many little specialty stores, so they have everything you could ever want, but you have to find it first.  For example, I have been in 2 different supermarkets (food), a pharmacy (really expensive products), a parfumerie (strictly perfume), a kind of odds and ends store (it seemed to be a mix between TJ Maxx and Big Lots, but had really random stuff. not what I expected ), an electronics store (which sells all electronics, from curling irons to stoves to Ipads), and a thrift store and have yet to figure out where the French buy their picture frames.  Or loofahs.
One of the girls in my program is also from Pittsburgh, and also a vegetarian, so that has been very nice when eating out-I'm not the only wierd one who doesn't eat meat.
The whole time I've been here we've been having orientation-type stuff with API.  We have had academic orientation, cultural, housing, you name it. I also took my placement test at the end of last week, and will find out my level and my classes on Thursday.
 We've also gotten to go on several tours- we took a boat tour of the Seine, as kind of an overview of Paris, we had a brief tour of the Louvre, and took a walking tour of Montmartre (where the Sacre Coeur cathedral is).  All of these tours suggest a hundred new things to go visit, so my list of activities is getting kind of long!
Tomorrow we have a Musee d'Orsay tour, and then we're going ice-skating, and Wednesday we have a tour of the catacombs (not sure exactly which ones...)
My host family is really really nice.  They are all speaking French to me, and are very patient with my terrible responses.  I asked them to correct me when I make mistakes, so hopefully I will improve soon.  They are all fluent in English, however, as the father is Czech and the mom is French, so when they met they spoke their common language of English to one another.  It's nice, because when I don't know a word, I can just say it in English and they can tell me what it is in French. 
The father and son both play guitar extremely well, and it's very nice to have a live concert every now and then as I'm sitting in my room :)
All in all, things are going well.