PARIS

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PARIS AUP Surviving the Semester
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Before you come to Paris

• Get your VISA
• Make sure to bring a bank statement
• Double check all requirements needed
• Copies of Passport
• Put one in a safe place
• Numbers of your credit cards
• Put one in a safe place
• Call credit card company to tell them you will be
  away
• Make sure your parents have a copy of everything

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Packing

• Allowed a carry-on and a purse/laptop case
• HIGHLY SUGGEST pack a few outfits in the
  carry-on with your toiletries for the first
  couple of days in the FIAP
• Allowed 2 suitcases to check
• Must weight less than 50 lbs!
• Pack light because you will buy things there!

• Very important to bring
• Umbrella
• Comfortable shoes
• Clothes that can go with many things
• Plus you could be in an apartment with no
  elevator and on the 6th floor (which is really
  the 7th)

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Insurance

• Ask your insurance company if you are covered
  abroad
• Make sure to have copies of the letter
• If you are not covered
• AUP has a great insurance plan
• Automatically covered unless you show them the
  note from your insurance company

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When you Arrive

• Try to stay up
• Harder to adjust if you take a nap
• Drop things off at the FIAP
• FIAP youth hostel where you will stay until you
  find an apartment
• As more and more people are finding apartments,
  you may be moved to different rooms in the FIAP
• Dont worry if you dont find an apartment right
  away you can stay at the FIAP for as long as it
  takes

• Paper work for registration (should be done
  before you arrive)
• Housing appointment
• Find out when your appointment is
• Tell them what you are looking for in an
  apartment
• Get to know your student advisor
• Youll go out to dinner and to a bar with them on
  the 2nd night
• Get to know Paris (ie. Metro tours, AUP functions)

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AUP

• Where the School Buildings are
• 31 Avenue Bosquet
• 10 bis, rue Amelie
• 9, rue de Monttessuy
• 147, rue de Grenelle
• 102, rue St. Dominique
• 6, rue du Colonel Combes
• Pierre Villey (not shown)
• Really not that far away have 10 minutes in
  between classes and have plenty of time to make it

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Bosquet Combes

• 4 computers for recreation use
• AMEX café
• Classrooms
• SGA
• Some administrative offices (registrar, student
  activities, etc)

• 4 computers for in between classes
• Art gallery
• Office
• Classrooms

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Grenelle

• Study Lounge
• Classrooms
• Printers
• Technology Services is here
• - VERY helpful if you have computer problems
• 1 Mac lab 3 PC labs
• only one lab not for classes
• But if the other labs arent signed out then you
  can use them

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Amelie Pierre Villey

• Bookstore
• 2 classrooms

• One classroom

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Library St. Dominque

• Bursurs office is there
• Where you pay tuition
• Where you get financial aid and loans
• They will help if your wallet/purse gets stolen
• Will give you euros to eat if your wallet gets
  stolen have to pay it back

• Careful Library hold strange hours
• Be aware of due dates fines are expensive

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Computers/Email

• Computers at School
• Macs and PC
• Printers
• Labs dont open until 9am on weekdays and
  close around 9 or 10pm depending on the day
• Hold strange weekend hours be sure to check
• Email
• Login required
• Your student ID
• Gets you into buildings (PV and Amelie)
• Allows you to take out books
• Gets you student discounts at museums
• If Art History Major gets you into museums for
  free
• Your student ID number
• Login to computers
• Login to blackboard
• Login to wireless network in AUP Buildings
• Login to your AUP email (both go to the same
  place)
• Firstname.lastname_at_ac.aup.fr

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Internet

• Internet
• Internet in your house
• Could be included - not likely
• Need a French bank account to pay for it can
  have a friends account and you pay them
• About 30 euros a month installation
• May have some deals
• Internet at AUP
• WiFi connection restricted to AUP buildings

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Your Appointment with Housing

• Meet with housing office
• Get their early - if you late, may loose
  appointment
• They give you a few choices of apartments within
  your requirements
• You choose one and visit it
• A student advisor will take you and help you find
  how to get there, talk to your landlord, etc
• You are allowed to put ONE apartment on hold for
  ONE day BUT you CANNOT look at another apartment
  when you have one on hold
• If you put an apartment on hold and decide you
  dont want it, have to get a new appointment and
  start again

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Once you Decide

• Get the keys
• Sign an agreement
• Pay the rent and security deposit
• Security deposit is one months rent and you get
  it back when you leave
• Cannot be used for last months rent!!
• Move in

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Housing - General

• Most people pay around 500 euros
• Dont expect to live with a roommate very hard
  to find housing with another person
• Utilities, heat, etc could be included housing
  office will tell you
• Can live with a family or in an apartment
• Most family housing you live in a maids quarter
• Housing insurance is 40 - 60 euros non
  negotiable
• One time payment on tuition bill
• Good for theft, plumbing problems, etc.
• Any problems - tell Housing office
• Very helpful
• Can lead you in the right direction or help you
  speak with your landlord

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Housing - Misc.

• Dont loose your keys!!
• Very expensive to replace!!
• Dont try to make it look like a break in
• AUP has a 100 euro fine for fake burglary due to
  lost keys
• Plugs/converters
• Ask Radio Shack or your computer manufacturer
  about the proper voltage converter for your
  computer
• Dont bring hair dryer or straightener
• Just buy them there at Monoprix

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Housing with a family
Be prepared for a small apartment that will cost
about 350 euros Some families have deals ie.
Babysitting or teaching kids English
Average size of an apartment with or without a
family 9-11 square meters -About a 5 minute
walk to school -7th floor -No elevator
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Apartment

• 500 euros a month
• Utilities included
• 30 minute walk to school
• Shared bathroom and shower
• 1st Floor

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Apartment

• 500 euros a month
• Utilities included
• 30 minute walk
• Shared bathroom and shower
• 1st Floor

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Apartment

• 5 minute walk to school
• 550 euros a month
• Utilities NOT included
• Own bathroom and shower
• 6th Floor
• Small elevator

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Transportation

• Tickets work for Metro, RER, and bus
• One ticket one way
• If you switch metro lines you dont need another
  ticket
• If you switch bus lines/RER you need another
  ticket
• One ticket 1.40 euros
• Carne (10 tickets) 10.70 euros
• Carte Orange (one month) 51.50 euros
• Year pass 276.50 euros
• In general Keep your ticket. There are random
  checks to make sure you have it if you dont
  you could be fined about 40 euros
• -when on the RER you have to keep your ticket
  because you need it to exit the station

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Where to stop?

• Metro
• La Tour Maubourg Closest to Grenelle, Amelie
• Ecole Militaire Closest to Bosquet
• Bus
• 80 and 92 Stop right outside of Bosquet
• RER
• Pont dLama
• Invalides

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Banking

• Tell your bank you are leaving
• See if they have any fees for international
  withdrawals
• Withdraw a couple hundred euro at a time so you
  dont have to keep paying a fee
• CAREFUL Some banks and ATMs wont let you take
  out more than around 500 euros total a day.
• If you open a bank account in Paris know that
  they dont like it if you bounce a check
• Banks in Paris
• HSBC, Societe Generale (partner w/ Bank of
  America), CA, CC Paris, Credit du Nord, BNP
  Paribas

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Phones

• Landline- (not recommended)
• 50 euros for installation
• Ask Landlord about it
• Cell phone-
• Can get a contract but need to be here for a year
  or 2
• PAY AS YOU GO PHONES
• About 50 euros for the phone minutes
• Orange, SFR, Bouygues
• Buy more minutes at a Tabac
• Get deals on if you buy 50 euros of minutes you
  get 65 euros worth of minutes
• Best way to contact parents Skype - need
  internet connection and head set
  (microphone/headphone)
• AUP needs to have a phone number where you can be
  reached if something happens

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Shopping - Clothes, Shoes, Accessories, etc.

• Groceries
• Ed
• G20
• Monoprix
• Franprix
• Leader Price
• Rue Cler outside market
• Real McCoy American food store
• Careful its expensive!

• Gallery Lafayette
• Saint German de Pres
• Champs Elysee
• If asked if you speak English ignore and walk
  away they distract you to get your wallet/purse
• Rue de Passy
• St. Paul on metro line 1 (Jewish quarters)
• Flea Markets
• Port de Clingonant
• Be careful lots of pick pockets

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Places to Eat

• When Parents come to visit
• Café Trocadero
• great view of Eiffel Tower when it sparkles
• Around School
• Columbus Café coffee shop closest to school
• on St. Dominque past Julien
• Boulangers
• 4 or 5 around school
• Julien (on St. Dominique) highly recommend
• Cotas (on Grenelle)
• Rousillon hang out place for AUP
• Japanais Sushi
• St. Dominque
• Tribeca great pizza
• Rue Cler
• Cote Sud sandwich place
• St. Dominque

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Night Life

• Lots to do around Paris at night
• BE CAREFUL!
• Each metro closes and opens at different times
  check before you go out
• Normally the last metro is at 12.10am and the
  first one starts around 5.30 am
• Buses stop running around 8
• Night bus very sketchy and hardly goes anywhere
  
• NOT recommended
• Cabs are expensive and hard to find
• Go to a taxi stand
• There are many cab stands around Odeon and St.
  Michael
• Dont call a cab - they charge you from when you
  call until your home

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Laundry

• Find the laundry mat nearest to you
• Very Expensive
• Small load of laundry is about 3.70 - 4 euros to
  wash
• 1 euro for 10 minutes to dry
• Bring a small carrying bag/suitcase to put
  laundry in
• Dont use a laundry basket no one does

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Travel

• Trains
• TGV
• EuroStar
• SNCF
• Airplanes
• Cheapest if you book in advance
• Ryan Air flies out of an airport about an hour
  outside of Paris (called Beauvais Airport)
• Easy Jet
• Hostels
• Hostelworld.com

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Safety Tips

• You are in a city - be smart and aware of your
  surroundings
• Dont take any magazines or pamphlets or whatever
  from ANYONE be firm and act angry when saying
  no
• Dont leave cell phone or purse or wallet on the
  table at cafes kids put newspapers or magazines
  over them and take them.
• Keep purse closed and close to you when riding on
  the bus/metro/RER

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Survival French

• Its ok that your French is limited
• Show that you are trying
• Dont expect people to know English
• Many do but you are in France and it vexes them
  off that we would assume everyone speaks English
• When walking into a store always say
  bonjour/bonsoir
• When leaving say Merci. Au revoir.
• Its just the custom here and if you dont you get
  a serious attitude from people
• SVP sil vous plait (again to be polite)

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In General

• Dont be afraid to do touristy things
• Try and explore as much as possible especially
  around your apartment
• Book traveling ASAP

• Nothing is open on Sundays except some stores
  on the Champs Elysee
• Strikes are common be sure to know when they
  are happening

• Museums are closed on Mondays except the Louvre
  which is closed on Tuesdays
• Louvre is free Friday nights for Students