overnight travels (silly french boys).

So when we were entering Bercy station (to go to Rome), we passed a kid who looked around middle-school age, and he had Bieber-like hair and a Nirvana shirt, and I said to Michelle, "He's most likely from the U.S." Little did I know...

We had reserved a couchette for the overnight train from Paris to Rome, which meant it had six beds. When we arrived at our compartment, lo and behold--it was Nirvana kid and his friend! And...they were definitely speaking French to each other, haha. We had just passed several compartments of other kids who looked around the same age, so we guessed it was a French school group traveling together, which turned out to be correct. The two boys' names were Julian and Marian (that took a while to find out, haha), and they were really silly. They had the top two bunks, so they mostly stayed up there (after devouring about a backpack's worth of snacks, LOL). After a little while, they talked for a bit to Michelle and me, albeit in rather broken English. Julian (Nirvana kid) was the one who talked to us mostly, since his friend was pretty shy. They would randomly ask us if we liked something, in the format of, (Julian sticks his head down to us) "Do you liiike...(fill in the blank)?" Haha. It was cute and very amusing.

Everything else was pretty normal. The compartment made us think of Harry Potter (I wish it was the Hogwarts Express!), but otherwise, it was like the trains we've traveled on in China. I love trains :) riding them is so relaxing and fun. And I think it's interesting that no matter where you go, countryside pretty much looks the same. Nothing remarkable, but I think I like it that way.