What? No shoes =/

I was so excited about coming to France to discover a number of new things. I was especially looking forward to making a few new purchases. Everyone has their things they collect, well one of my farorites..shoes. We were all excited to take in this new culture. We've seen musems, wineries, chathedrals, and shopes. After taking in all of these inspiring fashionable looks we were all read to spice up our wardrobes.

We all broke and started hitting all of these stories in the shopping mall downtown. Everyone was running around excitedly as they were gathering items. I started to grab things and converting the sizes I would need, not such an easy task.

I changed my focus and went towards the shoes. I saw the sizes 38,39,41. I kept looking thinging ok, I need a 44, please show me a 44!!! I went for this store to store no luck. Finally after gettinf really frustrated I went to a men's shoe store. One of the clerks spoke English and helped me find my size. He said, "Whoa we have the same size foot, that's crazy!!" I asked why, he said he had never saw a woman before with that size before (size 11). I asked, "Will I have any luck?" He shook his head and said, " Not in Europe." I continued to look around, but nothing past a size 41.

So sadly no shoes for me. I had this same luck with other items as well. Here they have small caps on good number of their clothing goods. Coming for home where I have no problem shopping, this is a huge adjustment. It's a sad truth, less authentic European clothing/ culture to take home.

The theme with the group is, " Don't try and change it, just accept it." I gues accepting it is my only option.