During my first year in Paris (October 2001 to September 2002) I studied for a master in Artificial Intellice and Image Analysis. I lived somewhere called the Cité U, which means something like University City. It's a set of student houses, each belonging to a country (or sometimes, to a field of study), in a nice big park. I lived in the Spanish house for most of the year, but in the end I spend one month in the British house.