Hey Maggie
Glad to hear you're having a good time! Whereabouts are you, Paris? Do you go back to Londres afterwards?
ETA: Ooh Nice! Awesome - enjoy the sun!
I shall help with one or two useful phrases (I'll leave out swearwords, you'll quickly pick them up
)
I'll take a coke/beer: Je prendrai (prondray) un coca/biere (cokah/bee-air).
Sounds soo more casual and laissez-fair than 'I would like' and impresses people'.
Please: Sil vous plait
The cat is in the tree: Le chat est dans l'arbre
Waving your hands in the air/shrugging/saying "ol lo loor"... everything else
[For all I know you're trilingual though lol]