Salut!
Today was our first day of class with Madame McNelly. It's a civilization class that we have for about 3 hours a day (a little excessive). The building we have it in is actually a retirement home for priests so it's funny to see little old men walking around all the time while we're studying. We discussed mostly today the national identity of France and what symbolizes France to both the French and the outsiders. It was interesting to hear from my teacher (who is from Burgundy) what it means to her to be French and how she feels about it. Although I'm in school here it's a lot more casual than I expected. It's just 12 friends sitting around a table speaking French to each other--although we have a test a week and I've been in my hotel all night doing homework. Hopefully she'll be an easy grader and we can just enjoy the class and work on our speaking.
After class we stopped to have an early snack/dinner at a cafe closer to the hotel and then came back to the hotel to work! A pretty uneventful day to be sure, but that's alright with me. Tomorrow we'll have class again and then we have to come home and pack for Provence on Thursday! Just when I was starting to not feel like a complete tourist, we have to go to another place where we will once again be the token Americans. I couldn't be more excited to see the south of France. We've been preparing for the trip already and it looks beautiful.
I forgot my camera cord in the states (obviously) but I got on google images and found some of where I am!
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| A typical street |
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| Le Palais du Duc right outside my hotel |
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| Le palais at night |
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| The post office |
Au Revoir!
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