Thursday and Friday

France is so great! Yesterday we had class in the morning, it was seriously dragging on! After that the director of ISEP(the organization we came here through) came to talk to us. He came 20 min late, I feel like nobody's ever on time over here, so we didn't have time to eat at school. We rushed to the train station after and had time to grab a sandwich from a place across the street while Guillaume bought our tickets.

We went to Grenoble in the afternoon, the olympics were there in the 60s. It's about an hour by train from Chambery. We took a ride on a cable car to the bastille's fortress and walked around up there for a while, it was nice and windy on the mountain, a good change from the 90 degree weather in the city! We walked through the museum too, that was cool! They gave us a headset with and audio Gide that automatically changed when we changed rooms. It was in French but I still could understand most of it.


The cable cars going up the mountain

Then we went down into the city and walked around. It was cool, everything over here is like nothing in America...we looked in some shops and finally just sat in a park to relax, the heat had drained us! When we got back we went to quick burger for the Internet and I got to watch glee from this week :-) When we got back from there I went up to hang out with Hope, Jeremiah, and Mike, a few people from the program who live in my building. Then it was off to bed!

Today we had class from 9-12:30, like always. Then we ate lunch at school and then we had an 'atelier,' it's like a workshop and we have one per week. Today we went to an exhibit about taste/food. It was pretty cool, next week we get to cook :-) Then me and Anna went to reserve our spots on the train for Paris next weekend. The whole group is going but we have eurail passes so we get to pay way less but still
needed to get reservations. After that we went to carrefour with a few others, it's a huge grocery store but with other stuff too, kind of like walmart. We bought some groceries and got France jerseys!

Right now a bunch of us are at a bar watching the first France world cup game (in our jerseys). It's so fun! Everyone was singing the national anthem (that we happened to learn in class today). It's great but really hot inside. They have a big screen for the game and it's packed! In the way here people were talking to us and getting excited that we were wearing French jerseys, a guy who's a photographer for the newspaper took our picture with some other locals who were wearing jerseys. It's cool, everyone is really excited, obviously.

Well I'm going to go pay attention now!


Intently watching the game...