Our feet carry us to destinations new to us...

What exciting things do I have to share with you? none, really haha. Okay I am in France, so maybe a few.

Liana and I learned to not venture out walking at 5pm here cuz oh my gah, it's crazy! Everyone is out of work and school and meshing together to walk/drive/bike/bus/other home. Seriously, it was the most people I have seen here out all at once. Also, what is the deal with middle schoolers smoking? That would not fly in the U.S. come on kids, you're like 12, I get you think it's cool and all but at least give it a few years. Anyway.

We woke up bright and early to take the placement exam, and I turned on my laptop that morning to be greeted by many friends still awake from adventures of the previous night. Apparently Michigan got a teeny bit of snow? ;) Well, while all of you were getting your drink on, and enjoying a snow day. I made my way to CIDEF and oh mon dieu. The exam started simply enough, except the cd played for the first section and NONE of the answers were matching up. I went into severe panic attack mode n was beginning to sweat and freak, when the guy running the exam looked REAL embaressed, and he stopped the cd, and said he had been using the wrong one, then switched em. OKAY so after that, it went better. There were parts when I was like "wait, what the hayell did that girl jus say?" and others were I kept second guessing my answers, but I have been told by numerous people to have faith in myself and just let it go. So I did my best(I hope) and left.

Wednesday was Chandeleur, which is basically a day for crepes, so we went out to a creperie for lunch, and had some galettes and crepes, with Cidre...which let me tell you, is pure deliciousness. (sidenote: it is perfectly acceptable to drink alcohol with crepes, and at noon nonetheless.) After this our petite group did some shopping in the centre-ville and parted ways.

Later Liana, myself and Gabby (she also is from NC) joined together and trecked across the city to Leah's, where she made us spring rolls for dinner, and again, we had some cidre. (now before any of you think we're a bunch of alcoholics, cidre is 2% alcohol per bottle, and the bottles are the size of wine bottles, so really, cut us a break) The dinner was good, the conversation made me feel at ease, and the 3 legged cat was icing on that evenings cake.
This morning Liana and I took advantage of the rain, and slept in, and eventually made it to town around 1, and let me tell you, it was 15 degrees celcius, and I'm not sure the farenheit there but it was defineately a welcome change to the ice cold crap we have been dealing with...and Quel Chance! The sun came out and the skies were (cloudy) but blue! it was quite amazing, and I took advantage by snapping a few photos.

So we eventually got our group of 4 together again, and trecked across the bridge, and got (un peu) lost on the other side of Angers, but it was fine, and a pretty adventure to say the least. We came across an old hospital that I forgot the name of now, but it used to be a hospital and now houses a tapistry(we didn't pay the charge to go check it out) but it also has a beautiful garden that we roamed around.

We managed to snag some cheap and amazingly delish croque monsieurs on our walk home. (Liana described it as two peices of bread, with ham and alfredo on it-like a sandwhich- and then add melted mozzerella on top.) oh my gah. it's a new favorite for sure.
After a quick stop at the market for a few groceries, we ended up back home for the night.

Dominique asked Liana n i if we were going to the bar tonight, and he was so excited I felt sad to break his spirit, but alas. I told him we were too tired to go out. We later came downstairs to find him asleep on the couch with the tv on and mozart sleeping just below him on the floor. I really do love my host family, they are comforting and quite cute.

A few random tidbits:
-Thursday is THE night to go out in this town, according to Dominique, and judging by the noise I hear outside I'd say he was correct.
-There are Atm's everywhere here, and my atm is extremely common, which makes me happy.
-You usually have to pay to use a restroom here, Liana did it, and apparently did not enjoy the facilities ;)
-If you say "non, merci" quickly after people ask you something, they may assume you didn't understand them, and switch to speaking english, even though you really understood them but just did not want their product. sigh.
-Catcalls are growing on me, and I find it more amusing than appalling now. Soon we might get adventurous and shout "Les garcons" back at them to see their reactions...then again peut-etre pas.