“Struggles”
Erin “I really want to backpack all over France”
Omar “Do you have the time?”
Erin “I don’t have the backpack”
Rachael after Ramsay literally runs into a pole “At least your day can’t get any worse”
Ramsay “I thought that yesterday, then a pigeon shat on me”
Kim on the phone with her pregnant sister “I saw all this cute stuff I wanted to buy Ryder today, but then I remembered I couldn’t because he isn’t born yet”
Ever day I’m amazed at how well our group gets along. We’re the perfect number because we can split up easily, but aren’t too much of a problem when we go places together. We have so many stories that I don’t think anyone sauf us can comprend 
In procrastinating our worksheet on the train ride back, Sarah, Kim, and I made a little remix I’ll give you a taste of it…
Never thought I’d be on a train
got this rail pass under my name
you don’t have eyes how can you look at me
Never thought I’d see the day
there’s be another train speedin’ my way
believe me when I say I composted my billet
there’s more, but you’ll have to wait for the music video
Enough about how much I love my friends, I know yall just want to see the pics
Sadly I had to say à bientôt to Mary Kate Saturday, but Sunday we got a Brazilian boy to replace her. I haven’t had a chance to talk to him much yet though.
The beautiful countryside
Rachael thinking pensively encore
The matching couple and their child they don’t love… Sorry Georgia
Sarah and I in front of the Medieval city of Carcassonne!
Fortress
Working on our worksheet in the Basilique St. Nazaire
Erin, Ramsay, and Sarah inside the castle walls
Way up there on the list of the oldest things I’ve ever seen
Looking down to the new city
Carcassonne is the castle you pretended you ruled on the playground as a child
Hanging out in the castle grounds
Carcassonne is very touristy, I heard more english there than I have in the past month combined
The little street
Armored soldier figures in the window
… and the real armored soldiers battling in the streets
The a-typical mote, no water, no alligators…
Me on the drawbridge
From the Old Bridge
and again because its so cool
Sarah and I riding on the train…cuz this aint marta, this is as real as it gets
Waiting for the bus to go to Lydia’s BBQ like true french people, baguettes and wine in hand
Some of us with our new friends! Most of you know I absolutely LOVE meeting new people. One of my favorite things about being in a university city is that we’re meeting people from everywhere: Ireland, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, Iceland… the list goes on and on.
…but Andreas is just from Cali
Fête means party and the Europeans find a reason to celebrate just about everything, including the summer solstice which they kick off with the biggest music festival you’ve ever seen- literally all over the city, different bands, every genre, DJs, live groups, brass bands… everything. That would never happen in the states, especially on a Sunday. After hanging out on top of the Corum, the rooftop which overlooks the whole city, we wound up in a rave inside Montpellier’s oldest standing wall, the Tour de la Babote. There were sooooo many people and flashing lights and a music video projecting on the wall.
Sorry for overwhelming you with so many pictures at once… just embrace it.
Paris on Thursday!
Love the pictures! Looks like fun stuff!!!
And I love all the stuff about your friends! They sound awesome!