Three weeks have past already. I’ve been gone for 30 days, visited 5 cities, passed my Culture midterm, aced my language class, and learned approximately 50 new words and/or phrases par jour (each day… I literally think some things in french first then have to translate it to english)
I’ve eaten some DELICIOUS food this past week. Also, wanted to give you a peak into daily life in the photos. It still hasn’t hit me that we’re going to Paris TOMORROW! What?! Sooo excited. I’m taking a 3 hour credit course for the 5 days, 4 nights that we’re there 
My group of Erin, Sarah, Ramsay, Kim and I are studying Napoleon III. We have “class” from 9am-1pm, then are pretty much free. Friday, however, my group gets to go to Compiègne, a city just north/northeast-ish of Paris to see the Château de Compègine because the Château is also a museum of the Second French Empire! The weather doesn’t look the BEST, but I’m hopeful. Sadly, I’m not taking my computer!!!! So check back Monday or Tuesday next week for a (i’m sure very long) summary of all of Paris… oh no, that’s going to be difficult.
Lydia and I looking out to all of Montpellier at my new favorite place in town
MuamMaum, chicken and mashed potatoes the French way
And of course dessert!
Our classroom at Accent Français, the school were our language class is taught. We come here in the afternoons on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Sadly, today was our last class there! because we loved…
REMI! He’s actually dancing in the picture. Today we were working on pronunciation, which made me very tongue tied, so we asked him to say “the apples are green,” but we asked him in french so he wouldn’t hear how we said it and it came out something like this with a painful look on his face…
“Zee a-poles ahhh greee”
It was soo hard not to laugh
View to the Place de la Comedie from our classroom!
Sarah waiting for the Flower Power tram
Tuesday, the Teaching Assistant Sarah took Taryn, Sarah, et moi on a bike tour. I learned so many things like that if you look at these two buildings one has a balcony and the other one does not because balconies did not become fashionable until ship trading started. When it did, people wanted to run to their balconies to see if the ships were coming. These two buildings were built centuries apart, but you would never know by passing them on the street. (Got to get your daily history lesson in)
After that intense discussion, we bought dessert!
Taryn, “I think that’s the least fake smile I’ve ever had in a picture”
Words don’t describe how amazing my chocolate mouse was, or my sheer happiness
Enjoying her little vanilla cake
JASON MRAZ AND JUSTIN NOZUKA TICKET! After some frustration with the arrangements we bought the ticket, made a hotel reservation, and bought our train ticket. J’ai hâte d’y aller! I’ve never wanted to see someone in concert more than Jason Mraz. Its at the Arena in Nîmes on July 9th.
Bon, Paris tomorrow!
