Well, I forgot about yesterday's blog post, so I will just combine yesterday with today.
Yesterday we had a wine tasting, which was cool, but we only tried two years of the same wine (Bourgeuil - a red wine of this year) as well as a bunch of cheeses and other French snacks. After class, a few of us wandered a bit around town and ended up walking next to the Loire River for a bit, which was nice. Later on, I spent some time at a bar with some other friends to watch the Spain-Switzerland game (Spain lost...what??). I then met up with MT, who had made a couple of Mexican friends who wanted to also come on the same trip, so I scrambled to make arrangements for them before they backed out today (which I guess is less work). Last night, we had a political discussion at the dinner table, which is very difficult to do in French - the other student (from UPenn) loves Hillary Clinton but hates Barack Obama for rather stupid reasons. It was nice to have the family on my side - they are big Obama fans. I also learned a bit about French politics - what Sarkozy is doing with unemployment, the retirement age, etc. Yesterday was on the whole a bit annoying because I was rather tired.
Today was better - after our usual class from 10-1, we met with a huge group of French students to talk about the differences between our educational systems, and afterwards, they invited some of us out to a bar, where we chatted in French and met a bunch of REAL French friends! Woah! They also invited David and I out to watch the World Cap match tonight (between France and Mexico), so if I can get out of dinner early enough, I will go!
My host family is leaving for Paris this weekend and the UPenn student is going to Amsterdam, so I have the house all to myself!
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