A Bit of School, A Lot of Vacation...

So here's how it goes - go to class each day, speak French all day, then return home to plan vacations. Basically how it goes each week - this week, after much debate, I decided to return to Switzerland this weekend, this time to Geneva, with different friends - Lauren and Jacque. Yes, I was just near there - but of the options (which we Strasbourg, Lourdes, going alone somewhere else, or nothing), this was the best. And since it's covered by my Eurail Pass, why not? I'm excited to return to the land of mountains, and hopefully this time we will get a peek at Mont Blanc, the highest point in the Alps, which will make the 6-hour each way trip worthwhile. Plus, it should be a fun group! All we need is to buy some Speculoos to make it amazing...
As far as school goes, I have received my tests from last week back and got good marks on all of them - anything about 15/20 is an A and I received 16's. We have another test tomorrow over some grammar which should be fine.
A little over a week til the SFS Proficiency Exam (11:15am on Wednesday the 28th), which is a little scary but I feel pretty confident as I have been reading Le Monde almost every day and could probably do well enough to describe an article given to me and even have an opinion on it.
Speaking of opinions, I had an intense discussion with my host family yesterday about religion. I defended Muslims as my host parents railed against their "endorsement of violence" and "way of life incompatible with Christianity." Hmmmm...it was interesting to hear their view (very similar to many in the US but maybe even harsher) and I think I did a decent job of explaining myself - though they are convinced that the Quran tells Muslims to "kill the infidel," which as far as I know, is a mistranslation. Anyway - it was interesting discussion, and while I am by no means Muslim, I felt like I had to argue the other side a bit. Meanwhile, the Swiss lady living her for the week basically sat out on the conversation. At the end, my host family gave me "homework": an excerpt from a book on "historical correctness," which attempts to correct for biases created over time, particularly about religious wars like the Crusades. So now I have some more reading haha...