Busy Week!!!

Whew! It's only Wednesday but this week has been crazy. Yesterday was the worst, but its all downhill from here. I had four classes yesterday, plus our conversation club after classes were over. That was a lot of fun, there were probably a good...oh I don't know twenty-five French university students who came to hang out with us for an hour and a half. Alison, Kara and I got to talk to a young girl named Alice who is studying material engineering? Something that I would never want to do. She was really fun, and asked us for our phone numbers so that we can all go out sometime within the next couple of weeks. We were talking about when we've been in France before, and I told her about being near the Bastille during the post-election riots. We had a hard time figuring out the word riots, but got it done. Then the discussion moved to the US system of elections and the electoral college. Not an easy subject to understand in English, much less in fairly broken French. Whew! Alison and Kara were ready to be done talking politics at that point, so we moved on to city life. For me, personally, Nantes is too big. It takes me forty-five minutes to get from my house to school by bus, and just today the bus was almost fifteen minutes late AND took a mid-route detour. I really don't like the loss of independance that comes along with having to use public transportation. Obviously I was alone in that opinion, because the other three really love the size of the city. Alice was born near Versailles, then moved next to Fontainbleu. The girl likes her castles, and her accompanying large cities.

Speaking of castles....field trips! Only two and a half weeks till we head out to tour the Chateuax de la Loire, and only three days until Mont-Saint Michel! Woo! I'm really excited about it. Its one of those places that you always see on the walls of your French class rooms, but never think about actually getting to see. Now I do! Oh, here is a very brief and very optimistic list of places I'd like to go while I'm here:
1. Mont Saint Michel
2. Normandy/Omaha Beach
3. Norway/Sweden (1/2 Big Break Trip?)
4. Strasbourg/Carly?
5. Corsica
6. Spain/Portugal?
7. Belgium and the Netherlands?
8. Scotland and Wales instead of Norway with Caitlin for Break?
7. And to be very ambitious, why not Morocco or Algeria?

Tonight my host mom isn't home, so she left my dad and I a quiche in the fridge with instructions on how to cook it. They are a very traditionally structured family, which is a little different for my. Mom stays home, cooks every single meal, cleans the house, etc. Dad works and gets home quite late at night and can't cook to save his life. I talked to him last night while I was cooking myself some pasta, and I think we're going to skip the quiche and I'm going to make an American Breakfast for dinner. Which means I need to go to the store...