A happy blog!

A fun list I have made to make the most! 

(yes I drew that Old English by hand..)

What a wonderful day, the kind of warm gloom that we rarely wake up to in Colorado where you feel like cozying up with hot cocoa and glancing at nature with a smile, but I went out. Each of our classes are one day a week for 5 hours--ugh--but today is the one class that I'm not taking (don't worry I still have a full load of 15 credits). I ate an amazing crepe (cheese, tomato, mushroom, egg, and ham) at this wonderful lil shop. I was by myself and still managed to say everything with ease and simply enjoy "reading" a french magazine. Everyone here, especially the people in the media are gorgeous and remind me of my friend Whitney who I'm beginning to think is originally from here and not the United States.

The building on the right is where we ate the other night, 

what a beautiful spot to observe and kill time

After, I walked into town not realizing that everything here closes for lunch between 12 and 2, and it was only 1:15 PM. So I bought the local newspaper that was supposed to have our picture in it (we took a group shot at the school with our host families), but it wasn't until I looked through that whoever told us must have mistaken the date, oh well! I also bought a pack of French cigarrettes--I don't smoke, but hell I'm in France! I went to a beautiful area by this bridge, mill, and river smoking; switch my leather coat out for a trench, turn day to night, add some rain and I had French film noir. Mom, please don't worry, I don't smoke and know it's bad for me; this is just a one-time-kinda-thing. Anyway, I walked around killing time and ran into a lady who had a cute basset hound. Somehow I conveyed I had one back home and she let me pet her puppy-aw! I miss dogs, but everyone here seems to have them so it's comforting that French people love their dogs. And yesterday, Ying and I saw two, huge fat cats on our way to school that came up and rubbed against my shins, yay!

I stopped by a biscuterie, and asked what the infamous Pont-Aven cookies were. She let me try some, and now I know what to bring back as a gift souvenir. Then a ways down was this chocolaterie I was eyeing the other day. I bought some milk chocolate just to nibble at whenever I feel the craving-and tis amazing here, obviously! As far as my packing went, I did awesome bringing only one suitcase that was only one size up from a carryon, and a backpack--which is quite amazing for a college girl. Everyone else showed up at the airport with 2 large suitcases, a packed duffel, backpack, and they shipped stuff here!! I might be wearing the same clothes all the time, but at least I can get from one place to the next pretty easy...

La chocolate!