What an Amazing Day

Before I came to France I took typing for granted, it was something i could easily do with my eyes closed and i was proud of that. Now staring down at this foreign piece of technology, i realize my American typing skills are useless. The French keyboard was terrifying at first sight. Instead of the "a" being in its normal position there is a "q". My left pinky felt very lost for a while. The French keyboard has slowed my typing time to 3 words per minute.

Today my exchange partner, Cecilia, did not have school but I still had to be at st. Jo at 9am. While Cecilia was still snoring away, I left the Mondelice Residence with her 19 year old sister, Lauryne. Nichols students all ended up watching a long movie about this very cool gentleman, Arsene Lupin. I have heard of the name but I had no idea he was a fictional French character because I used to read about him in Chinese books. It was a very good and exciting movie even though we had to pause a couple times to ask Madame for a plot update.

After the movie we were able to go and explore Le Havre by ourselves. Wow. it was amazing. After a delicious lunch consisting of Lasagna and alot of French cookies for desert, Lauryne drove Cecilia and I into town and dropped us off at a street corner. When I stepped out of the car I was kind of puzzled because we were supposed to go to this girl's house and there were no residential buildings in sight. Cecilia responded "oh Marie's house is no where near here! We still have to walk for a while" "A While" ended up being 45 minutes and 45% of it was up hill.

I arrived at Marie's house only to find three eager Americans who wanted to walk to the mall. Molly, Izzy, Ilona and I finally arrived at the mall after a much needed stop at an authentic French bakery. The mall was a blast, we didn't buy much but ran into some interesting French boys. It was fun to use all the French we learned because our new friends could not speak English =)

My computer is running out of power now so I have to go but I am looking forward to another fun filled day tomorrow! au revoir!