Friends!

That's right. I made some! I only had to go to France to do so... just kidding! (kind of.)

So today began around noon when Anissa made Croque Monsieurs for us and one of her friends. These were different than the one I had at the cafe, pretty much grilled cheese sandwiches with a slice of ham in the middle. They were cool though because they have this machine thing that presses the edges together, so it becomes this warm, gooey, French hot pocket like thing. And we had some yummy melon.

I have been talking on facebook with some other assistants and I had planned to meet up with some today. Well, I did! We went to le Capitole and met up with some other people there. The girls we met up with are studying in Toulouse, so they'd been here for a little longer, so they showed us around a bit. We walked down to la Garonne and saw le Pont Neuf, which was really beautiful.


From left to right we have a person from: Italy, Ireland, England, and America. Cool, huh? So many accents!

So, after our walk by the river, we went to a pub for a quick beer before heading back home. When I got back to the apartment I was the only one home, so I heated up some leftovers for dinner. As I was finishing up, Christophe came home from climbing, so I sat at the table while he ate and we had another great talk. It's so interesting to hear different opinions and see what stereotypes are true or false, etc. For instance- did you know that most French people don't actually hate Americans? They hate Americans who come to France and immediately expect everyone to speak English to them even though they're in France, which luckily I am not.

I'm a little disappointed that I'm staying in on my first Saturday night in France, but I'm going to have a busy day tomorrow I believe, so I'm okay with it. I guess. Tomorrow, the plan is bike to this market in the morning. Biking in itself should be interesting because these streets/drivers are crazy. But, I guess the market is like part farmers market, part flea market, part bookstore, but entirely cool. I'm really looking forward to it. After that I'm going to meet up with Brian and Elizabeth and start trying to contact people about apartments, but I don't think we'll have much luck on Sunday. Who knows though, maybe we'll get lucky.

Wish us bonne chance!