Bonjour! So Tuesday was my first day of classes here in Montpellier and it should be an interesting semester. I have about 3hours of french everyday except for Wednesday when I have no classes and then 2 electives in French and another class called "Laboratoire" which I'm not quite sure of what it is yet...donc on verra! lol. And then there is my service class that goes with my volunteering which is 2hours a week. Not a bad schedule. Monday I also started my volunteer service with Pharmaciens sans Frontieres. I work with older people, who are all in their 60, 70s, and 80s, and then there's a French kid named Frederic who's 21; but they are very nice and only speak french, so its great for me because I am forced to speak french...yeah! lol ... read more

So yesterday we went to the town of St. Guilhem le Desert which is located i think in the beginning part of the Massif Central in France. In 804 Guillaume, Earl of Toulouse, came to the Valley of Gellone and visited and two years later decided to become a monk and live in teh Gellone Valley. This village became a part of the route for the pilgrimage to Santiago de Copeostella. It was a cool little town in the middle of mountains and we spent the afternoon there and had a guided tour. Later, we had time to go hiking up the mountains. It is here that the cloister museum in New York comes from because an american bought part of it (i believe 148 pieces form here) and they are now the centrepiece of the ... read more

So this weekend was my second weekend in France and first official weekend in Montpellier. Last night I watched the movie WHAT WOMEN WANT with Perrine and Luci and discovered that there is wireless here in the house but i can only get it in Luci's room so voila.... Today we went to see the movie HOODWINKED but in French. They spoke really fast so I didnt understand everything but it was a cute movie. Afterwords we stopped at the Creperie and all bought crepesi chose nutella. yummmy, lol Tomorrow I have my oral and written exams so they can find our level of French for our classes. Wish me luck! My mom has been sending me photos of home and all the snow so I hope everything is going well and enjoy the snow for ... read more

So I discovered yesterday that here in France "Where's Waldo" is "Ou est Charlie" (Where's Charlie) en francais. I bought one of the books because I thought that was awesome that he's in France and it's a different book than the ones I have. Voila... ... read more

So yesterday was another fun day. Joy and I walked aournd the city of Montpellier trying to find our way around. We had to meet at IML with Alexendre to watch a movie about the serivice-learning part of the program and then I was able to choose where I wanted to be working. For the next 3 months Ill be tutoring students between the ages of 10 and 17 years old English and I will also be going to the Institut Saint Pierre, which is a school/ hospital for handicapped children and teaching them English and other stuff I believe. I begin that next week and then my studies also start the following week. Dinner last night was fun too. We had to speak English again because Ricardo is here and so its kind of cheating ... read more