I'm in France! the airplane ride was long, and I still haven't adjusted to the time change (it' only been three days). I'm in this building that is sort of a hotel, and sort of like (as the other Americans have said, although I wouldn't know) a YMCA. Until this morning, there were about seventy students here at orientation. Most of them are now with their host families, but there are seven of us still here, and we'll leave tomorrow. All of the kids here speak (spoke) some English, and most of them speak English very well, so everything we've done, we've done in English and French. Most people understand better in English, it's not just Americans and the one, token Canadian. The other dominant language among the students is German (because the Austrians and the
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