Salut Mes Amis! Now that I'm back in France, I figure I'll resort back to French greetings...anyway, I realized that I haven't done a blog yet alerting you all to the wonders of the place I'm calling home at the moment: Aix-en-Provence. Aix (for short) is a small, I guess what you could call, college town. Right now I'm asking myself if I ever left Harrisonburg! But surely I did, because Harrisonburg doesn't contain beaucoups of fountains, have cobblestone streets, or local boulangeries (bread/sandwich shops). Also missing would be the English language, where as here, I must order a sandwich and ask for different size shoes when shopping, in French. Similarities aside, Aix is fabulous. A typical day in the life of a student in Aix would first include waking up to sunshine. Seriously, the sun
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