Busy weekend!

Last weekend was a pretty crazy one. We were busy pretty much the whole time. It's amazing that we don't have school a lot but we never seem to be bored. Things will change starting next week when we start our other classes (art history, French civilization, theater and continued French).

Friday night a bunch of us went out and had a lot of fun, we didn't get back until almost 3 but we didn't have anything planned for Saturday so it wasn't a big deal. I woke up on Saturday around 9:30 and went for a run; it was pouring and I ended up getting soaked. After a nice hot shower I went to brunch (one of the best meals at the college): cereal, pain au chocolat, yogurt, croissants, eggs, meat and crepes avec nutella!!! A bunch of girls decided to go to Antibes to see the Picasso museum so I joined in. We had to figure out how to take the train; it was confusing because everyone told us different things, but eventually we made it (there were 12 of us).

By the time we got there we were hungry and stopped at a weird cafe place to eat the weirdest sandwiches ever (very large flat white pieces of bread with only 1 slice of tomato, 2 pieces of "bacon" and tons of lettuce). Then we went in search of the Picasso museum...it's closed for a year while they do renovations. So we hung out in Antibes until 6 when we caught a train back to Cannes. We didn't do anything exciting that night since we had our big excursion the next day.

Sunday morning we woke up early to go to Monaco and Eze. We loaded onto the bus and started driving. After awhile we arrived and took a tour of the city/country/whatever it is. We saw the palace where Prince Albert lives, it's pretty sweet. We ate lunch in a cute little park overlooking the water and we fed our gross mush bread to the pigeons. Then we walked around for a little while until we decided to sit down for a little treat and some people watching.

At 1 we met up with the group for a tour of the Oceanographic Museum. It was a lot like the MN zoo but with different fish in the aquariums. Some of it seemed a little inhumane since there was an octopus in a tank the size of my suitcase (I also tried not to remember that we had calimari for dinner the night before!). We went up to the next level and my friend Hillary decided she wanted to go in the gift shop...once you go in the gift shop you can't go back in the museum, so we had extra time to kill and hung out in another pretty park overlooking some more water (there's tons of water to be found in these parts!)

We met up with the rest of the group at 2:30 and then headed off to Eze (we were supposed to see Monte Carlo too but apparently it isn't that cool and we couldn't do anything there because we're poor and we didn't have much time). Eze is a perched medieval city and it is quite the hike to get up there. Once you do you have to pay money to get the best view and the best pictures (I did not pay but once I get the pictures from the people who did I will add them). We also visited a perfume factory while we were there. It was amazing and cleared my head up a lot (I've had a bit of a head cold). It was fun to go around and smell the stuff but it got really hard to tell the difference between different scents. We got back in our bus around 5:30 and headed back to the college for dinner.

That's pretty much it for new things. My class is going really well and I'm hoping to move up 2 levels next week but we'll have to see. This weekend will be another busy one. Friday night there is a big party at the college because it's the end of the session and a bunch of people are leaving and then we are going to Arles and Avignon as a CSB/SJU group excursion. We'll be leaving on Saturday morning and coming back Sunday evening. I really love getting to see all the different places although they are all starting to run together. I have tons of pictures of hills covered in red roofed buildings on the water. I'm hoping to post pictures this week since I've now burned a bunch to a CD so make sure to check back and look through all the old messages to see the pictures!