Thursday, September 3, 2009

The beginning...

Yes, I am finally in France! While plane rides aren't bad, I'm pretty much over airports. CGD is huge!

Nantes is beautiful, and many of the apartments look exactly as you would imagine them to be. Also, they weren't kidding about it always being cloudy...and it was raining as we were trying to walk around to a few places today =). Hopefully it will be nicer for our orientation days in Vannes.

Here are some views from the IES center, where most of my classes are---
 
 


The family I am staying with is super nice, they would hardly let me carry my bags anywhere, and i live practically on the roof! The apartment is at the top of the stairs, and inside there are more stairs that lead up to my room. There's a huge window so I can look up and see the gray sky.

Jet-lag effects are kicking in, so it is now time for me to crash. =)

3 comments:

  1. Cool view! Looks great. I guess I should say it's great that your host family is sooooo nice!

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  2. mmmm...steps. my favorite.
    im glad there nice! we were all worried about that! i wanna see what they look like though....

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  3. Wow, great photos and description of Day #1. I'm (we're) soooo glad the city looks cool, you made it with your luggage (remember Mama's trip to Equador and lost luggage?), and the family is so nice. Oh, and did I tell you 'Great photos!'? Love ya...

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