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Last week was a whirlwind, and I'm glad I'm keeping a journal because otherwise I would have nothing interesting to write. My brain must be too busy right now to keep up.

To start off the week, we had our first class (linguistics) and things went pretty smoothly. After class, we all just kind of wandered about town. It's funny how many things I totally missed last time. For example, we went to one of the gardens and there were wallabies, bunnies, weird chickens, ostrages,goats, and some others that I don't recall.



Tuesday was crazy long. It started with a meeting at the bank to open an account....let's just say that about 100 signatures later, I think I have one. They litterally have an inch thick file on me now. Crazy.

After that, the rest of the day was spent in class. Since we aren't really "in the know" about what is good to take or not, we just tried everything that seemed okay. It's a good thing we did that too because we sat through one course that we thought would be perfect and it turned out that we needed a base in latin to follow along at all. Scary stuff. Everything is working out school wise though. It's going to be a challenge, but that's exactly what I signed up for:)

As far as fun things go, this week I cooked a lot more and got inventive. One night I needed to use up several tomatoes from the market (mostly so I could buy more...so yummy and like 6 for a euro) so I made tomates au four. I'm guessing we just call them baked tomatoes in english...sounds weird??? Yes, it was a lot of tomatoes but oh so delicious. I also toasted some baguette with fresh chevre on top!

Tonight, I made a yummy soupe aux lentilles:) Delicious yet again...and pretty healthy too! Oh, I forgot to tell about the amazing student price we found at a local sandwich stand. For three euro, a student gets a sandwich (on a baguette), two pain au chocolats, and a can of pop! What a deal. Or i can go to the cafeteria and have a full meal for the same price....but I prefer taking my lunch to the park to eat and people watch when it's nice out.



Friday night I went out with a few of the other students and we had a great time. First, Jenna and I went to take pics of the cathedral at night, and then we went down to the river where there was a jazz band playing and people line dancing! It was fantastic and so very French. Loved it.


Yesterday passed without much to note...a bit of shopping, organizing, homework, and cleaning.

And finally, that brings us to today...what a wonderful day!!!!! This morning I went to church and we had communion, sangs songs I new, and listend to a sermon that was like many I've heard before about "l'amour de Dieu" but in French it really comes across better:) Then, this afternoon I was invited to have lunch with some of the people in the church...and they also invited some others that were my age. Finally, I got to know a few young adults and learned that they actually have a Bible study each week together and they invited me!!!! Yay. Needless to say we had a great afternoon eating, laughing, and strangely enough playing Wii!

Just last night before I went to bed, I prayed asking God to make a way for me to meet some French Christians my age to help me grow and become a part of this society. Wow, He answered my prayer quickly! Anyway, I'm just so thankful to have met some new people.

After a wonderful lunch and dessert (yum) we went to the ruins near their house and also to the flee markets. Here's some pictures. And also the family that organised this afternoon.




Well, I better get to bed. Class in the morning and then the rest of the day in the library preparing for my first presentation in a couple of weeks. Thanks to all of you who have been praying for me. As you can tell, God is good and faithful in all things:)