Final day in Tours

9:21 p.m. (I’ve decided that since I don’t always have internet access, I’m just going to type entries and post them later…so I figured I’d put the time when I’m actually writing them at the beginning)
Hello again,
So it’s my last day in Tours, and I must say it’s been really good so far-the weather’s been perfect, my presentation went well, and I went on an awesome excursion to the Chateau de Villandry. Some of the other presentations were interesting-everyone got to choose there topics, and one was on the French views on American topics. They had some interesting statistics, apparently about 84% of French people feel Obama is the best candidate, whereas McCain is at a lowly 6%, or something amazingly low like that…pretty crazy, if only Americans had similar statistics. The biggest news today was we finally found out who our host families are going to be in Paris! My host Mom’s name is Madame de Dreux Brézé (I’m hoping the “de” means she’s from a rich family, we’ll see), and her address is in the 17th arondissement in Paris. Unfortunately, it’s one of the outer arondissements in Paris, but apparently it’s supposed to be a really rich and nice area, and judging by a map I found I’ll be close to a metro access, so it should be good ! Hopefully I won’t have any problems meeting up with my friends in arondissements; since we all have cell phones over here it should be fine, it’ll just take me a few days to get my bearings and figure out how the whole metro thing works. So yeah, we leave for Paris tomorrow at around 2pm, after our morning classes. I’m excited!
As I said, I also went on an excursion to Chateau Villandry, a beautiful chateau surrounded by amazing gardens, one of which had grapes, pears, and apples growing…pretty cool. I took lots of pictures, got a little carried away, it was just so gorgeous and was perfect weather-the best we’ve had for a while. Also, yesterday I learned that there are about 5 students doing the Sweet Briar Program from Mount Holyoke/Holy Oak? (I don’t actually know how to spell it…sorry Grandma). I told them my Grandma went there (glossing over the fact that you transferred); apparently it has gotten a LOT more liberal over there, lots of lesbians running around fighting for their rights I guess ;). Anyways, thought Grandma would find that interesting…good old Mount Holyoke/Holy Oak/whatever.
Alrighty then, since it’s the last night in Tours just about everyone is going out tonight to hit up Place Plume (where all the students/young folk hang out at night) for some drinks, maybe some dancing, we’ll see. Off I go!
Amour,
Brittany (Bree-tah-nee, as they say here)