SO...

Nothing to exciting to report as of yet, as I havent had the mulah to travel yet, but I will when I get my financial aide from SU...

Still things are going well here in Grenoble, we find ways to fill our time. The thing that we end up doing most is just hanging out in a park, or more often a cafe and just chatting. Mostly just the SU kids get togather, but every once and a while we adopt another into our little circle. In partiqular we are hagging out alot at a cafe called the XIII, the triez, thirteeen in frenchm, where we have become regualars to the extent that they will let us sit there for hours after only buying one drink apiece. Its one of the really nice things about French culture, the empahsis on knowing people, it is the same way with bakeries and resturants even, when you become a regular you are treated like one of the family, the servers know your names and what you prefer to drink and will go out of their way to give you really good service when they know they can depend on your patronage. At the bakery it is more likely to be something like the freshest bread, still warm from the ovens, rather than the baguette that was baked 2 hours ago.

I have also noticed how much better my french is getting day by day, i feel like my vocabulary has exploded since I got here. To the point where I can have disscussions about politics and religion and the things on the news with my host family and if I dont know a word, no matter how complicated, I can explain AROUND the thing that I want to say and then they tell me and so this is how I learn new words! I have also discovered that I am alot better at French than I thought I was, but that I just didnt really respond well to being put on the spot at no notice and without volunteering in class. It just takes me a second to gather thoughts and the right vocabulary around me.

Well thats it for now! Hopefully next time I write I will have gone somewhere exciting, and I will post pictures as soon as I get my computer!