Carcasonne

Today we went to Carcassonne, a fortified city. It was very interesting and castle like, but the guided group tour was pretty annoying again and it was overcast for the first time since we got here. It was pretty cold out in comparison. All these excursions are nice but they keep us so busy that I have no time to get settled. Things close early here so it’s difficult to get things done when you are busy all day long. The pre-stage classes aren’t really helping that much, so I really wish they had given us this week to get settled into our new places before starting classes on September 8^th. We have class tomorrow, then wine tasting for our civilization class (tough stuff I know), then Tuesday we have class and signing up for classes, Wednesday class and final exam for civilization. Thursday APPEARS to be a free afternoon. MAYBE I can get internet set up then. The no internet thing makes life very difficult. I went to a cyber café today and the keyboards are so difficult. You have to hit shift to type a “.” And all the keys are in the wrong place and for the @ symbol, you have to press a special key that took me an hour to find. Difficult. Oh France. My comprehension has gotten a lot better though. My speaking…not really. I do end up translating a lot for Jade though. She almost refuses to speak French, and she can’t understand what people are saying most of the time. I enjoy translating a lot though actually. Maybe I’ll do something with that. It helps me learn better when both of us are depending on me understanding and being able to speak. I want to meet some French people in classes because that seems to be helping people here a lot. Class again tomorrow, so I should probably go to bed.