Out and About, and I Totally Went to a Party.

Wednesday afternoon I registered and I got my student ID! Woo!

Candice and Lyndsie wanted to go to the library afterwards, so I tagged along.

When they were building the library, they uncovered an ancient roman mozaic floor, so they decided to build around it.

What? Your library wasn't built around awesome ancient stuff that's older than the US? That's a shame.

Also, they have a fairly large collection of music! I'm going to grab some next time I'm there.

Across the street is the Hotel de Ville.

Also, throughout Limoges, there are seashells on the ground. These mark the path of El Comino de Santiago.

That night there was an "Integration Party," which was to help welcome International Students. It was literally a hole in the wall, down a cobbled alleyway. The place was packed, as was the street. I really enjoyed the vibe, but the amount of people was a little much for us. I found Julia and we talked for a few minutes, but then the bar was starting to get complaints about the noise from the neighbors so everyone was being told to come inside. At this point the Americans said our goodbyes and headed home for the night.

La Marquise Assoiffée

THURSDAY

The FLE placement test was at 2. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't super fantastic either. The listening part was very difficult and they only let you hear it once. Fortunately I spoke with Hunter and Candice about it afterwards, and it seemed they had just as much of a problem as I did. So I might be like, level 1-2 for listening and speaking, and level 2-3ish for everything else. Heck, I'll just be ecstatic to not be placed in level one.

It was weird though because the test was set up that it was supposed to become more difficult the further along you went, but I would be stumped on something in level 2, and then have a better grasp on something in level 3 or even maybe a little of level 4.

To reward ourselves afterwards we stopped by the Carrefour so Candice could get her daily dose of bananas, and I grabbed a few as well as cherry tomatoes (my fruit obsession).

Since we had some time before the bus came we also went by to the Quick to see what it had to offer. A cheeseburger and fries sounded good.

Well, it definitely looked like fast food, and it tasted like it too. They put some weird pink sauce on the burger though, and I really, really did not like it. I ended up trying to wipe it off and drowning it in ketchup. It kind of worked, but I was still saddened.

I was then also saddened by the food at dinner. They had lasagna that..it just wasn't what I wanted, and it was dry in my opinion. Also, the sides were noodles or cooked veggies; the cooked veggies turned out to be JUST celery. BARF. I HATE celery. Yes, I needed to use bold, caps, underline, and italics just to give you the idea how much I am disgusted by celery.

Today was not a fantastic French food day. I hope there are not many more like this.