Today was yet another adventure in the lovely country of France. We began our day by going to the school to attend some classes. I attended a physics class for a full 3 hours. Physics is a challenging class for even the best of us in English, so one can only imagine the terror us students faced at the daunting task of attending this class. While we may not have learned everything we could have about physics, we did get to meet many new friends. For the first part of the class the teacher split the french students into eight groups. Then one exchange student was put in each group. This allowed us to become acquainted with many more people who we would not have met otherwise. The rest of the class was slightly less social and slightly more confusing as we got into actual physics stuff. However, we made it through and we soon ate lunch and embarked on the next part of our journey for the day. We followed our fearless leader Kimmy J (and our slightly less fearless leader Sammy G) as she lead us through the streets of Tours. Our final destination was a river where we were split into two groups. One group was sent with Kimmy J to look and walk through the famous cathedral in Tours while the other stayed with Sammy G at the river and went on a nice boat ride. The boat ride was a very fun and educational experience. We floated leisurely down the river as a guide explained to us some important historical facts about the river (with Mr. G helping us out by translating a bit). After our little joy ride we switched with Kimmy J’s group and went to see the cathedral. We took a very short walk from the boat to the cathedral and stood outside and, like the tourists we are, took plenty of photos. Mr. G also filled us in on some important historical facts, as well as some rules, that we needed to know before entering the cathedral. After entering the massive cathedral and walking around for a bit we managed to snap a few pictures of the beautiful stained glass and not break anything. It was overall another great day for our grand adventure.
