Today we broke up into groups of about 5 and did different things. My group went to the Tours’ town hall. Like every building in Tours, it is very old. It is a big white building that kind of looked like a castle. The inside and the outside were both made of limestone. The inside featured beautiful handmade carvings, shown in the picture of the ceiling. We were given a tour by the international relation person for Tours and some guy from Ohio who was doing an internship in Tours. The guy from Ohio was supposed to help translate, although he said nothing the entire time. We saw three rooms: the city council room, the “party” room and the marriage room. The council room looked the same as in the USA. The party room is rented out by people and is a large, fancy room. The marriage room is just a room, but is important because in France, all marriages have to be done in the city hall to be official. In the afternoon, we either went to a movie or cooked.
