Day 2 by Julia

Today was the first full day in Tours! For me, the day started off at 6:20 (which was very hard given the jet lag). After a very good breakfast we drove to school. We stood outside the school in their courtyard until 8:10 when we had a meeting with all the people involved in the exchange. During this meeting we went over the schedule for the week and talked about the different field trips we will be going on. Then we went to class with our correspondents. The first class I attended was math. The students were reviewing there homework which was geometry based and then did some in class practice problems which I got to try as well. The second class I went to was Spanish. The beginning of the class was homework review and then the students read about an event in history and discussed what they had read (I found this very similar to what we do in French classes at CA). Classes ended at 12:00 and then we went to lunch. The lunch system was very different then CA. They have to swipe student ID’s and get food single file in a lunch line. Regardless, the lunch was very good .  Then we took the bus to a boat tour on the river Loire. There are many houses, buildings and even a castle that sit right along side the river. The tour guide talked about the history of these buildings as well as some of the wildlife found in the river. There are lot of beavers found in the river and we got to see the how different beavers bite the trees. One of the coolest things you can see is a very old and rustic hotel. Many of the rooms are actually built into the caves that run along the river side. After the boat we went to a grocery store to purchase a variety of drinks, french cookies and sodas before taking the bus back to school.

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