finally on a real computer

im in a cyber cafe by my house right now, so a quick update since its 1 euro for every 15 minutes.

-we went to vence the other day (not provence or venice), hiked more than expected, and went to a church that henri matisse designed. pretty neat.

-i started school on tuesday, its fun. i start at 8:45 am and go until 12:45 pm. i have two classes, grammar and conversation, with a 15 minute break in between. there are 7 people in my class: a lady from russia, a girl from croatia, a boy from denmark, and a girl from sweden, then rachel and chelsea and i from chapman. i have a test tomorrow and supposedly am getting moved up to another class level with everyone next week.

-went to the beach and the modern art museum in nice yesterday after school--it was wayyyy cool! the modern art museums here are so awesome.

-my host mom made this cool dinner last night...i forgot what its called, but its basically a table top grill that has little trays under it. she put chicken and steak on the top level to cook, then put slices of a gruyere-like cheese in the trays on the bottom to melt. she also baked potatoes to go with it. to serve, she peeled the potatoes and we all took a potato with some meat and then poured the melted cheese from the tray over the mixture...it was soooo so yummy. the grill was made by t-fal so it cant be that hard to find.

-we went to the fragonard fragrance museum in a town called eze today...it rained then was extremely hot. the weather has been so wacky--there have been rumors of thunderstorms for a few days but it has yet to happen.

-tonight we are going to thor to watch the germany vs. croatia euro cup match...it should be a good game! afterward we are going to a pizza place for dinner.

we are going to take a few day trips this weekend since it ended up being next to impossible to take the train to italy like we thought we were going to do since there is a train strike this week. we are planning on going to the beach, taking a trip to aix-en-provence (the real one) and possibly st. tropez if time permits.

ciao ciao!