Day 3

6:00 AM, demon dogs barked their heads off in the courtyard. 7:00 AM my alarm goes off.

7:50AM my roomie wakes me up.... 10 mins before we leave.

But we were the first ones outside where we met with three Sciences-Po students.

The group sluggishly made their way to Sciences-Po (the really nice building this time) via bus. It was slightly awkward when at 8AM we were riding the bus with the silent Parisians and one girl from our group spoke really really loudly. She didn't notice. But later on in the day we became that typical loud American group when we were on the metro so she was not the only one... but that was after a night out... Hopefully we will avoid being the loud group after this week... and blend into the French culture a little better as opposed to sticking out like dust on a black dress under a blacklight.

We were quite late so when we arrived we were greeted by the vice president of Sciences-Po as opposed to eating breakfast first. He greeted us warmly and explained his vision for the future of education.... the interconnection of schools and cultures. He was the founder of the program eight years ago. Then we met a few more administrative people and proceeded to juice, coffee and mini pastries.

After that meeting we went to our first French lesson. The teachers put us into two groups, level one and level two. They determined the groups by asking us a series of questions... like our name, how to spell it, what we liked to do and where we live. They adjusted the questions for each person depending on how they responded. Some of the responses were quite funny and amusing and the two teachers had a great sense of humor. They were constantly smiling and laughing. It was quite nice.

I was in group one but had pretty good pronunciation. I was able to help some of the students around me as well! : ) The lesson was entirely in French which was fantastic... opposite of my Spanish classes in high school.

Later we had lunch in the cafeteria, got our Sciences-Po emails activated and went to the old building for a meeting about some administrative stuff.

We then walked to the Musée d'Orsay were we got a guided tour of a little old french lady who was all dressed in purple and had a strong demanding voice and quite good English. We all had microphones in order to hear her no matter where we were. We saw sooo many good paintings and I got to see a part of that museum that i had never seen before.

I will add more pictures to the blog tomorrow to further explain what words can't.

Then... dorm, salad at the dorm, grocery shopping, crepe, and sports bar for Serbia Vs France!!!

Bets were on... but tied game. Serbia will soon qualify for the world cupppp wooooo :)

The group was lured into a bar by the bartender who said he would give many free drinks if we would go... and sure enough we attracted even more people soon after since we were a large group of ten. Ebbe, Chris, and I went to the next bar over that had a better TV so we could watch the game. After we rejoined everyone in the first bar and danced to good music and talked. I had a cranberry juice the whole night but it looked like the rest of the group had quite a good collection of empty glasses.

Anyway.... we made it back home safe from the meto...

and now i'm in a rush to close this computer and go sleep...

my apologies

: )