I love Georgetown, but...France is pretty awesome too.

So...It's been a few days since I got here and I figured I'd let everyone know what's going on. I'm living with a family right in the middle of Strasbourg, about 2 minutes from the big cathedral that's in Centre Ville. It's called Notre Dame de Strasbourg...very original. But also gorgeous. It's about a 1/2 hour walk from where I have classes though...so I've been doing a lot of walking. The family is very nice, although I'm pretty shy around them because of the language difference. I can understand things they ask me and answer them decently, but I can't keep up with everyday conversation yet with all the slang...hopefully that'll change. The mom's a Spanish professor, the dad's a musician, and there are three kids: Cléa, who I think is 16 (our coordinator told me the kids were between 10 and 15 though, I think she lied), Pablo is almost 15, and Clara is 12. Oh, and Néo the cat, who likes to jump on my bed at 1 am and scare the crap out of me, hide in my closet, and chew through my microphone cords and such.

Anyhow, the city is really pretty small. You can walk anywhere within an hour, I'd say. There are a couple rivers that run through the whole thing, so there are always tourist boats going back and forth. We found people with canoes and decided to rent some today, but apparently they're from either a private boathouse or somewhere outside of the city about 4 miles away. Because mostly everyone was out til 4 apparently (I gave up at 2ish), we're going to wait for another day to try to find them. We've been spending most of our time either with the 11 Georgetown kids, a group of people from BC, and a few other internationals. I feel like I should be using more French, but that will definitely start tomorrow, when classes start. We don't register until Wednesday, and the way it works out, I have to take 10 classes to get 5 Georgetown equivalents. But if I don't get all my classes I want...I'm kind of screwed. Oh well. Everything will work out hopefully. And if not...eh. I'll travel, take what I can, and be screwed when I get back to school. 6 classes again anyone?

In any case, I'm having a good time. We might go to Paris this weekend, which should be fun. We're also talking about going to Egypt, which is random, but awesome sounding.

Hope everyone's doing well!