After arriving I spent three relaxing days at a Rotarians country home. While there I spent an afternoon touring the countryside and nearby villages. I saw a lot of old buildings and took lots of pictures J Here are a few.

Then on the Saturday my host family came and picked me up. The next week I spent hanging out with my host siblings and doing a little exploring. My host mom and siblings spent an entire afternoon with me going around the center of Dijon and showing me my school, which by the way is gigantic. It was built by Napoleon around 200 years ago. I believe it’s an old fort or something. It has three floors and three courtyards. About three thousand students attend Carnot (my school), that includes the younger grades as well as preparatory classes that are offered there (they are classes that you can take before going on to university or whatever). I started school this Tuesday. Every day but Wednesday I have class from 8 in the morning until 6 at night. However I have a spare hour or so every day because I’m not taking any languages (ie. Chinese or Spanish or German). Sometimes it’s really hard because many of my teachers speak really fast French. However I have an English literature class that promises to be really cool. I also am taking two other English classes which probably seems like a complete waste of time however I learned a lot of new French words thanks to my English class this week. Yesterday my teacher taught a lesson based on a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. It was amusing and also educational because we had to translate it into French.

I also met a bunch of other Rotarians at a dinner. It was great they were all very nice AND they didn’t laugh when I messed up my French. The dinner was outside and I was in a metal chair. At one point in started sinking into the ground so my yeo put this wooden thing under it and I was suddenly taller, the Rotarians were very amused. It was a great night J

The weekend before I started school we stayed a few nights at my host mom’s parents place and they took me to a winery and we went into the cellars. It’s a famous champagne brand called Mercier. I also got to go into the grape fields and to a cooperative where people make wine. It was awesome. You know what tastes awesome? Grapes fresh off the vine. :D

That’s really all that’s happened. So yeah. Here are some more pictures J

 Yes that is a giant wine barrel. I don’t know who the random lady is…