CROWS!!

I had to write this post because what happened is too funny to forget. Sara and I were making the 20-minute walk back to the Institute in Tours when a car of guys drove by and one of them CROWED at us. It was hilarious. It wasn't "cock-a-doodle-do" but it was some French version of it. Both of us were so confused/frightened/overwhelmed by the urge to laugh that we just kept walking until I asked Sara, "Did that just happen?"

In other news, today was my last lunch at Goutez chez Sam, the most delicious Indian/Sri Lankan restaurant with cheap sandwiches with lots of salad inside cheese-filled nan.

Yesterday, I visited a place where they make silk by hand, and I was really sick - I almost fainted and I had to go sit with a professor outside. She was so nice to me though - told me about how much she wanted to visit the US (her daughter studies English). She also made me feel much better because she was so motherly to me (I was kind of scared, I felt so lightheaded). She also asked me if my parents were French or if I spoke at home, (we were speaking French together) - which kind of made my afternoon.

Last night, we went out with some of the professors to get drinks, and it was really fun.

I am really sad to leave my family, but I am looking forward to our last dinner. We are going to buy them flowers on the way home and make chocolate chip cookies.

Tomorrow I'm going to Paris - I'll be in the 16th arrondissement, which is right by the Arc de Triomphe, Champs Elysee, and Tour Eiffel. It's the wealthiest district in Paris, which is exciting, but I hope the family isn't too bourgeois. The father is Martin Hirch (I wikepediaed him) and the mother is a journalist for Le Monde. I'm excited - I'll let you know how everything is tomorrow.

Be online tomorrow afternoon, because I'll be in Paris and I'll probably use someone else's wireless in my building to talk!!!!

bisous!