A List of Do's and Don't

Things to do in France:

• Speak French.
• Explore (Avrille, Ponts de Ce, Saumur, La Rochelle, Strasbourg, everywhere)
• Eat bread/chocolate/nutella/cheese/other delicious things
• Send postcards
• Watch French Tv with my host mom
• Have a wonderful time!

Things NOT to do in France:

• Microwave a sandwich after putting mayonaise on it
• Empty a whole can of green beans in the frying pan while trying to cook turkey at the same time
• Step in pony poop
• Think that it's okay not to carry an umbrella around at all times
• Think that it's okay to wait until Sunday to buy groceries
• Eat an entire(big)  loaf of bread in 6 hours
• Have a half-blind cat puke in my bed again

The last week or so in France has been a whirlwind. I'm quickly learning that the weather is insane in Angers and yes it will rain, be cloudy and then be beautiful outside all within the same hour. I'm also getting acclimated to being in class again and having school work after my month-and-a-half long break. Additionally I'm ATTEMPTING to try and figure out the names of the students in my Langue class. I say attempting because over half of the students are Asian, and have Asian names which my Indo-European-speaking mouth does not want to even begin pronounce. But I'm going to try; it could take all semester but I will at some point be able to pronounce at least most of the names...I think.
Over the weekend I went out to one of the Irish Pubs in Angers with a few of my friends for drinks and good company. Needless to say it was a lot of fun and we walked around the Centre-ville and the streets around the Universite for awhile before calling it a night. The next day Betsy and I walked to the Market by the Jardain du Mail which was HUGE, even at 1230, which was actually pretty late.  The weather was sort of rainy all day, so after that we sort of just wandered around town all day and did a tiny bit of shopping before calling it a day. This brings us to Sunday, a day where NOTHING (except Macdo) is open in France and the streets are so empty that you start to wonder if there was an evacuation and you missed the memo. Which means buying the essential things like...toliet paper are a tiny bit difficult, or impossible...
Luckily Monday morning came pretty quickly and now there's a giant 12 pack of toliet paper in the bathroom, a fridge with food and a new package of do-it-yourself CREPES along with Nutella!
Suddenly, life in France is just about as great as it could be.