I guess you can call it school...

My goodness… And to think I was actually a little nervous about coming here (I can admit that now because I’ve left). I absolutely love it in France for so many reasons. For starters the school is beautiful and the entire campus looks over Geneva, Switzerland which not exactly bad to look at day or night. I also learned that it is acceptable to skip a day of school for a hike up the mountain. Ya the entire school (elementary, high school and college) took a day off to climb up the Salève and spend the entire day up the mountain playing sports and socializing. The hike up was actually pretty intense, It only takes about 30-40 minutes but its pretty dang steep. Anyways we spent the entire day playing volleyball and attempting to tell everybody how to play “American Football.” At first it wasn’t that bad but as quarterback I soon learned that it isn’t extremely easy to make plays in French and English. But we played nevertheless and it was a good time, but also probably one of the worst representations of American football ever. Many of us also spent a good amount of time talking to the high schoolers trying to learn French and laughing at our cultural differences by trying each others accents and such. Whoever told me that the people in France were jerks who hated Americans obviously never came to this part of France.

Speaking of Geneva I finally got to go down there and it did not disappoint. It is a beautiful city and honestly I didn’t go into any stores just because I wanted to see everything. We did take a short stop in a cathedral, which was magnificent. Despite the fact that there were probably 20 people inside, it was hard enough to breathe quietly enough as not to disturb somebody.

Anyways, there isn’t a lot going on here yet I am always busy doing something it seems. Most of our time is filled with French class or French homework but that’s not all bad because homework is an excuse to go down into Collonges and study at the patisserie, which has some pretty awesome “study food.” Its easy to buy a baguette longer than my arm for less than a Euro., I think I have bought 4 since my arrival less than 2 weeks ago… The rest of our time is spent doing numerous activities such as making pizza (didn’t turn out well), slack lining, the occasional french film, rock climbing, and other various sports.

Well, I guess that’s all for now. I am sure there are many adventure to come but right now its just school except way more fun than regular school. I have a feeling I’ll be spoiled when I get back because I’m already complaining when I have a class in the afternoon, which is only once a week. But no matter… Life is good.