So, after waking up at SIX AM, I have now tested and passed as a level B1 DELF certified french speaker. Whoo. hoo. NOT worth the sleep I so sadly missed.

ANYWAY,  our weekend excursion "Centre Renaissance" has been cancelled. Darn, I guess the Bucknell students will miss out on eating turkey legs and watching a jousting match. I am really excited to have the weekend off, just chillaxing here in TOURS. I like Tours alot. It is a "city," I guess. It has many stores. And that is very cool. But, at the same time, its small enough that people are really nice. Unlike that RUUHUDE city, Paris. Paris is good for visiting, Tours is good for living. That's my saying.

What I love about Tours:

I can run here. I can shop here. I can learn my way around the whole city and still have new parts to discover. I can feel confident enough to explore. I can look forward to coming back here after time away. I can take the train whenever I want to get away. I can walk anywhere I need to go. Food is not so expensive. I have figured out all the really great places to go... like this great crepe place I love and have been twice. And the grocery store is pretty cool (Monoprix <3).

Ok. That's a lot of great things in one city. Definitely enough to keep me happy for only one semester.

Wikipedia Tours

According to that link, we speak the purest form of french in Tours. Well good. I don't want to speak impurely.
Also, Zaz, this really popular singer was born here. But I'm not proud of that because although I've never heard her songs because I listen to my ipod at the gym, I have seen her music video a million times and I am SICK of it. So Zaz, I'm not proud of you, stop creeping on my life.

But also, learned on wikipedia that SPRINGFIELD USA is a twin city of Tours. What up Dad???

there are a lot of great things about Tours. One is that every Wed and Sat mornings there are street markets. They sell flowers (which is beautiful to walk past and I used to walk past when i came to school from my old house- shudder), fresh meats, cheese, fruit, and then cheapy merchandise.

I plan on going to the market tomorrow. After a run. and enjoy my free day in this lil city.