We got wifi and we're watching the bachelor

I just dropped my Friday class and am now taking a Population Dynamics course! It's actually perfect because I was trying to take a course similar to this at UVA. Most importantly I have officially opened up more time for travel on the weekend. Yayyyyy

We just watched Smallville which has just come out with dubbed French voices on television here. We just sort of stared at their lips move and tried to pick up a few words. My goal is to be able to make it through these shows without falling asleep by the end of the semester (but let's be real, I could never really do that in America where the shows are in English)...

Today we took a tour of the area near Sciences Po. There are beautiful cobblestone streets and this really famous statue made after one of those French wars. The best part about the statue though is that it has a man on a horse and someone managed to spray paint the balls of the horse blue.

We also saw Saint Sulpice, a church mentioned in the DaVinci Code (that's right...it's a five minute walk from my school). Our tour guide told us that the church has had some problems with tourists coming and trying to excavate the floor tile looking for treasure. The priest even had to make a public announcement that there is indeed no secret treasure beneath the floor and all visitors must stop trying to break it.

We also saw these little figurine shops, which is apparently a tradition to give at Christmas. That way, you can build up a small village to put out at Christmastime with all of your collected figurines. This is either a special French tradition (which would explain why Steven's mother puts out her Christmas village every year), or it's just a holiday thing (which is why I'm too busy playing with my menorah to realize that Americans do it too).

My professor's name is Gregoire. I thought my block would appreciate that.