9/4/11

Today started out on a sour note for me. I kept waking up in the middle of the night. The jet lag was really getting to me. Once up though I was ready to go. Professor Canovas brought us to an open air market and taught us how to buy things and what was grown locally. He showed us a little more around town and one of the avenues in old town. Le rue Marchent… basically the street was built in the middle ages as a merchant avenue. There were lots of printing shops there when it first became big. Now the street is full of resturants. The best place to eat in France according to Canovas. He stopped mid tour and told us he wanted to show us a secret only residents of Lyon knew. He started walking into a restaurant and we were really confused but followed after him. He rounded a little corner and all the sudden we were in a mini back alley. He explained they were called trouble and the French built them in as passage ways to get up the hill faster for selling goods in multiple places. He also explained that during World War 2 there was a secret army the French had called le resistance that took out nazi armies as they moved through france. They used these passageways to move around the city and get away from the Nazis because it is almost impossible to find the entrance of them without a local’s help. So go ahead and tell my brother in laws and everyone else that is just the Parisian men in france that are pansy’s. The people of Lyon are fighters. :D

After that we went to a little café and prof Canovas bought us all breakfast. We walked around some more and wandered through the mideval district. When Canovas had to leave Allma, Felicia, Melinda and I bought a local dessert and visited some local fountains and sculptures that are famous around here. We got in the cable car to go home and it ended up POURING rain by the time we got back to the dorms. So we stayed inside for a while and went to mcdonalds to get some internet.

After that we went out in search of dinner and ended up having the BEST crepes I’ve ever had in my life. They were amazing. We met the newest addition to our program and we are out with her now at the internet place in mcdonalds. We met another student from our dorms from Bolivia and he seems really nice.

Not much else to report. Sorry I’m trying to hurry this one so I don’t sit here too long.

Tell dad I’m sorry I couldn’t find the time or place of the church without internet, plus we had a meeting with canovas this morning. IF he wants to send that to me I’d be really greatful. Thanks! Love you all!