A Series of Fortunate Events

Greetings from across the pond!
    This week has been another one of settling and learning the ropes. Finally made some progress on opening a bank account (even though at every turn came up against obstacles like banks being closed on Mondays?!) and should also receive (finally) my student ID card this week. French class has been good. We watched L'auberge espagnole, good film if you know anything about all the EU countries. Did not fully appreciate the movie the last time I saw it but now as an international exchange student myself so many of the jokes were incredibly applicable to my life here. In addition we did a unit on labor laws and professions in France and had a cool conversation between our French teacher, a student from Switzerland and some of us from the US. International relations at work. All of our elected officials should have to spend some time chatting with people from other countries on an informal basis, it certainly provides new perspectives. Saturday I was invited to a pick up soccer game (it was 54 degrees and pretty sunny) so I went and played with an extremely international group of players all of whom were guys except me. Learned a lot of new français familier, which is good because that is what we are working on in class at the moment. We have grown our vocabularies considerably, there are a lot of phrases they just don't teach you in the states. No pictures again, it has been kind of rainy and dark. Once the sky clears up I will hopefully post some pics of school and other places we go frequently. Definitely of our favorite little boulangerie (bakery) where I pick up our bread and daily mystery dessert. Thank goodness I walk an average of 3 to 5 miles a day or I would be gaining a ton of weight just from Pain au chocolat (chocolate croissants). Please post addresses those of you who want to get postcards. Finally found a post office and will be sending the first batch soon.
      All my love from France!