♪ Here, have a flower on me... ♫

Well, we arrived safely at the home of Monsieur and Madame Devarenne. Madame Devarenne is so nice! We sat and talked for a while when Paris and I got here, and then she drove us around Boulogne to show us places to shop and things to do. She showed us where the big tennis match will be held in the middle of the month, and the Metro station and the best place to get food. (It's on the corner of our street, like twenty steps away!) She also bought us little flowers to go in our windows, which was so cute. :) They have a tiny dog who doesn't bark or anything. They also have 10 or so grandchildren, but we haven't met them yet.

My computer's being pretty frustrating. For some reason, it couldn't connect to the internet, even though I tried a million times and restarted my computer and everything. It finally started working, but it's pretty faulty still. It logs off every so often and I can't connect to the network again for several minutes. :P

There are some really interesting things about the house where we're staying. For one thing, all the bedrooms are tiled, no carpet or wood floors. The living room downstairs has wood floors, I think, but not the bedrooms. Also, there's no shower. lol. Just a bath tub. I haven't taken a real bath since I was little! Only showers. So that's interesting. lol.

I just got back from eating dinner with the family. They all seem very nice. The youngest is 24, her name is Aude, and she works as a chiropractor (or something like that, her job isn't exactly the same thing, but close). The second oldest was there too. She has two kids and is expecting one more. They talked a lot, and it was fun to listen even though I was lost sometimes.

For dinner we ate fruit first (cantaloupe that was soooo yummy!) and then we had a main course of salmon, potatoes au gratin, and this mashed zucchini stuff. After that we had cheese (so many different kinds!) and bread, followed by dessert. They bought chocolate ice cream for me and Paris, but they all ate fruit for dessert. There were a lot of different choices of fruit, too. It probably would have been the healthier choice, but I decided to eat ice cream since it seemed like they bought it especially for us.

Tomorrow class starts at 10:30. Professor Erickson showed us the place where we'll be having class, and it is so cool! It's the same place where the institute is, where the missionaries live (or at least spend a lot of time...), and where the Paris ward meets for church. The building was built in 1624 or something like that. It's beautiful! In the institute part of the building, the ceilings and rafters are painted with cool designs, and there's a big staircase leading up to it.

Anyway, I'm about ready to hit the hay. I'm still so tired! lol. It's supposed to be colder tomorrow, but luckily it's not snowing. :) Our host family kept laughing about the fact that it snowed in Utah this week. lol. :) They kept saying, "At least it won't snow this weekend!"

A demain!