I've started listening to French radio when I get the chance - which is pretty often, since the walk to class is about 20 minutes, as is the bus ride to the Polytech. Amusingly, as I mentioned before, about 50% of the songs on the radio are in English, but when those come on, I just change the station. (Yes, there is no escape from "Hey there Delilah" or James Blunt...)

This morning, I took the bus to the Polytech to see if they could find something for me to do before my classes start. (And I also learned that if you forget to push the magical I-want-to-get-off button before your stop, the bus will not stop) In any case, it looks like I will be working on a little project before the engineering classes start. It has to do with solar panels, and since I've never done anything like that before, I'm going to have to do some research...

I had lunch with some French students (engineers) in the cafeteria, which reminded me very much of the Caf at Bucknell... at last something familiar!

This weekend, I visited le Musée des Beaux Arts, the fine art museum of Tours. I've figured out how to make panoramas (you need quicktime to see it, click+drag to look around), so here's the cool garden outside of the museum:


The museum had, well, lots of art... Here's a painting of what Loches (the château we saw) used to look like. You can even see Agès Sorel and Jeanne d'Arc in there:



Looking out the museum window, I saw a group of jugglers in the street. They were, of course, way more interesting than the art inside... what can I say? we had been there for a little while. I'll put up more pictures at some point.