And France Wins...

So I've officially been in Strasbourg for 4 weeks! Time passes so slowly, yet fast at the same time. It seems like it's been forever since I got on the plane in Vancouver, but at the same time I can't believe it's already almost mid-October.
This last week has been a rugby frenzy...there was a huge game between France (les Bleus) and New Zealand (the All Blacks). One of the friends I've met here is from New Zealand and so obviously we were cheering for New Zealand! We watched it again in the little Irish Pub downtown and one of the bartenders is from New Zealand as well so he got us really good seats! It was kind of scary though to be sitting in the front of the Pub and to look behind you with a mob of Frenchman yelling furiously! (but it was fun...no real threat, don't worry mom!). So as you can tell by the title of this post...France won. You'd think since I was in France and studying French that I'd be cheering for France, but nope...I've now moved on to cheering for either Argentina or South Africa. Not sure which I want to win now. All I know is just not the French!
At the end of October we have a one week "study" break. And as you know how those go...there will not be much studying happening! Chelsea (NZ), Taryn (Australia) and I will be traveling around southern and western France! We plan to go to Nice and Monaco in the south/east then maybe to Avignon, La Rochelle, Carnac, Caen and then to Paris and back to Strasbourg. It should be fun!
I still need to post pictures of everyone...I'll get on that sometime :) For now it's off to do some homework!