Les chateaux de la Loire and stuff

Thursday morning we went off to Tours, about 2.5 hours from here, arrived at the hotel and had dinner and awkward ice breakers (not too awkward, 'get to know you bingo'. Friday and Saturday we spent all day visiting 2 chateaux each day that rest in the Loire valley. Some of them quite cool, await pictures once my inet situation is figured out.Sometimes I wish we were cool enough to have buildings around for 600 years or more, but we aren't that cool. The castles were nice but it was FREEZING and them being castles and all, lack central heating, which became quite a problem when no one paid attention since we were all shivering. Apparently it's the first time it has snowed there in over 25 years, crazy talk. The food that we ate at the restaurants was very good, these french and their 3 course meals at all but breakfast, I don't understand how they don't weigh 300lbs. The best dessert so far was a chocolate mini cake with raspberry sorbet--mhm.

We spent the nights in the hotel where I roomed with Michelle (the only other person from brown) and mostly we just hung out in someone's room getting to know people, the first night my room had no heat and it was freezing so we changed to one with a loft!

Weve since returned to Nantes and had our first day of orientation which included 4 hours of rules a 1 hour city tour and thats about it. Tres fun. Oh also we got our orientation groups today; somehow I placed into the middle level? Certainly a fluke. Well, not much else to raconte.

I hope all of you abroad or getting ready to have an awesome time! Keep me posted