First Week of Classes!

Oh hey!

So, this week marked the commencement of the "study" part of the study abroad experience. As IES students, we are offered classes to take at the IES center, which are taught by French professors. We are required to take a French language course, and the rest of the classes can either be IES courses or courses offered at the University of Nantes. Most people take one or two university courses. It's cool because we get to go to any random class at the university that we find interesting and then choose later which classes we want to officially sign up for! Right now, I am for sure taking: (in addition to the required IES French language course) art history, religion and the state in modern France, French Romanticism in literature, and then the last class is still sort of up in the air. I am torn between taking a course called Philosophy of Language at the university and taking a theatre class (it's basically theatre practice that leads to a theatre performance at the end of the semester). I want to take a class at the university to meet some French university students, but I usually regret not taking opportunities to act. Sooo, that's the situation. Please email me or something with you opinions or suggestions! You all know how indecisive I am. Haha.
Anyways, things have been going really well! I am becoming much more acclimated here and am pretty good at getting around the city of Nantes! There is always something going on here and I love the IES group of students; everyone is so great! And my host family is still wonderful and I think we are starting to get more comfortable around each other. Which is great!
Oh, and there is this bakery that I pass everyday on my walk to the IES center, soooo I sort of feel obligated to buy a ficelle (like a small baguette) for my lunch everyday. It's still warm when I buy it! The bread here is soooo good! And I think I have eaten my own weight in madeleines coquilles, which are basically in between cookies and cake (I'm sure you've seen madeleines before). And you can buy them in bags and they are awesome and I could sit there and eat them all day and be very content. I walk sooo much here that I think I am allowed to have as many cookies as I want. :)
Alright, well, that's all that I can think of to say for now. Au revoir!

Jordan