Grenobloise

Sorry for the delay my avid readers, lifes been crazy busy! I've started school, been settling into my dorm, going out on the weekends and getting coffee with friends practically everyday. Unfortunately I can't write that much today because I have some homework to accomplish.

I love Grenoble, this city is so beautiful. Every street you walk down at the end it opens into a cobble stoned courtyard full of restaurants and cafés all complete with breathtaking views of the french alps. School's going pretty well, I was placed into an advanced section and I'm struggling a bit but I think it is better to be challenged. I love my teacher her name is Béatrice and she's a nut, she claims she eats 3 pain au chocolat (the most amazing french pastry) a day, yet she's still a size double 0. All the women here are SO skinny and so fashionable, I strive to be like them everyday.

Occassionally someone will come up and ask me for directions thinking I'm a native of Grenoble, often it's americans who do it too and I'm very flattered. I think the fact that I wear so much black is the main reason why people think I'm french.

My friends and I have been trying to stay active because all we do is eat SO much bread. Our favorite bakery is so perfectly named "pour l'amour du pain" literally for the love of bread in english. Couldn't be any more perfect right? We've done a couple of hikes to burn off all the carbs and discovered some of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen. Just the other day we started off on a hike in the woods and about 30 minutes in the woods opened up into rolling hills in the french countryside with the mountains as their backdrop. Around the bend we stumbled across a castle! Is this real life? I feel like I'm living in a fantasy world, I half expected the Vontraps to come running out of the castle singing.

I'll write again soon I promise! We're trying to plan a trip to Geneva, Switzerland this week and my mom comes in about a month and we're going to traverse France together!