Today we got up around 7 to get our luggage down. After breakfast we got on the coach for a day of traveling. I had trouble sleeping so I just looked at the Dutch, Belgian, and French countryside. France certainly is a beautiful country, even if the people do smell. There were farms everywhere with small towns dotting the landscape. That is one thing I do enjoy over here, seeing just vast amounts of land with towns taking up tiny portions of the land; and in each town, the tallest building is a church. So, despite the lack of religion here in France, there are hundreds of old churches in each town, and they are always the tallest building in the towns. When we finally got to Paris, it hit me just how large this city is. It is huge and expansive! We saw the Eiffel Tower from far off right before we left the ring for our hotel. While we are somewhat outside of the center of city, there is a metro stop right on our block. We ate dinner at the hotel, which is huge I might add. There are nine floors with a good 95 rooms to each floor. I am surprised at the size of the hotel given its location in Paris. The rooms themselves are tiny, barely able to fit two people, but I can’t complain. This will keep me out in the city. We have one full free day on Saturday, and all of our evenings our free. Speaking of evenings, after dinner, we got a bus tour of the city with Ronny our coach driver who does not like the “Froggies” (his nickname for the French) They surprised us with a cruise down the river, unfortunately it had been overcast and rainy all day and the rain really picked up towards the end of the cruise. We did get to see a lot of Paris from the river – the Lourve, Notre Dame, and the Eiffel Tower, to name just a few. Tomorrow we get a walking tour around town – lets hope it is sunny! I was really exhausted so when we got back around 11:30 I just collapsed in bed. Tomorrow we have our last class and then the walking tour!
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