<font color="purple">...and was secretly hoping to meet ledgewood somehow

In any case, it was really fun.
We did ALOT of activities, so I was still sore, even a few days after we came back!
I'll post some pics after I get a hold of my friend's memory card for her digital camera- I only took a few pictures before my camera battery died....

It was pretty scary though sometimes, I took Spanish instead of French (it was a trip for both language classes) and thus 99.9999% of the time, I couldn't really talk to anybody, or read any of the signs, or well...anything, sadly, my attempts at speaking french sounded more like broken English hen anything else. Whoever said that french is like Spanish or english is full of bologna (Oscar Mayers to be exact)

The whole point of the trip though was to expirience the culture of another country. Personaly, I wasn't really culture shocked. The area where I live was settled by the frech anyways and was later taken by the english (unlike most of new york, which was settled by the dutch first before being taken by the english) the only diferences that I found were:

1. The language
2. People seem to be more openly affectionate (I remember my friends and I were pretty awestruck when we saw a gay couple walking down the streets...holding hands. That is something that you would probably never see here)
3. Most people actualy LIKE winter. (I would too if we actualy had something to do around here)
4. There are alot more "adult" shops
5. The tour guide actualy wanted to take a girl to the hospital because she had a fever and was a little sick. (here- you either suck it up/ take a tylenol or something) but...maybe that wasn't so much culture as it was trying to involve some kind of trouble with the parents </font>