Last Few Chapters

Last Monday, I visited Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne which was beautiful but they were doing some restoration work on the North tower as you can see in the following picture.

Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne

It was beautiful inside, just like most gothic cathedrals, and there was a crypt, but it looked like you had to pay to go in, so I didn't go down there because it is a little creepy to me and I didn't want to pay for it.

Inside Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne

Then this weekend we went up to Lille for Augustana football game against the French national team! It rained in the morning, but by the time the game started at 4pm, it had cleared up and was hot and sunny. Surprisingly I had a great time cheering for our time even though when we would start the french around us would completely overpower us with their cheering. 

For the game we got VIP passes to get free drinks and have a free dinner with the team after the game.

Augustana football team and a random man supporting America.

We won the game 20-14! It was very exciting, and it was not as long as a football game usually is in the US, which was nice.

 On Sunday, we walked around Lille just to see more of the town, which is very different from Dijon and bigger than Dijon as well. I think I like Dijon better than Lille though.

A square we had lunch it; the French seem to like their large pots.

We went into a book "market", and there were a lot of old books and pictures and records and toys. It was also in a beautiful, old building.

There is a canal in Lille.

We went to the zoo since we had time and it was in the park.

Someone carved a whole little village on this fallen tree.

A beautiful building in Lille

Lille was a nice, relaxing weekend because everyone was tired so we didn't want to go crazy on trying to see all of the sights. Instead we just hung out and played a French card game and enjoyed our weekend.

This week is different because there are new students here, so on Monday we didn't have class because the new students were taking the placement test. We slept in on Monday, and then just hung out with some friends at the residence hall, and then saw the movie Joséphine, which is a romantic comedy: it was cute. Today I had class again with new professors and they moved everyone up a level, so now I am in level 6 which at first sounded scary, but it really is not that different and it is only for a week and two days now, and there is only one more test to take, so I think I can do fine for a short time in level 6.   I can't believe that I am almost done here! Time is going by so quickly and there is still so much that I want to do and see! I am just going to enjoy the time I have left here and make the best of each day.