There really is nothing quite like waking up in the morning and heading down to centre ville to have coffee and pastries at a street side cafe! It truly is like they say over here about the pace of life and the emphasis on enjoying things like (photo: crepes for dinner!) meals. For as unchristian as this country is, there is a huge emphasis on family time and surprisingly enough, more things are closed here on Sundays than are in the States. This is one of the observations I had the other day when talking to Mrs. Reuber about cultural differences. I also had the opportunity on Saturday night to go down to centre ville with Adam and Tim and seven of the female students from ONIRIS. We had coffee and then ended off the evening at a creperie! It was a great evening of learning some of the different things between the cultures. In other news, I am still very stiff and sore from lots of soccer, basketball and believe it or not rowing! We went out on the Edre river with the ONIRIS students and took a huge "dragon boat" basically a long canoe paddled by 21 people! Then some of us switched off into the other canoes so that others could have a turn. It was lots of fun but very tiring!
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