Finally

OK, so it's been a little while, and I don't have that much time, so this post will be a brief (or not so brief, depending on perspective) overview of the past three days.

6/18

So our first day in Lyon; we started off by having to take public transportation to the school. Since it's a private school, everyone lives all around the city, so it was just me and Paul on our bus and metro to the school in downtown Lyon (of course there were tons of other people there who I didn't know). Then we left our French companions behind and just the Americans went to a middle school to talk with French kids. They thought we were aliens or something - it was quite amusing. Then we ate our packed lunches (everyone's was absolutely huge - I guess stereotypical Americans eat a lot?), and met up with the French kids for a cruise on Lyon's two rivers. Later that night Paul and a friend took me on a walk around their Lyon suburb Ecully.

6/19
The second day we were accompanied by the French as we traveled to Perouges, a stone city dating to the middle ages and to le haneau du vin, a wine museum. Perouges is kind of hard to explain - I'll put some photos up. We ate lunch at Perouges (everyone's lunch was smaller because we all had to tell our hosts that we really don't eat that much!). Then it was off to the wine museum where us kids were not allowed to even touch the wine, let alone taste it or buy it. When the teachers were tasting wine, we were served grape juice. But we got to see the vinyard - kind of cool. Later that night a bunch of French and Americans got together to celebrate two of the French's birthdays. To say the least, parties are the same across the Atlantic.

6/20
Yesterday was a trip to Geneva, but none of the French students came with us. Honestly, we all loved it there. It was so pretty. We had a walking tour in the morning (when we went past all of the international organizations I kept looking for IBO central, but I couldn't find it). Then we ate lunch on the banks of the lake. I was a little worried about my tuna sandwich (I haven't liked tuna back home), but it was really good! Then in the afternoon we toured the UN @ Geneva, which was really cool. We got into three conference rooms, one of which you see on TV and in the news all the time, and two of them actually had the placards set up for all of the countries! Then we went back to Lyon, and when I got bqck to my house, I was surprised with tons of people there. My host family was hosting ab art exhibition, so I got to meet a lot of people and see some great artwork.

So that's it. Today has been pretty laid back, mainly because there is a huge music festival here tonight. I promise that I will be better with my updates!