Allons-y!

Since my last post, plenty of fun stuff has happened. We saw Elton John perform from afar on Saturday. We were on a hill and could hear him well and see him on the screen. Yesterday, however, was much more entertaining. We met at noon and went to La Universite Laval and walked through the campus. It's nice and quaint, although not nearly as pretty as Mississippi State. It's a very prestigious school, though, so they're mainly focused on academics instead of aesthetics.

We then went to a mall near the university. It's amazing and really huge. I ate Thai food in the food court, bought a hat, a shirt and toiletries, and then walked around until 4:30, when we left. (There's also a grocery store inside of the mall! How neat is that?)

Max, Tracy, Allie, Candace and I went mad early to the Festival d'Ete. We got very close to the front. We saw Cage the Elephant, Girl Talk and The Black Keys. Put simply, TOTALLY AMAZING. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I had my doubts about Girl Talk because it's just one dude on his computer, but it was amazing. My dancing skills are about as awful as one's can be, but I sure as heck danced my butt off last night. It was raining on and off, but that was totally okay. It felt so great outside when it was raining. We met a group of four people - three guys and a girl. They're from Montreal and were really nice. We hung out with them for the entirety of the three shows. The girl, Raphaelle, was very eager to help me with my French. The others in my group left to go to the bathroom after Girl Talk, so I was left with our new friends. During then, I met the people standing behind us. They also were very nice. One guy said he loved the States and visited often. It was nice hearing someone outside of America have nice things to say about the United States, for sure. When The Black Keys were playing, the three guys we met (Yan, Matt and Sebastien) lifted me up randomly and threw me into the crowd. Yeah, I crowd surfed. It happened twice. It wasn't for long each time but it was quite an interesting experience. The last time, I kinda fell and landed upside down on my shoulders. Hurt a little bit, and I landed in a pool of dirty water, but that's okay. I rocked it.

After the festival, we walked to Chez McDo (McDonalds) and ate there. I felt much more comfortable talking to the cashier this time, but there were still some language barriers. After we ate, we hung out outside for a bit and then went back to the hotel.

Today has been a relax day. We had out first day of classes, which was nothing amazing. No ground-breaking discoveries in the French language were made today, let's put it that way. After class got out, I worked on my homework a bit and then went to a nice cafe called Paris Croissant for lunch. After that, I came back and finished my homework, skyped with my friend Shaw for a bit and now here I am. It's currently raining a little bit, but I bet it'll relax later today.

I still need to upload pictures to my computer, so I'll either do that or take a nap or read...or something.