Hello People!
Yesterday was a really cold day for our first visit to downtown Metz. We took a bus tour of the city and saw alot of the sights and buildings, but it was muggy and raining so I didn't take any pictures. Not only did it rain, but it hailed and was sunny again all in about an hour, so needless to say I was freaking cold as hell. Also dad, that umbrella you gave me was either broken already or one of the metal things broke on the flight over.
I had my first experience ordering coffee and now I'm very glad I am taking a French class here because otherwise I would never be able to feed myself! Also, the food portions here are much smaller than America so I have been perpetually hungry for the past several days.
While it is difficult to get a decent meal, it is very easy to find beer around town. While we were in downtown Metz, I went to a bar literally called 'IRISH PUB' where they had a happy hour and I managed to have my first 2 pints of Guinness in Europe but then when it ended we moved to another bar up the street where Kris, Cori, Alex, and I sat for a couple hours watching a looped Red Bull extreme sports video while trying new beers including Buffinger and Floreffe.
Today was my first day of classes and I quickly figured out that I have a very hectic schedule... I have four classes back to back to back to back from 11:15 to 3:15 so I don't have a good chance to get lunch during a normal class day which only adds to my constant hunger. (I'm probably going to lose a decent amount of weight because of this)
This entire week our group has been trying to figure out where to go this weekend since our first plan of wine tasting didn't work out and our second plan to go to the beach at Nice, France looks like it might be too far away for a two day weekend trip since the earliest train we can catch would take almost 12 hours to get there. Needless to say we are absolutely typical clueless Americans on this trip right now and it could take us awhile to get used to things over here... Oh well we will figure it out somehow.
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-Brian
