Yesterday we visited SKEMA (our school). I was amazed at how pretty Sophia Antipolis is. It is an industrial park, but you would never know just by looking at it. They have some mandatory regulations on how much vegatation they have to have per sq km of building space, so it practically looks like a forest. The most buildings you could see at a time were one or two. Later, me and my roommate went shopping at Monoprix (a convenience type store with clothes, beauty products, food, etc) in hope for something to eat. We ended up walking away with basically nothing (I only bought a bag of cashews) as everything looked either gross or really expensive (not everything is expensive, but their variety was not very good). We held out in hopes of finding somewhere better today. So for dinner, I ate half a small bag of cashews.
The "stereotype" we have that all the French eat is pastries, bread, etc. is not really a stereotype. I can tell by the end of this, I will never want anything with carbs again. Francoise gives us amazing food, such as homemade bread, pastries with raisins in it, and today she made a chocolate brownie type thing. They are soooo good.
Last night was my first experience at a bar. It was an Irish pub called The Hops Store. It is awesome, very loud and expensive, but still amazing. It wasn't dirty like I had been expecting and I will for sure go back.
Today we went on a tour of Antibes. We saw a lot of cool things, but it still hard to remember exactly how to get to places. I am very excited to go shopping as there are a lot of really cool stores.
I also went out to eat for the first time today at a pizzaria. The pizzas they have here are not even close to the normal ones back home. For example, I had a pizza with pepperoni and egg. It was really good.
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