First week of classes went by smoothly. Dijon decided to shower us with snow too! Dijon sur la neige is very pretty.
We had a class at what France calls SciencePo, which I would love to explain to you but I dont really know what it is besides an extra class I have to go to because UPS decided since most people are International Relations/Business it would be fun. I'm not saying its not going to be interesting, the French elections are this year and so that is what the focus is, but having a 2 hour class Friday afternoons when I would otherwise be libre (free) from class is a bummer.
Luckily the snow was all melted by Saturday and we had a sunny excursion to Beaune. We left at 9: 30 in the morning (more like 10 as some people decided it would be cool to be late...) and went straight to the caves for our tuition-paid-wine-tasting-in-the-lovely-capital-of-Burgundy. (Jealous yet?) (and yes... it was 11 in the morning). We walked though dark caves learning about wine making while sampling 2 whites and 6 reds from around the area. We got to keep our silver wine tasting device (not a glass, but a metal big spoon like thing so that you can see the color of the wine even in the dark caves... or something) as a souvenir. We then headed to lovely lunch where I had delicious risotto and chocolate goodness for dessert. After our bellies were full we went to the old hospital which was amazing. We had a guided tour and saw the old rooms, medical devices, medical remedies, and the renowned tritich by Van der Weyden which was breathtaking. Our tour of Beaune ended there and we headed back to Dijon.
The rest of the weekend was relaxing, its highlight being Erin and I buying our spring break tickets!
Unfortunately I have another first week of school this week as I have switched into the upper level. Shouldn't be too much harder I hope- although it does require going to two more electives. (if you recall I went to economy last week)
This week was Theatre and Art History. Theater was a pretty boring experience as it required a lot of introduction and talk of the republiques in France and really nothing to do with Theater but to set the scene (haha get it?)
Art History today was an experience. We will be studying 20th century artists. Not french. Just any. Today was Kadinsky. This kind of disappoints me because I was looking forward to an in depth study of the real French masterpieces... and instead will be talking about Kadinsky, Pollock, Dali (Russian, American, Spanish....)
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