Deux mots... Touristes Américains.

Two words... American tourists. That, in a nutshell, describes my group. It's not so bad, since we all speak French and most of us dress appropriately, but when we all gather, pass the digital cameras to one person and pose for a photo, we become the biggest tools ever - a collective launchpad, if you will.
So, today we had class, très facile. Après la classe, we went to Un Centre Commercial (read: shopping mall). This Centre Commercial has Un Géant in it. Le Géant is like Super Wal-Mart, except French. Libby and I are going to go back sometime and take des photos. Well, les français supposedly don't eat as much as we fat Américains do, but their huge store sure has a lot more food than ours do. For those of you in Wisconsin who might think the cheese aisles in Copp's, Woodman's or Sentry are excessive, let me tell you, you haven't seen anything yet. There were 2 cheese aisles with every kind of cheese you knew existed, and some you didn't. Oh, the French. On to the meat section... Anyone know what Le Cheval is? Allow me to translate: The Horse. It's true, they eat horses. I think I'll tell Lynda I don't want to try it.... ever. The rest of the store was pretty similar to a Meijer or Super Wal-Mart, with the exception of the excess of overly fatty sausages at the deli. Anything you can get in the States, you can also get in Grenoble, but I'm not so sure everything you can get in Grenoble, you can get in the States. Has anyone checked your local butcher's cooler for horse meat lately?
Even though today wasn't as eventful as yesterday, I took a few pictures. They should be up on Community Webshots by tomorrow - I'm at the Café Internet aujourd'hui, so I have to wait until I can use Libby's computer again to post the photos. The one picture I really want you all to see is impossible to capture in a camera, no matter how high the resolution. Picture this: Some lush green foothills of the Alps with georgous European homes strategically placed on the mountainside. In the background, reaching far above the highest tops of the green foothills are huge, still snow-capped mountains, almost blocking the entire sky. It's so beautiful, I hope at least one of the pictures I take in the next six weeks will do the scenery justice. I wish you all were here to share this experience with me - but since you're not, make sure you keep updated with my handy blog :) C'est tout pour maintenant. A demain!