Rainy Friday

My class today is canceled because the professor went away for the weekend, and outside it's grey and raining, which seems like the perfect opportunity for a blog update.

This week I've really started to study—seriously! On Tuesday I have to give a presentation on nuclear power in France and on Wednesday I need to hand in an outline of my final paper on Jules Ferry. On June 3 my history of religion paper is due (10 pages on the Catholic League...), and five days later I'll turn in six pages on journalism in France. The Jules Ferry paper's due June 10, and on June 18 I'm finally done after a test in the history of the French language. Honestly, it won't be that bad.

Tomorrow we're going to Cannes for the famous film festival. As Cannes is far from Aix, we at 8 a.m. which means I may have to set my alarm as early as 7. However, we are seeing two film screenings and hopefully getting to climb the red carpet steps. The films are Three Blind Mice directed by Matthew Newton and Vladimir Perisic's Ordinary People. And other than that, I know nothing about the films.

The latest news on the Fac is that university unions are still unhappy; they demonstrated in Paris the other day, although Sarkozy remains firm and says he won't change his mind.

Finally, two people know from the Michigan have also started travel-around-Europe blogs: Molly, who's hoping to visit ten different countries, and Patrick, who's doing something-or-other in Ireland.