Quiz went okay, a lot of true false, which is the bane of my academic existence. The new campus we're studying at is called ENSMA and it's really cool. It has a lot of futuristic architecture and is situated next to an amusement park which we will be visiting on Friday.
We studied detonics in the afternoon and then rode back in a bus to our hotel. My room at the hotel has a cool view of the town square:
Apparently since today is the summer solstice, it means everyone in France who can play an instrument hops out on the streets and goes for it. We saw digeridoos, accordians, rock bands, trumpets and trombones, and some African style drums. It was really entertaining. In the evening we went out into the square next to our hotel and there was a big dance concert with a DJ. All of the American students worked their way to the front and we fist pumped and jumped around for about an hour straight. I was too exhausted after this to move on to the next dance party, but they were going all night based on the music that woke me up at 2 in the morning. I've decided the US needs to start a reciprocal Summer Solstice Celebration (SSC).
I should mention that my hotel has free room service and really good hot chocolate. Totally awesome. I feel like half of the things I talk about in this blog are food but whatever. I mean seriously, who doesn't love Nutella croissants delivered to their door in the morning?
Tuesday June 22
The sun stays up forever here. It sets after 10 and rises before 6, I know we're having the longest days of the year right now, but this is crazy. Today we had another combustion class at ENSMA. Next to the labs, this was my one of the better classes we've had. It was really interesting learning about flame structure, fuel ratios, etc. for airplane propulsion. We'll be visiting their labs on Thursday which I'm really pumped for. Went on a tour of Poitiers in the afternoon and then walked to a Chinese buffet.
Some pictures from the tour...
We got to the Chinese buffet before it opened, so we walked around a park nearby for half an hour and saw some cool birds and a lot of rectangular trees.
COOL BIRDS
RECTANGULAR TREES
The Chinese buffet was absolutely amazing. I literally did not put anything on my plate that wasn't tasty. If I tried to list everything I ate, it would take a while, so let's just say I lived up to the American tradition of eating until it hurts. I was gonna call it an early night, but I wound up watching the Argentina Greece and South Korea Nigeria games. I seem to have a World Cup bug, but I doubt I'll follow soccer after it's over. It's extremely fascinating to me that countries with such large socio-economic disparity can come together on a soccer field and have competitive matches. This trip has done a lot to broaden my world view.
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