Le Mont-Saint-Michel

Salut!

I am currently sitting my dorm room having just returned from le Mont-Saint-Michel. If you don't already know what it is here is a lengthy, Wiki-description of it so I don't have to type it all out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint-Michel

We drove an hour from the university to get there only to find out they still had to get the tickets. It was such a let down to drive all the way there only to sit outside and stare at it for another 45 minutes. But after our lunch and encounters with some giant mutant seagulls, we finally received our tickets to go to the Abbey. Like everything in Europe, to get there, we had to go up a ridiculous amount of stairs. I will have quads of steel by the end of this year. After the sweaty and long trek, we finally made it to the top. The views were definately worth it.

When we went into the abbey, there was a prayer service happening. About 5 nuns in their cool outfits and Birkenstocks were praying on the floor of this majestic, yet very simple church. It was kind of neat to see after visiting all the big and grand churches in Rennes. We walked around the abbey for another 30 minutes until we all became extremely hungry and tired.

I bought an extremely overpriced, yet delicious, chocolat crepe. One thing France does not do like Canada is customer service. The customer is not always right. A lot of people have been extremely friendly, but I've found people aren't has keen to make sure you get exactly what you want. I am beginning to adjust to the culture, but sometimes I miss friendly, Canadian servers.

Now I am just hanging out, trying to make sure all my classes are in order for Monday. It looks like I will only have classes Monday-Thursday! This is so very exciting. I should be off now. I'm so pumped to finally be starting school and begin my next challenge here.

A bientôt,

Skye