alors tout va bien

It took two weeks, but the Bank of America/Visa team finally got their act together and sent me a debit card. Now I just have to go around paying everyone back.

Lots of class and tests lately; I had my math midterm on a Saturday (!) morning. Spent a lot of time in libraries and with secretariats discussing my enrollment in classes, and on the phone with BofA of course.

Last weekend my program went to Normandy. Five hour bus ride up to Mont St Michel (we can pretend from here on out that I'm taking all photos, including the inexplicable aerial shots) and a great two hour tour of this fantastic giant monastery and town on a rock with the highest tides of Europe with our amazing French tour guide. It's by the way the only part of Normany which was never under English hands. A fantastic hostel in Granville, then the next day the Dday beaches (x3 and so damn sobering), museum, American cemetary (the most hallowed ground I've ever felt), the oldest tapestry in ever (depicts William the Conquerer against Harold), and four kinds of precipitation in one day- snow, hail, rain, slush/sleet.

When my mom comes maybe I'll ask her to give me an early birthday present/loan of a camera. It's still beautiful in Paris by the way. Also, for those of you who may read this and don't know, I'm going to Budapest next semester for studies in math. So a whole year away from Yale, bittersweet, but excited. =D