Les premiers jours

I'm gonna have to keep this one a bit short, because I'm typing on a computer at the Institut de Touraine, where we have begun to take our classes, and the keyboard is in French, so every time I want to type an "a," I end up with a "q," so it's a bit painful.

We traveled to a goat farm yesterday and got to see lots of cute baby goats all over the place-soooo much fun playing with them. But of course, we also learned how they make goat milk and cheese, and had some with a bit of wine-c'était très bien! We then had a little lunch of excellent crèpes in the quaint little town of Chinon, home of Rabelais. We ended the day at the castle/dungeon of Loches-lots of pictures were taken, and I'll try and put them up soon!

I also met my family last night too-they are all sooooo nice and helpful. The first thing I did once I met the kids when they came home from school was play the guitar with Jean-Baptiste, who plays the bass. We had dinner then with one of their aunts and two cousins-9 persons at the table was a lot! I listened a lot, and its a bit difficult talking sometimes with the kids, since they speak a bit fast, but its been ok so far. More on them to come!

A quick funny story about some vocab I learned today. Apparently, I made un petit erreur when I wrote the email to introduce myself to my hostfamily a few weeks ago. I told them that I was very excited to stay with them: "je suis très excité de rester chez vous." But, as I've been told by my friends here that the right word is actually impassioné; excité, which we looked up in the dictionary, actually means horny-oops. But my host mom has been extrmely nice to me-haha, just kidding. This seems to have happened to me a few times in the past year, but I don't know why...;)

Peace