Yesterday there wasn't school because it was Ascension, so we went over to Camme. Apparently every year in Camme they have a big film festival and celebrities come from all other the world. It was definitely set up for having all sorts of celebrities, but I didn't see any personally (I wasn't really looking though).
Truthfully there wasn't much to do in Camme, unless you were going to see one of the films. We went to an anthropology museum which had a lot of things from Ancient Iran. Truthfully I wasn't too impressed with it. I feel like they needed to post more about each artifact, and to make it into a story rather than a showcase for a bunch of random objects.
After we got back to Nice my stomach was hurting really bad. I couldn't eat much for dinner. I told my host family about it and my host mom gave we two pills. I think she said one was for calming my stomach and the other to give me diarrhea. I tried to explain that I didn't think I needed diarrhea, but somehow we couldn't quite communicate what we wanted to to each other. I was so confused as to what it would do, but I took it anyway.
I went to bed right after dinner wondering if diarrhea was suddenly going to hit. I fell asleep, and slept pretty much the whole night diarrhea free. I don't know if I just misunderstood my host mom, or if I just got lucky. Anyway I felt betting in the morning, but that's why I didn't blog yesterday.
Today's been kind of a relaxing day. After school all of the girls, including the teacher from UVU left for Rome. My roommate decided to go to another city in France for the weekend, so I ended up the only one from UVU staying in Nice. When I first found out about it I was a little put off, but now I kind feel like I can relax. It's been kind of nice being away from everyone and having some time for myself. I don't know how I'll feel by Sunday though.
After school I went to Lunch with some students from my class. It was nice doing something with different people. We talked a lot about how things were in our countries. I was surprised to find that Spain is in a really back recession, and that Southern Spain has a 30% unemployment rate! I don't feel like the United States got that bad when it went under.
Also I learned today that French citizens didn't have the right to vote until the 1940s! We learned about that in class, and after everyone was talking about when there countries got the right to vote, all of which were around the same time. My country's citizens had the right to vote since 1776 but I didn't say anything. Being here has definitely caused me to see how great of a country the United States is.
Afterward lunch I was going to go swimming in the ocean, but it's been really windy and the waves were huge, so I decided not too.
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