It's going to be hard to think of a name for every entry...

Yesterday was tourist day! We did a tour on les bateaux mouches, which are long tour boats with windows all around. My host mom said they open the top in the summer, but it's too cold right now. Downtown Strasbourg is surrounded by the River Ill so the boats take you all around. We went from La Petite France (which I learned was named after a venereal disease...) all the way around to the counsel of Europe and the European Parliament.
Afterwards we walked through the mall rivetoile and then went to see a movie, Largo Winch. It's a sort of James Bond action movie. I was kind of worried because I didn't understand what was going on for a while, then I realized I probably wouldn't have understood the movie in English either, it's just one of those kinds of movies... But I learned that you can by a membership at the cinema for 20€ a month and see unlimited movies, so I'll probably do that and go on Sundays since nothing else is open on Sundays.
I was pretty tired once I finally got home so I had dinner with my host mom, read and watched a little TV and then fell asleep.

Today was another free day. The group from L&C going to Nancy arrived at the train station and had about 3 hours before their train left so I met up with them at a café and showed them around downtown a bit. We went inside the cathedral which was huge and beautiful! I want to go see the astronomical clock they have inside sometime. Then we walked back and I helped them get their bags on the train and take off. It was really nice to see some friends in that group and I'm excited to go on excursions with them this semester.
I walked home along the river. The streets are up high and I usually walk along the river on the street level and look down but I decided to take a stairway down and walk by the water. It was really nice, though a bit colder. They have benches in the grass along the water; when it warms up I'll go have a sandwich and read a book sometime. The swans swam up to me hoping for some food but I had nothing. Then I noticed this weird growling sound they were making... I had no idea swans sounded so scary!
I'm tired again tonight so not much more to say. My host mom is out at dinner so I'm feeding myself. Tomorrow we get our test results and choose our classes!
Well, off to see what's in the fridge, maybe I'll just eat cheese. Delicieux!