Aix et Digne

So now I'm about a week into school, but my second day happened to be my birthday! Unfortunately, I took the wrong bus to school, instead of going 15 minutes north to Sisteron, I went 20 minutes south to Digne-les-Bains. When we arrived, I asked the bus driver if this was Paul Arène, my school, and he laughed at me and said "Monsieur, tu n'as pas de la chance!", in other words, my luck was awful. But it was all so bad, because the bus driver had to drive himself and a few others to Sisteron for some reason so I got to go with them, and because I'm an exchange student, the teacher didn't mind that I was 50 minutes late! The classes here aren't too hard, I love math, the only classes that are truly impossible right now are french and Spanish, because I know absolutely no Spanish and the other kids have been in the class for 3-4 years, and the teacher teaches in franglish...so I will have to on that one, but no worries! Everyone has been very nice, and laughs at my bad jokes! I have people to hang out with at lunch, as well as people in my class to talk to in between classes. And for the rest of my birthday, I had a great  party with presents and cake, I got french perfume, clothes and a journal.
        Friday was great. After school, I got to go to Aix-en-Provence which is about 20 miles north of Marseille and it was very beautiful! Everything is ancient and everyone is stylish, the cathedrals are amazing! Everything's also very spendy, but I bought a bit of clothing, I'm slowly getting dans la mode. On Saturday I saw fossils which were very nice, and Sunday there was this giant event near Marseille! It was the 20th anniversary of a helicopter company called Eurocopter, and there were thousands of people there, it was cool to watch helicopters fly, and hang out with not just my current host families, but members of other ones.
       By the way; there is this awesome sport here called le planneur, and I got to watch someone do it! It involves a person flying a small light plane, with only using the war, air pockets in the sky. It sounds so awesome!

      School is a lot more like college, and I'm really enjoying it. Rotary meeting tonight where I'm going to give my presentation, and Rotary meeting with the exchange students this weekend. Hope everyone is doing great! -Clay