Day 10: I miss TOUR

I guess this blog post will be for today and yesterday since I forgot to post yesterday (oops!). Yesterday I had my meeting with my academic adviser. She told me that I was the first person out of everyone to sign up at IES for my classes (for which I was very proud) so I won't have any difficulty getting into them. She also recommended that I take a class at the Catholic Institute of Paris, so I am. Apparently however since religion is so taboo here, the only people who take religious studies classes are old people, so she said not to be shocked if everything in my class is of an older generation. Anyways, I spent today trying to decifer the nonsense that is the class postings at the Catholic Institute, and I think I have finally figured it out but I definatly appreciate and miss TOUR (Tulane's registrar system) a lot. Of course there are no classes that work well both time wise and subject wise so we will see what happens....I guess I need to talk to my advisor again. Right now it looks like I will either be taking Fundementals of Buddhism, The Keys to Christianity, or Introduction to Judaism. Anyways, today I went to L'Eglise Saint-Etienne-du-Mont which is a gorgous church dedicated to the Martyr Stephen (who is incedently one of my favorite New Testament persons), it had some stunning hand painted glass windows and also is home to the tomb of Sainte Genevieve (the patron saint of Paris). I took the bus home from L'Eglise Saint-Etienne which I like much better than the metro. I hate going underground to take the metro, and since my communte is about 30-40 mins generally it means being underground with nothing to see for a while so I was very happy to take the bus where, although it is slightly slower (45 mins) I got to see a lot of Paris. I recognized the names of a lot of the stops as metro stops on my normal metro route, so it was nice to actually see what those places look like. The buses are a lot nicer here than in the USA, and are set up differently so there is a lot less room to sit but tons of space to stand.