I started orientation today! Most of the students are foreign...from Morocco, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Spain, etc. And, it turns out that there are 6 exchange students I didn't know about. 5 girls from Georgetown, and a guy from Detroit. This really helped when it came to filling out all the immigration paperwork today! Dozens of pages of paperwork, all complicated with all the instructions and orientation talks in French. And we all went together to get bank accounts, which was very complicated also! Tomorrow is French written and oral exams, and then we have the weekend to prepare for Arabic oral exams. So after a long long day of tedious details, we had a French buffet (wine and hor'dourves) and then we all went to the beach and took a lovely night swim in the Mediterranean! My French is improving drastically already! All day was switching back and forth, in French, then English, then Franglais, but more and more French all the time!

Menton at night

In the middle of Menton: so many gorgeous views!

La plage. I swam here tonight!
So beautiful!!!
My room, still messy...the others aren't unpacked.