Les Syllogismes....

Have I ever mentioned just how much I adore Monsieur Rogues and his Rhetoric class? There's something strangely endearing about the way we treat the whole thing like a game--essentially, we were supposed to make up conclusions and we were encouraged to find the most nonsensical thing possible. This was a bit of what I'd been missing the past few days, the love for academia that just results in pure joy. When I'm home, I've often experienced this same feeling with my fellow Classics majors, when we start talking very intensely about a certain facet of the text we're reading, and it just results in utter hilarity. Anyway, it was a lovely class today, and I wish I were looking as forward to the rest of the day...

Tomorrow I hop on a train to Lyon around 18h00 at night, which means that tonight is preparation time. I've been looking around at what you can do in Lyon (it's the second largest city in France after Paris--figured it shouldn't be too hard to find stuff to do), and it looks like it's going to be a wonderful old Roman city. Fourvière is their big gothic cathedral (there's one in almost every city worth its salt in France), and la colline de Fourvière is the site of the original Roman settlement, so there are plenty of ancient ruins. Who says I need to pay to go back to Greece and Italy when there are plenty of Roman ruins right in my backyard?

Hope you all have a lovely weekend, since I'll be away starting tomorrow evening, and I'll be passing la plupart d'aujourd'hui doing things like laundry and packing...à tout à l'heure tout le monde!!

Gabrielle Sidonie