My First Train Ride

I took the train today with other Americans to go visit the town of Vichy. Wow am I glad that I did a "trial run" of the train system before leaving for Paris. The boards were very confusing, and we missed our first train that left to Vichy, fortunately there was one about a half hour later. Unfortunately one of the American's misplaced their ticket, and just decided to go home at this point. Then there were 3 of us. We got to Vichy O.K. and started walking around in a random direction to find things. Eventually stopped at a kebab place to eat and continued walking. We found the Allier river, and a couple other historic monuments, then did some shopping. After our legs and feet were hurting we went back to the train station, bought our return tickets and got on the train RIGHT AWAY, and returned home to Clermont. Once back, I had soup for dinner. Considering how cold it is outside right now in Clermont, that's all I wanted to eat anyway! It was a pumpkin/squash soup, and delicious. Then I've just been doing homework all night to try and catch up. Unfortunately because it's the week before break, we have all our midterms - thus a lot of studying. It's not fair! I didn't go on study abroad to actually STUDY!!!!! Haha, but anyway, I feel so smart sitting at a French cafe, drinking coffee and reading a book in French. But anyway, I needed to take a break from studying and tell about my successful (kind-of) train experience!
Peace, Love and Trains