Tonight was the last super with all the Americans together, the first person will be leaving on Monday - it's very sad! But I don't leave Europe for a little over a week. Anyway, our program director invited us all out to a restaurant for dinner. As per usual dinners in France, this lasted quite some time. But it was really nice to have everyone together at the same moment so that we could all chat (in both English and French) to each other about our experiences and different things that have happened recently. We went to a really nice restaurant (which is actually a chain in France) and we got to order what we liked, thanks Kalamazoo!
Anyway, I started with the escargots, because I had not had them yet in France, and they were quite good, less buttery than I expected, but bread dipped in the sauce was delicious! After I had the scallops and what I believe were cooked endives. They paired the endives with sun dried tomatoes which helped cut the bitterness of the endives, it was really ingenious. Finally for dessert I split a cream stuffed pretzel and a tiramisu. Also during this dinner someone had marrow on their plate and I was really excited that I was able to try it! I found it didn't have much taste but the texture didn't both me that much. After a really long dinner of talking we finally said good bye to everyone and walked home.
Today I also made a day trip to Thiers where I was able to buy some artisan knives. I was very excited because that was one of my goals when I had heard about Thiers, as a city though it is very depressing and there isn't much to do there. All in all, I would recommend going there to buy a beautiful knife, then get right back on the train and go home!
Peace, Love and Leaving on a Jet Plane
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