Product Placement

I started my first real economics class today, all in French! And might I say that I understood more than half of it! But major accomplishments aside, I also have been forced to go to two regional product placements in the past two days. Yesterday was a talk with the Head (I think?) of Michelin. He explained what he does at Michelin, the history of the company, the innovation of it, and his career history. Then he was presented an honorary diploma (I think?) from ESC (my university here). After this climactic "ending", we had another 45 minute long presentation about jobs at Michelin, and how to get one. They were literally offering jobs saying we just had to go to this website, set up an interview, and we can intern at Michelin, then when we (French students only I presume) graduate, we're guaranteed jobs. Weird huh? Then today we had more product placement with a talk from the head of Auvergne Cola (it's pretty much like faygo pop) He was really personable, but I felt it was a way for him to get more consumers and stopped paying attention half way through.
Besides these talks, everything is going very well. Tomorrow I'm meeting with the pastry owner to see when I can work for him. Also tomorrow, the American's are starting their English conversation times with the French students. It will be nice to have the tables turned on them, even if it's only for an hour and a half a day.
Finally, this Thursday, I have the opportunity to go to a vineyard and help harvest grapes for wine! It will be an awesome experience and I'm really looking forward to being out in the French country side, especially farm land, some more.
Finally, I made dinner for my host sister the other night, and I have the suspicion she didn't care for it. I was just simple pasta with a tomato cream sauce and some spinach. Oh well! I enjoyed it at least! I really need to locate this family's spice cabinet if I want to do more cooking here. . .
Peace, Love and AuWWWergne!
(P.S. this is a reference to a web-reality-TV show http://auwwwergne.com/ )