They don't really care about us

Michael Jackson reference!

Nimes really was amazing. My friend is from there and called in the troops (his dad) to take me out to the Pont du Gard, one of the largest remaining roman aquaducts. This guy was great, but he certainly talked my ear off. He also took a picture of every single thing in the museum. Every. Single. Thing. But after 3 hours we were off! I saw La Maison Caree, a temple dating back to Jesus Christ. Thomas Jefferson came to Nimes once and said that it was the most beautiful building he had ever seen. I thought it was rather plain, but I suppose the fact that it is really old, etc. does make it really cool. There was a really beautiful garden with roman statues all over and I honestly could have stayed there for a whole day. I ran back to the train station only to wait for a delayed train. I was tired when I got back, obviously as you can see from my lack of proper syntax in my last post. I just loved sitting in front of a building that was almost 2000 years old while I ate my mussels and fries at an outdoor cafe. Ah France.

Today I went to church. Here is one thing that can bother me about French people, or just people in general. In a conversation, they can ask, "do you know what I am talking about, this thing?" and you respond, "yes, actually, I know exactly what you are talking about." They then feel the need to expound on said thing, telling you everything they know as if you are begging for a lesson. Why ask if you are going to tell all anyway? Well, that happened to me today about protractors of all subjects. But during church we talked about the fact that though there are many different races and cultures at church, with the gospel we look past differences and we see the more simple things we have in common. Simplicity is also a great way to love a person. So even though there are French, Madagascarian, African, Asian, Arab, Spanish, American, etc. people at church, we have a culture of the church and therefore have enough in common to love and support one another. I found that to be very striking. Especially in my church we have tons of opportunities to meet people and make friends from other places. And they can all become very close, dear friends, even though we come from different parts of the world and have very little in common.

I am maybe also thinking about this because I said goodbye to my Spanish today. She and her friend left for Spain, so they could go on vacation with their families. I enjoyed working with her, and I saw her develop many great talents while she was here. She said she doesn't like saying goodbyes. I learned a lot from her though, and they were a lot (sometimes too much) fun to have around.