Bordeaux is cool!! Cooler than Paris!

So today, class ended early so that we could pack and head out to Bordeaux! After a lunch of kebab, we jumped on the train where I slept for 3.5 of the 4 hours! For the next two nights while we're here, we are staying in a youth hostel which is super super cool. There are 6 of us (all from our group) staying in one of the rooms tomorrow, and then the two others from the group have their own room. When we "checked-in" they gave us a key and a set of sheets and that was it. The room is really big and the showers/bathrooms are really nice! We haven't spent a lot of time here so we haven't met too many people yet, but everyone here is very friendly and helpful! 

For dinner tonight, we walked around the city and eventually ended up at Chez Leon where I ate this delicious pesto pasta. We strolled around town for the rest of the evening and got to see the river all lit up at night. The city feels more like Montreal than Paris because it feels way more metropolitan (I don't think that's the correct word) than Paris. The architecture of the city looks like Paris, but it's much more diverse and there are a lot more different kinds of people there. I wish we had more than a weekend to spend here! Tomorrow though we're going to a wine tasting and then we'll have more time to explore the city! 

Update: I forgot shower shoes so even though the shower was very nice, that kind of worries me. 

Additionally there was a terrorist attack today in France! (Also in Kuwait and another country...) it was on the complete opposite side of the country though so it's not too big of a deal for us! But still scary that that happened for sure. I'm not 100% on what happened or why, but I'm sure details will continue to come out.