Nancy et Metz

So I took my bio exam on Friday and it didn't go super well. I probably only studied 3-4 hours, so it's not a huge surprise. There was also an equation that I definitely should have memorized but didn't. Oh well; we'll see what happens. Friday night I watched the best French movie I've ever seen, "J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster", "I've always dreamed of being a gangster" in English. It's four separate stories of people who really want to accomplish a small crime, but utterly fail. It starts out beautifully with one of the main characters getting out of his car with a pantyhose mask on and walking into a pole. Then yesterday the group visited Nancy and Metz, two towns in eastern France. In Metz, we saw a really cool Gothic cathedral, with some of the windows done by Chagall. I got a book on him from my cousin after graduating from high school and now I'm running into his stuff everywhere. He also did the ceiling of the main opera house in Paris. Here's one set of windows:

And here's a shot of the front of the cathedral:

Wandering around Metz we also spotted some gardens, so I took a photo for ma mère. Happy Mother's Day!

Before getting to Metz, we got a small surprise: Thermopolis, a French spa and swimming pool type resort. The thing about pools in France is guys can't wear trunks. Wendy tried to explain it to me as a hygienic concern, which I guess makes sense. In any case, all the guys ended up wearing "slips de bain", Speedos, or as I called them, "Man panties". So that was a little awkward, but overall it was a cool place. They had this whirlpool thing on the outside of the pool where you could just get pushed around by the current. There were also three saunas: one in which you sweat a lot, one in which you can barely see or breathe because of the mint-flavored steam (remember that episode of Friends?), and then one which was so hot I felt like my face was melting like that guy in Raiders of the Last Ark. Anyways, overall it was pretty cool and now I just have two weeks left here. So little time...Again, good luck on finals!