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The two week orientation in Bordeaux is almost over and I figured I should dedicate at least one blog post to it. Bordeaux is quite beautiful, albeit a little boring. My host family parents are incredibly nice. The mom is a nurse and great cook, and the dad is retired and a judo black-belt. Apparently Bordeaux is doing a lot of repenting for its part in the triangular slave trade because we've been forced to sit through several several-hour tours/lectures dedicated to the subject.

Yesterday, mourning the loss of DJ AM, we went to the cute and scenic town of St. Emilion, where lots of wine and macarons (a delicious french cookie) are produced. We went on a tour of a Winery, thinking it would be as beautiful as the rest of the town. Unfortunately, it turned out to actually be a huge alien torture chamber. Here are some commemorative pics.