My exploring today was guided by my need to buy a text book for my "Langue Francaise" class. l'Institut Catholique doesn't have a book like universities in the U.S. However there are several options to this problem. The first is a store called the FNAC. It is basically a combination of Barnes & Nobles and Best Buy. There are two FNACs within ten minutes walking of the school. The closest has five floors the top two possessing the books and the bottom three the electronics. The other FNAC is just for electronics, so no luck there. The best solution for finding text books is at a store called "Gibert Jeune". It is a very large store that resides around the Place Saint-Michel. However the store is split up in different locations around the square by subject, which can be rather confusing at first. However I found the text book at some time of searching. I wasn't looking to hard because it was fascinating to browse through all the books. One difference that jumped out at me was that many of the books published in France have a white exterior rather than lots of color and pictures like a American books.

The weather today has been quite odd, but weather everyday is quite odd. It rains here off and on. When the weatherman says scattered or isolated showers he means scattered and isolated showers. Clouds come and go dropping a little rain here and there. Often its sunny out with one city block getting lots of sun while the one just down the street is getting a downpour. A lot of the days have been like that so it seems that this kind of weather is normal. That's alright though because it makes for really good pictures.

Tomorrow I have my French history class in the afternoon so I can go to bed early and sleep in for once.