Picture Time

The City of Grenoble as seen from the top of the tram station. I live in that little red circle all the way to the left. The university is just a little to the left of that, and the city center is just to the right of that, where all the buildings are clustered together closely.

The little bubble shaped trams that go to the top of the mountain above the city. They're very cute. There's a small fort at the top of them that used to defend the city.

Up close of the "bubbles." 

This is what the buildings look like in the older center area of Grenoble. Pretty standard French/Italian style stuff, very pretty.

The apartment buildings where I live. 

I live with a host family on the 6th floor in an apartment building with no elevators. I have to climb 12 flights like this one in order to get to my room. I'm going to have great legs come the end of my stay here.

These hydrangeas
 are in front of an apartment complex I walk past every day to get to and from the tram station. That picture isn't edited (#nofilter), they are really that pretty.

Celebrating the 4th of July in the Park.

Our 4th of July Lunch. Due to a lack of Fireworks and American Flags, this was the most American thing we could think of to do. 

This Saturday (July 5) myself and 3 other girls from the U took a day trip to Geneva, Switzerland. It's a 2 hour train ride from Grenoble. It was a beautiful city. An expensive city, but very nice; even just the food was so expensive. Also I have never seen so many nice cars in one day. Maseratis, Lamborghinis, the latest and greatest Mercedes, Ducati motorcycles, every Audi make there is...it was fascinating.

Back in the Swiss homeland, hooray!!

We hung out at the beach of lake Geneva for a while, even though it was a bit too chilly to get in. It's a really pretty lake, very clear and fresh.

 Blue steel.

 Making friends with the swans on the lake. 

In front of the beautiful fountain and lake and city.

We went to a volleyball tournament that was going on on the beach (Kendall on the right plays volleyball for the U) and we got these sweet free hats. Never turn down free stuff!