Today I woke up at 11:00, ate some toast with jam, some granola, coffee, and orange-grapefruit juice for breakfast (as normal), got ready and walked/bused to the center of town to meet some friends and check out the Matisse museum and some ancient Roman ruins. 

We got a little lost trying to walk there (this happens a fair amount, but walking anywhere in this city is beautiful; I don't really mind), but we finally found a bus to take and made it there all in one piece. I really enjoyed the Matisse museum, but apparently most of his famous works are at other museums, like the MOMA in New York City. The Matisse museum is in an old red building which was built right next to some Roman ruins. Yeah, you know, just some ancient Roman baths, nbd. 

Walking in and around the ruins was great. A friend of ours had been there earlier, so we had our own personal (English speaking) tour guide! There were many different bath houses for both cold and hot baths, a heating system, bathrooms, a drainage system, a road, a meeting hall and an amphitheater.  Things are so OLD here. It's one thing to see Roman artifacts in a museum, but quite another to stand in the middle of a once-bustling town square 3,000 years later. 

Here are some pictures!

Musee Matisse

Ruins

The kids who tried to get us to sneak into the amphitheater with them

No super exciting plans for tomorrow yet. We have our placement test on Monday so I need to study!