here are some pictures i've taken since i've been here. i've taken a ton so these are the best/my favorite. 

so the top picture is me in a castle in Bretagne where King Henry VII was held prisoner in the 1400s; the middle picture is the entire IES group; the picture that says Benjamin Franklin, was taken at the same port as the bottom picture and the sign says something along the lines of "this is where Benjamin Franklin stayed when he was traveling to Nantes (and got lost in a storm and ended up a ways away from Nantes) when he first came to France to negotiate the first alliance between France and the US."(around the time of the Revolutionary War); and the bottom one was taken at a port in Vannes and those are the "knights of oysters" (it was at an oyster festival....).