Superman and Doctor Doom Are Dead

Cabinet crisis: Superheroes and Super villains reunited in crisis. Both heroes and villains are being killed by a mysterious culprit. Superman and Dr. Doom have been killed. The committee has to find culprit as soon as possible in order to avoid an all-out war between good and evil.

Mystique- Taken from Wikipedia

Now, those of you who knew me through high school knows that Model U.N. was never my thing. I debated, sure, but I head never entered into the world of a mock assembly. I never would've imagined that my first experience with MUN would be in France, in English, and concerning the well being and prosperity of our favorite members of the super community. Well, it happened. This thursday, Blake let me accompany him to the University Francois Rabelais Model UN club meeting, where we impersonated our favorite heroes and villains and worked to discover who dun'it.

Blake and I joined forces to advocate for Mystique, the X-Men villain who can impersonate anyone at will. It just goes to show that it's important to watch out for the underdog. In the first 15 minutes of the meeting, the other delegates didn't notice as Mystique changed to the Hulk before their eyes. You would think that someone would accuse a shape shifter of framing beloved heroes like Batman and Spiderman in the murder of some of their friends, but ultimately, we escaped unscathed. The most surprising thing that came out of this whole experience however was how well French English majors can speak English. Half way through, I forgot that the people around me didn't speak english as their first language. It makes me wonder about all of those American french majors out there...

(Just kidding guys, ya'll are thebomb.fr)

Otherwise this week has been pretty chill. Friday night I learned that the Chicago born high school band Kids These Days have gone international, when I heard some french guy playing them over his stereo. It blew my mind. Good going, Kids.

Yesterday, the Institute lead an excursion to two of the famous chateaux in the Tours region and they were pretty awesome.

Cheverny, the first chateau, was well... symmetrical. It was warm and inviting and there was even a portrait of a guy who looked exactly like @Chris Blanchard (Sorry Chris, no photos allowed in that hallway. You did have a pretty sweet dog though) This was probably the best thing about the Chateau though:

It was beautiful and terrifying as you can see by that mean old thing that scared me in the first few seconds of the video. Otherwise, I had never seen so many adorable creatures in the same place in my life.

Chambord was also pretty sick. Select members of our group wandered into some secret passage ways and did not get kicked out by the chateau authorities.

So many discoveries, and such a little capacity to remember all of the wild and crazy things that happen abroad.

Looks like i'll have to blog more often.

Traveling Quincy

(P.S: Does anyone know when the Superbowl is?)