I worked on my classes most of the day today. This coming week is going to be busy as we leave for Nice immediately after classes on Friday. The day was so beautiful that I couldn’t stay inside the entire time, so I went to Esch.

I had been to Esch before but was disappointed. I’m not sure why. I had an enjoyable and productive visit today. I saw the Église Saint Joseph, which was built in 1873. I did my best to get the entire church in the photographs, but because there are buildings all around, I could step back only so far.

One of my quotidian finds in Esch was a store that had sweatpants for a reasonable price (8€). Other inexpensive stores wanted twice that, and at clothing stores, they started at 30€. It wasn’t unusual to find that sweatpants cost more than khakis. I also found an inexpensive pair of “house shoes.” Europeans do not wear outside shoes around the house, which makes sense. So when in Rome….

Luxembourgians are generally about the size of Americans, although I’ve see far fewer morbidly obese people here. I was surprised to discover that it was difficult to find shoes big enough for me. One place finally had a pair that fit, which was lucky since it was the biggest size they had! I was also surprised about the clothing sizes. I had wanted to buy a medium pair of sweats but large was the smallest they had. Good thing, too. When I tried them on at home, they were the perfect size, if not a little too small.

I spent the rest of the evening working.