The Goings-On of Paris on Friday July 2nd

Bonjour!
It is Saturday morning and raining here! The rain is nice becuase the temperature has cooled significantly. I don't think I've told you about the temperature yet, but it's HOT! Weather.com misleadingly led me to believe that the average temperature in Paris in July is around 72F. Since I've been here (a grand total of almost 3 days), it has been in the mid 90s at least! Also, very few places in the Latin quarter that I've been to have air conditioning...including my residence!!! My dorm room here feels like my room in Lizo when we didn't have air for that week in the spring semester. I'm exaggerating because it's probably ten degrees cooler than that, but it is still hotttt!!
Aside from the heat, everything has been great! The Foyer is in an AWESOME location. It is located on le rue St. Michel, which is very cool becuase it has so much stuff: Endless cafes, book shops, clothing stores, printing shops, paper stores (called a papeterie...very cute!), art supplies stores, shoe stores, crepe stands, and a bunch of stuff like that! La Sorbonne, one of the most prestigious universities in the city, is located on this street too.
Notre Dame on the ile de la cite is less than a mile. I went there yesterday and took pictures and looked at the amazing architecture. I find that most of the pictures I take are of buildings and pigeons. I can explain the former: all of the architecture is beautiful around here! It's crazy to see buildings/monuments/landmarks that are so old! Especially compared to the relatively young age of all the buildings/monuments/landmarks in the states! I can't really explain the latter: I just like pigeons, haha. They're GIANT here! I saw one yesterday that could have easily weighed like 15 pounds!
Some other interesting things I saw while out and about in the city yesterday:
awesome break dancers at the St. Michel plaza, an exhibit at l'Hotel de Ville about poverty, an exhibition in front the of Hotel de Ville about Charles De Gualle, very large crowds of tourists at the Notre Dame (I don't consider myself a tourist anymore, haha), and some tweenage girls in cosplay.
Our classes officially start Monday! Yesterday, we also had our class orientations. My culture class is going to be extremely awesome! We have 15 historic sites lined up to go see, including all of the major places like the Eiffel Tower and the Champs Elysee, but one of the things I'm most excited about is going to the Musee de Cluny. It's a middle ages museum and we will be going to a concert in which the musicians will perform period pieces on period instruments!!! It is going to be so cool!
I had to go buy some books for my literature class. We are reading novels from the middle ages (my teacher specializes in medieval studies) and they have been translated from old French into modern French so that we can try to comprehend what's going on. We were assigned some homework for this weekend, and the stuff we're reading is more difficult than anything I have ever attempted to read before! My dictionnaire is my new bff.
Well, I must wrap this post up. We are going to Versailles today!! I miss you!