Another week already gone from my great european adventure. Real classes started this week which was certainly interesting. Just as we all thought we had settled we had to run around trying to find new classrooms and listen to 2 hours long lectures of a french professor talking in monotone into a microphone. It is a bit of an intense experience at first but I think eventually I will get used it. I just have to get really good at taking lots of notes in french. All of my exams in my smaller classes will be oral presentations to the class so that will certainly be interesting. Some of the students who have been here since August were helpful with picking topics, some were not but I guess thats the french way. We have almost finished all of our paperwork missions, just a couple more this week and then I should be legal in this country (finally). Biggest news of the week is that Caitlin Clarke is coming to visit this coming Thursday, I am quite ecstatic. Look for lots of crazy shopping and food adventures once she gets here! Another big market day today, got my hands on some gruyere which will be gone in a day because it is even better than I remember. I met my marrain and parrian this week, my two mentor students at school who are both extremely nice and have already gotten me involved in the theatre group and made lunch plans with me. It is nice to have people at school looking out for all of us. Big task of the upcoming week is to find some places to take Cait to dinner and a decent laundrymat. All my love from France. For those of you in Burlington, stay strong the cold will pass eventually!
Our weekend hallway antics:
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