Friday, September 5, 2008

No internet makes life hard

So I have no internet in my apartment and that makes keeping in touch really really difficult actually. You don't know how dependent you are on something until it's gone. I published a few posts that I wrote last weekend but never got to actually post due to the lacking internet. This week was not that eventful though, just the last week of prestage classes. We went to a little wine tasting on Monday for civilization class which was fun. The guy was a mixture between Bill Murray and Richard Simmons. Interesting. Then on tuesday they scared us to death about the class system in France by telling us that basically we're not going to know what we are taking until the day before we go, and maybe not even then. And the teacher's are going to talk really fast and the french apparently take really intense notes. Then on wednesday we had the final exam for civilization class. Which was fine. But yesterday, we had the afternoon free! First time ever! They keep us so busy that we can't really do anything to settle in and it's really frustrating. (by the way my english skills have gone down since I am in this weird mix between french and english and I can often not remember how to say things in either language. So if any of this sounds weird, that's why) Me and Renee made apple pie! We had NO measuring equipment, not even metric, so we just guessed on the amounts and hoped it was right. It was DELICIOUS. haha. There were 7 of us sitting around our apartment just eating pie...and quizzing each other one verb conjugations. Oh well what are you gonna do. It made us feel a lot more settled to be able to do something normal in this country. And what's more American than apple pie right? Today was the last day of prestage classes and tomorrow morning is the final. Good times. Hard to believe I have almost been here 3 weeks. But anyway, we went to sign up for classes today, but we just kinda chose which ones we would LIKE to take. Since they have no times set for anything, we don't know if we will be able to take them. Ugh. So tonight it is studying and tomorrow it is finals and Sunday it is Avignon and Monday I figure out my classes, and TUESDAY I start. haha. I'll try to keep up with this blog. I might end up posting several posts at one time...so just keep looking back. Alright, off to study.

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