Sweet schedule!

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Starting Monday, my schedule becomes more normal for the rest of the semester. And by more normal I mean, it rocks. This week is the worst week ever because we have our intense language classes at the Institut, and our real university classes are starting. Thank you Bucknell, for making them overlap. NOT.

Yesterday I had class from 9-12, 1-6. Today, 9-11, 1-5. In all our free time (there was so much) Allison and I worked on our paper that’s due tomorrow—after slightly widening the margins, changing the font, and bolding the periods, we have four pages. (Single spaced…ish. Technically we put two spaces between each paragraph…haha.) I’m not normally a fan of lengthening essays this way, but in this case it was completely necessary, especially since the main point of the paper was to work on the intro and conclusion. That’s what we’re telling ourselves at least. Also, I don’t know the dimensions of French paper, but it’s slightly larger than 8.5 x 11, so our paper really does look pathetic because our computers didn’t format it for that sort of paper…oh well.

Anyway, my schedule starting MONDAY!!! (As in the start of the best schedule in life)
Lundi
4-6 DELF class
Mardi
11:30-12:30 Bucknell en France weekly group meeting
Mercredi
9-11 Tours Artistique
12:30-2:30 French Literature
3-5 DELF class
Jeudi
8:10-10:10 French Literature
2-5 International Relations
5:30-6:30 Prepare for Bucknell excursion (only on weeks when we have excursions on Saturday—about every other week)
Vendredi
REIN A FAIT!!!!! (ie nothing.)

So on weeks that we don’t have excursions, my weekend starts Thursday at 5 and ends Monday at 4. Pretty sweet. Also classes here will be easier than Bucknell. The DELF class is kind of like high school French again, it’s preparing us to take the DELF (B1 level) which is kind of like the SAT (but not really at all—just in the sense that it’s a standardized test and you get a score). Basically it will show that I am proficient in French. I had my first French literature class today too, and it’s a lot less work than French literature at Bucknell. We have to write maybe like 3 page responses each week after reading not too too many pages in a book. And our professor is really awesome (and it’s only me, Allison, and Denise in the class—which is actually the exact same for International relations which starts next week.) In the literature class we’re reading a lot of autobiographies, so our final is to write an autobiography. Sweet? Yes.

After class Allison and I finished (“finished” I suppose) our paper in a crêperie and I had a nutella crêpe. Fabulous and French.

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Comments

[Lauren Eyler]

That is truly an awesome schedule. I had a fried nutella sandwich in the buttery a couple nights ago - bread spread with butter, fried, with nutella in it, and I thought of your adventures. It was delicious, but probably not nearly as good as nutella crepes in cute French cafes! Have an extra one for me!