First day of school, again! Haha apparently today is the real first day of school, unless you're international. At 1:00 this morning, I received a text message telling me where to go for my first class this morning. So I was super prepared…not! But apparently it's no big deal, because nothing ever happens here when it's supposed to and it's just kind of Hakuna Matata. At least the professor of my class-for-French-people course is really nice. She tried to help me get a textbook. However the other students already got all the books from the library, so I'm not really sure what I'm expected to do. I really don't want to buy it, especially since it's a book about translating French to English, which I'd say I'm pretty good at =) Maybe it's like the US, where books are recommended but not as necessary as the professor makes them seem ;) Seeing how everything else is kind of not important, I doubt textbooks really matter.
Funny moment of the day: my professor (a different one) kind of laughed at me today, not directly and not in a mean way, just laughter at one of my comments. And no, he wasn't laughing because I said something stupid or wrong. We did an introduction exercise, and one of the exercises was to complete the sentence "If I was a monument I would be………." I picked Big Ben because I always wear a watch and amalways on time. The professor looked at me and said "How long have you been in France?"
"2 weeks" I replied.
"Well, I'll let you discover why that's funny on your own then."
"Oh, don't worry, I've already discovered. Believe me." Then I realized I said that out loud…whoops. At least he (and the rest of the class) just laughed =)
I met a bunch more international students today! Lots more friends =) Hence the short post - I hung out with them all evening and want to go to bed now haha. The good news is, one of them told me I might be able to get a refrigerator for free in my room! So I need to wake up early tomorrow to go to the secretary's desk before my classes start.
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