Lundi, My First Day of Classes

Finally, Monday rolled around out of bed. Speaking of rolling out of bed, I literally had to do that as I woke up noticing that I was running fairly late to class. Thanks to an understanding professor and all of the practice I had had beforehand, I got to class quicker and more easily than expected. My only class on Mondays and Wednesdays is my economics class, from 9h00-11h30. I'm quite excited for the course, and the professor definitely knows what she's teaching us. However, I feel like she wants to pack in as much as possible into any given class period. We only had 15 minutes to complete an activity. Usually, we'd begin to wrap up and get dismissed early, but not here in France! We each read an article in a contemporary journal, discussed it with our neighbour(s), provided a reaction and received a response from our professor (with only 5 minutes to go)! She definitely picked up speed and brought it into overdrive in the end. Especially after having been overloaded on so much French the day and night before, it was quite an overwhelming experience.

After class, Pamela joined me in a mini-voyage around Paris. We went to a diner for lunch and I (once again) had a croque monsieur (I wonder why I don't label my posts with this... I'll definitely have to start now) alongside Orangina (I should probably start labeling with this, too). I then bought my carte navigo decouverte which allows me to travel in zones 1 and 2 of Paris using public transport without having to use individual tickets. [It's SOOO cool, and I definitely feel like I'm too cool for anything, or at least like I celebrity or cop (wow.) when all I have to do is take my wallet out (with my c.n.d. inside) and tap the entrance mechanism's c.n.d. sensor.] We then went looking for a place to buy scarves (to no avail) but did find a great place that sells cheap, good-quality baggage. I bought a really great laptop bag for 7,50 €. Since we couldn't find the scarves anywhere, we parted ways and I went back to my room to wait for Trevor to go eat dinner. We went to the Fondation and joined some of the BU folk over there. The food's like usual cafeteria food, though I must say it makes me want to eat at Baldy.

To end the night, we thought we'd finish off our leftover baguette; however, the baguette was stale. So, thinking ahead for our first planned dinner (I'll keep you in suspense), I thought I'd use it to make breadcrumbs. I tried grating the hardened bread, but failed semi-miserably. :-P