Today I woke up nice and early to skype with my lovely sister only to find out she thought it was tomorrow night and therefore could only quickly chat for 5 minutes. But I have discovered the early bird gets the best internet signal. I might have to become a morning person.
I started classes bright and early at 8:15am this morning. On a Monday. On the first day. I was thrilled. Then again, I don't have classes on Fridays, so I shouldn't complain about one morning class. I started by going into one amphi (the big lecture halls here) only to find out it was definately not 19th century European history but something to do with numbers and statistics. Thankfully the class didn't start and I just casually got up and left when I figured out my blunder. I get to my class, and it actually went pretty well. I think I took pretty good notes for not having done anything in French since high school and I could understand the prof pretty well. After class I had enough time to snag a 60 euro cent coffee and went to my next class.
This is when my day went from comfortable to horrible. The class was so hot and humid; my skin was super sticky. And I chose to sit closer to the back as not to look like a keener. Wrong choice. First of all, the prof talks so quiet and so fast. I could barely make out what he was saying at first. And then when ever I would start to get into the swing of things, the bustle from all the people coughing and sneezing and texting and talking and shifting in their really squeaky seats made it impossible to hear anything. My experience consisted of 2 hours not understanding a word the prof was saying with broken, incoherant French notes that I have to go over to try and make sense of. Note: sit closer to the front from now on. This was one of the first times I felt completely and utterly confused in what was going around me since I've been here. I have the TD, or the seminar-esque class, for the class I couldn't understand in an hour. There will only be 50 students at max so hopefully I will have a better understanding of the course. Wish me luck mes amis et mes amies!
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