The Days of Dan's Life

Ok so things have not been incredibly exciting and interesting of late, but it's still life in France, and it needs to be posted at some point in time!

Last time, on The Days of Dan's Life:
Our hero overslept and was late for class on Wednesday.

Learning from past mistakes, I got up nice and early Thursday morning, and headed to what has been my favourite class so far, Critical Thinking. Every class is pretty much watching some really interesting movie, and then discussing it, and last Thursday was no different. This time, it was a documentary on Noam Chomsky's works and theories, and then we broke into groups to talk about it.

After class, I opted to return to my room for a little rest, and then did some e-mail replying and things like that, before making one of my famous turkey and cheese crepes for dinner. Come evening time, 6 of us (consisting of Chantale, Heather, Stephanie, Kelsey, Igor, and myself) headed off to a French kid by the name of Adrien's housewarming party, as he had just moved into an appartment with 2 of his friends a couple of weeks ago. It was your pretty standard house party, and the place filled up pretty quickly, so it was a good time. At about 11:30, everyone moved out, most heading to a bar, but we decided to call it a night right then and there, and returned to residence.

Friday was another relatively lazy day. In the afternoon, I went with John to Carrefour (again, that's a store basically like Wal-Mart) and we inquired about purchasing a normal DSL internet line, as the wireless here is of fairly poor quality for the price we are paying. John was the tech guy, with all the important questions, while I was the french to english translator. After talking to a couple of people, we are pretty sure we got what should work, as we got his phone line activated, and purchased an internet kit with a modem. It claims it takes up to 2 weeks to become active, but if it works out, and the signal strength is good, our next step will be splitting a router between a few of us living at this end of the building, and voila, good internet. Friday evening, a good percentage of people in our building left for Amsterdam either on the school-organized trip, or by their own means. 3 of us left-overs, myself, John, and Jaimie from Halifax, decided to try out one of the Thai restaurants here in the city. We ordered and split some spring rolls, lemon chicken, ginger beef, rice, and noodles, and everything was quite delicious. And it was reasonable for a nice restaurant like that, with the bill coming to 14 euro a piece.

That was pretty much it for Friday night, and if you can believe it, today was even less eventful. The building is really rather empty, and after I made a trip to Carrefour to pick up my dry cleaning, I headed out to St Sever shopping centre in Rouen just across the Seine with the Halifaxian pair of John and Jaimie once again. I picked up a couple of small groceries, including finding a jar of salsa which I was pretty excited about. When we got back home, I cooked up some instant rice, which was delicious, and a welcome change from the pasta and/or sandwhiches I've always been making. Now I think I might get started on the reading I have to do for a presentation in critical thinking in a week and a half. It's Saturday night and there is a Habs-Leafs game on tonight, and I definitely couldn't bare missing that, so I need to keep myself busy in the meanwhile. Hence writing this blog despite little to say. So... mmmm... instant rice...

Next time, on The Days of Dan's Life:
A Sunday filled with homework?! Could it be?! And who knows what craziness awaits when Pedro's birthday rolls around on Monday?!