officially french

Yep, I'm now officially French. After having gone out Tuesday night and gotten home at about 1:30 AM, I inadvertently forgot to set my alarm clock. And that was bad because I had a can't-miss appointment for my student ID card photo Wednesday morning at 10:15 AM. I proceeded to wake up at 10:45 AM, and the fact that I was quite late immediately donned on me. I don't think I've ever waken up/gotten ready to go faster in my life, but hey, showing up 45 minutes late is kinda the local thing to do. You know... When in France...



The night before had me at a bar called "Underground" for a student/karaoke night. It was good times, but people were tired and, well, as I described above, had to be up kinda early (some had class at 9 as well), so we didn't stay all that late.
















Then today (Thursday) I had my first actual class here. It was Critical Thinking and it seems pretty chill. It's all about questionning consumption and stuff like that. Only 9 people of the 26 supposed to be in the class actually showed up. We watched bits of this old-ish movie called MindWalk by Bernt Capra (based on the book The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra if those names mean anything to you), and discussed some major questions. This is a class where 20% of your final grade is attendance, 40% participation, and 40% a group presentation which is basically like your group becomes the teacher for a part of a class and leads the discussion on a topic you're assigned. My group will have to present 4 weeks from now.

There are two parties being promoted by the school tonight at different clubs. One is an 80s theme night at La Luna which is the same nightclub I was at on Saturday. The other is a "school" theme at a disco called Las Vegas. I am yet undecided as to what I'll be doing.

That's kinda it for now. It continues to be chilly here, and continues to never stop raining. But that's how it goes, and I'm kinda getting used to it. Oh I did try to do some laundry yesterday only to discover that the dryers at the school don't really dry clothes. I left them in the dryer for 2 loads worth (aka 2 hours), and they were still wet. So I moved them to my room to dry. I'll likely check out the laundromat at the closest mall, as in addition to not working well, the laundry room at school is pretty expensive.

And lastly, a couple of photos of the school campus.



My main school building, ESC Rouen.


My residence building. The Pavillon Ango of the Cite Universitaire du Panorama.