settling down

No, this post is not about me getting married in France. Rather it is about settling into a "normal" life out here.

My last post left off on Sunday evening and it's now almost 6 PM Wednesday, but not too much to tell since then. I had the first of all my other classes, and International Marketing sounds particularly interesting. The teacher is entertaining, and had us all draw a map of the world in less than 5 minutes. He proceeded to go through the pile of drawings, pick up the especially poor ones, and make fun of them.

International Retail Management is kinda boring, but it is what it is. I enjoy the subject matter, and there are powerpoint slides to follow along with. Those were my two classes on Monday, and by the time they were done, I had missed everyone who was going out, so I simply did a load of laundry, and ran into them on their way back from O'Kallaghans later on.

Tuesday was my "day off", and I took advantage of it by going over to the carrefour what must be a record-setting THREE times! The first time I brought some clothes in to be dry-cleaned and made a massive grocery order. I picked up a case of 30 beers for 8.5 euros, and many other drinks, along with a couple of pots, some pasta, bread, cheese, turkey, and other such things. I shouldn't have to make another order for a little while now. Bringing it back was a pain, but I managed. The second trip was done in the afternoon while everyone was in class. I returned to pick-up my dry cleaning, since I really had nothing else to do. Finally, as evening rolled around, John wanted to head over there to pick up a couple of things, so I joined him and we had dinner at one of the restaurants there.

After getting back from my third trip to Carrefour, it was time to organize our trip to Paris this coming weekend. 8 of us (me, Chantale, Heather, Kelsey, Stephanie, Igor, Nick, and Pedro) will be heading down there on Friday at some point, and John may join us on Saturday, so we booked rooms at a hostel. Finally, we ended the night by watching V for Vendetta on DVD, which I had never seen before, and really enjoyed.

Today I attended my first International Law class. It's been a couple of years since I took a law course, so I was a little rusty, but I do find that stuff very interesting. I'm not technically registered for the class yet, as I'm trying to switch out of my Friday class and into that one, but hopefully I'll get a confirmation of that soon enough.

Then Heather, a couple of people from Law class, and I went to the school cafeteria for lunch, which was an experience. They have a "hamburger"-type steak on their menu daily, but you see the French are very fond of meat that isn't cooked all that well, and well, their hamburger steak was rare to say the least. This afternoon I actually had a nap, and then made myself a turkey and cheese crepe for dinner (my specialty here lol), and now there is some kind of meeting with the housing director to voice any complaints we have.

So that's where I'm off to, but I'll be sure to have a bunch more in the next few days, especially after Paris.

Till then,

Dan