This past weekend a group of us went to London for Saturday and Sunday. It was a lot of fun! We flew there Saturday morning, then checked in and ate lunch at our hostel/pub. I had to register for classes for next semester at 3.15 London time, so I found an internet cafe and got that out of the way. Then we just kind of wandered a while, figured out the Tube, went by Buckingham Palace, etc, then Caitlin and I had to head back to the hostel to get ready to go see LES MISERABLES that night. I was so excited!
Les Mis was awesome! I've read the book (multiple times) and know the music inside out, so it was great to finally see the play as it was meant to be seen. I tried not to cry too much. It was soooo good. Unfortunately, because of Les Mis, I had to miss the France-England rugby game (semi-finals of the World Cup, which is being hosted in France, and even partly in Montpellier). At intermission people were checking the score and France was winning, but when we got out of Les Mis we learned that we'd ended up losing, which was sad. Oh well.
Sunday we just wandered around and were tourists. Saw all the exciting things in London. We actually had good weather: partly cloudy, no rain, didn't even really need a jacket except late at night. Walking around and sightseeing is fun.
Monday morning we got up at 2am, caught a cab at 2.45, caught a bus at 3.30, got to the airport at 5, caught our plane at 6, and got back to France at 9. I had been planning on going to my classes that day, but by the time my hostdad picked us up at the airport at 9.30, we were all exhuasted and I just went home and slept til 6 that night. Also, my hostdad taught me the French phrase for cutting class. We had crepes for dinner. It was yummy.
Yay England!
17 October 2007
Life
Well, apparently I'm really bad at this.
My life since Italy:
Been taking classes at UPV. Mondays I have class from 8.30 to 4.30, Tuesday from 8.30 to 3.30, no class on Wednesdays, Thursdays, 1.00 to 4.00, and Fridays from 9 to 10.30. Overall not too bad, though the 11.5 hours of class on Mondays and Tuesdays wipes me out. But fortunately I have Wednesdays to recover.
Classes are fine. They vary between grammar, oral comprehension, oral expression, written comprehension, and written expression. And I also have a lit class and a civ class. Overall pretty easy. I have virtually no reading and not much homework besides that, so I have a lot less work than I usually do at UNC. Kind of nice to have a semester off from that stress.
Yes, everything is in French.
The French really do say "Oh la la" all the time. And the number of "la"'s is variable. The most I've heard at once was like 14, from my hostmom. I don't remember what she was oh la la -ing at, but it must have been pretty intense.
My life mostly consists of going to class every day, eating dinner at night with my hostparents, and either going out with friends at night (to a movie, dancing, etc) or going to the internet cafe to see if anyone's online. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I can tell my French is improving, even though I know I won't be fluent when I leave. It's still nice to be able to speak much more easily and to understand a lot more easily. I do like speaking in French, and it's fun to know that I can live in a different language if I ever need/want to.
My friend Taylar and I found a church we like! It's a "Evangelist Protest Reformed" Church. I'm not really sure what that means over here, but we like the church. It's about 30-40 people, and Sunday we actually sang "He's got the whole world in His hands" in French during the service. It was awesome. We're going to go back this Sunday. :) I was happy to have finally found a church we can stick with.
My life since Italy:
Been taking classes at UPV. Mondays I have class from 8.30 to 4.30, Tuesday from 8.30 to 3.30, no class on Wednesdays, Thursdays, 1.00 to 4.00, and Fridays from 9 to 10.30. Overall not too bad, though the 11.5 hours of class on Mondays and Tuesdays wipes me out. But fortunately I have Wednesdays to recover.
Classes are fine. They vary between grammar, oral comprehension, oral expression, written comprehension, and written expression. And I also have a lit class and a civ class. Overall pretty easy. I have virtually no reading and not much homework besides that, so I have a lot less work than I usually do at UNC. Kind of nice to have a semester off from that stress.
Yes, everything is in French.
The French really do say "Oh la la" all the time. And the number of "la"'s is variable. The most I've heard at once was like 14, from my hostmom. I don't remember what she was oh la la -ing at, but it must have been pretty intense.
My life mostly consists of going to class every day, eating dinner at night with my hostparents, and either going out with friends at night (to a movie, dancing, etc) or going to the internet cafe to see if anyone's online. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I can tell my French is improving, even though I know I won't be fluent when I leave. It's still nice to be able to speak much more easily and to understand a lot more easily. I do like speaking in French, and it's fun to know that I can live in a different language if I ever need/want to.
My friend Taylar and I found a church we like! It's a "Evangelist Protest Reformed" Church. I'm not really sure what that means over here, but we like the church. It's about 30-40 people, and Sunday we actually sang "He's got the whole world in His hands" in French during the service. It was awesome. We're going to go back this Sunday. :) I was happy to have finally found a church we can stick with.
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