1. went to Travaux Practiques. Our professor seems nice, but we have tons of work to do! For Thursday I must translate my resume into French, write a cover letter for my (as of now) undetermined internship and do some grammar exercises.
2. Went shopping for some essentials: tissues, paper towels, notebooks, folders, etc. Then bought Bienvenue Chez les Ch'tis, that crazy movie I talked about last semester and that is not available in the US anywhere. So. I'm very happy. Also it was not too expensive and I had a lovely chat with the check out guy about how the American remake with Will Smith will probably not be anywhere near as good as the original. Mais "on verra"!
3. Went back to BU center for a conference that was scheduled at the exact time of the inauguration. Luckily, they pushed back the conference and set up the big screen so that we could watch the speech. However, before that we were crowded around a tiny computer in the professors' room and Sam and I were trapped behind these heinous girls who kept making fun of Aretha Franklin and whispering and giggling to each other (and oh my gosh, one of them was actually twirling her hair. I kid you not.) and saying things like "the only reason I wanted to watch this was to see what Michelle Obama is wearing" and "Why isn't [Obama] smiling? Shouldn't he be happy?" UGH. I am SURROUNDED by MORONS (this idiocy is the main reason living at La Fondation is not so wonderful. I will eventually talk about this, I promise. For now, I will just tell you that my entire hallway is filled with BU girls and that they've already brought home French guys and the walls here are really, really thin. Get the picture?)
4. The conference itself, on the education system in France, was completely pointless, as we are following an American program and the professors here have been forced to adapt to our way of grading/teaching/etc. Also it was really dull and, as Sam put it, Obama's inauguration speech was kind of a hard act to follow.
5. Bought plane tickets to Prague for Spring Break! Very excited!
Alright, time to shove the earplugs in (thank you, Trevor!) and hit the sack! A demain!
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4 comments:
haha - you're welcome. also, agreed about the conférence crap.
"on verra"!!! no more on va voir?!!
Haha, that's what the guy said to me. Both work.
Why do Americans love Hawaii?
Because as soon as you step off the plane you get lei'd.
(ba-doom splash!)
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