The Mundane...

     My dad made a good point that I haven’t really described what my daily life is like either in a post or in pictures, so here you go dad, here is what regular life is like:

I get up in the morning in my room that is the same size if not bigger than my room at home.  I get my own bathroom too.  The room is kind of weird though because I have two random chairs not including my desk chair.  I like them and I use them it’s just weird.  

 

After getting ready for school I leave my house and meet up with my friend Lea to walk to the tram stop.  It takes about ten minutes to get to the tram and then another twenty-thirty minutes on the tram to get to school.   

Our campus is really not that pretty, but whatever, most of my time isn’t spent there anyways.  This is Lea again, she posed for me to make the shot prettier.

 Once we get to school we usually have just enough time to grab a café au lait before it is time to go to class.  

I only have classes Monday through Thursday and both Wednesday and Thursday I only have one class each day. 

Here is my schedule:

Lundi: 8:30-9:30 phonetics, 8:30-10:30 lit lecture (it is not obligatory for the exchange students, so it’s okay that there is an overlap, don’t worry dad, I am still going to class!), 13:30-15:30 history lecture

Mardi: 8:30-10:30 history section, 10:30-12 communications, 15:30-16:30 honetics section, 16:30-19:30 methodology

Mercredi: 10:30-12:30 literature section

Jeudi: 10:30-12 compte rendu

My classes are all pretty interesting except for the lectures.  During the two-hour lectures the professeurs literally sit on stage with a microphone and talk for two hours straight.   We sometimes get a five minute repose (break) but that is barely enough time for even a bathroom break.  For lunch we usually eat at a cafeteria, or grab a sandwich at a café.  After school there really isn’t anything mundane about my schedule.  I never know what I am going to do for lunch or until dinner, usually it involves a lot of walking around doing who knows what.  I have dinner at around nine most nights.  Some nights we have dinner parties but I am very rarely notified of these so more than once have a gone downstairs for dinner in my pajamas only to find out that there are a bunch of strangers there for someones birthday or something.  

This is my host family-from Left to Right: Me, Fanny (Pierre's wife), Bago (new foreign exchange student from Spain), Jean-Lucien (high school student who goes to a private school in Bordeaux), Pierre (Maylis and Patricks' eldest son), Patrick (host dad), Maylis (host mom), Andrea (same as Jean-Lucien), Romain (Youngest son, pseudo-lives at home with his GF), Caroline (Romains GF), Jean (always around but works at a potato/fry company)