Wow. Things are just insane here. I'm constantly on the move, never having any clue how busy I will be from one moment to the next. However, I love it. This week, I attempted to sign up for classes, which was ridiculous. At Sorbonne-Nouvelle, each department tapes their classes to a wall, a thousand students rush said well, and then you individually talk to the meanest secretaries in the world trying to sign up for the class. Easy right? Well as if the process wasn't old fashioned enough, add the fact that I have yet to receive a student card, and there. We have a bit of an issue. In desperation on Wednesday(the day before classes started), I was ready to sign up for Porteguis and theatre, clearly the best way to go. However, I instead attended one of the classes I was interested, and to my surprise it was absolutely fantastic. In a class of 20 or so students, a good 60% are international students studying language and culture. Our teacher is Romanian, so does not follow the strict french teaching methods of her collegues. I was able to handwrite my name on a piece of paper, and bam, I am taking "Langues et societe".
As for signing up for other classes, just going to go with the flow I guess. Haha, we'll see what happens. Today I'm going to attend an Arabic conference at school, so I'm hoping to gain a bit more insight into the department. Now on to the social scene, this past Wednesday was our friend's birthday. It was so much fun. Considering the fact that we are the only people with an oven, I baked a birthday cake. What an issue that was, let me tell you that there is no such thing as frosting in France, and that the cake batter comes in a bag, premade and ready to bake. So, with a bit of nutella and some magic, we had a frosted birthday cake. Now, we just had to get the birthday cake from one side of the city to another, without a cover. So, running through the metro like crazies with a birthday cake in hand, we managed to get the birthday cake safely to the party.
It was a really fantastic time with all our closest friends:). The next night we went to Le Mix again, the dance club I visited the week before. Really fun place, but unfortunantly I have yet to dance the night away in Paris due to the fact that my first day of work was Friday (yesterday).
My first day of teaching english classes went really well. I had 3 classes over a period of 7 hours; the first class of 4, and the second and third made up of 10. They were all great though, and the classes went by quickly. Most definetly the easiest job I've ever had. I'm still waiting to meet with a woman about babysitting her four month old, so hopefully that pulls through. Having both my jobs would completely pay for my rent as well as give me an extra 200 euro a month. Exactly what I need considering I plan on going backpacking this summer.
In other news, I'm going to be visiting a friend of a friend in Tours, about an hour from Paris, at the end of February. I'm so excited! I have never had the chance to experience a french family, so my roommate and I are going to stay with them for the weekend. In all of our email exchanges, they have been so nice. As annoyed as I was when my mother kept bothering me to email them, I'm really happy I finally did.
Tonight, I plan on going on a pub crawl through Paris with all my friends. It consists of hitting 5 bars, before eventually ending up at club dancing all night. It's relatively cheap, and will give us a chance to explore the city a bit. I'm thinking about doing some driving in France, so I'm looking to have my license tranlated seeing as my US license is valid (seeing that there is a translation attached). All in all, things are going very well, with so many things to do!
I'll post again when I can, A+!
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