Bonjour a tous! Last night was my first night sleeping in residence and it went well! It's a super quiet building (so far) which is nice. I let myself sleep in today because yesterday took a lot out of me. When I did get up I got ready for the day and took off to ISTC to meet an advisor so I could chose my courses. Once I found where I was supposed to be, I waited around for about an hour and a half. Everything shuts down and everybody takes off for an hour or two at lunch. That, and no one is really all that punctual. If I didn't know this before, it was certainly confirmed today. When the advisor got to his office, we starting speaking in French. It quickly turned into English as I have a lot to learn still! We ended up narrowing my schedule down to the three courses that I need. Much to my surprise, I learned that I basically have February and April free, and a good chunk of March! I see traveling in my future! The school system works differently here. If you were to take 3 courses at the Mount, you'd be taking 3 half credits, going to those 3 classes twice a week, and be going from the start of the semester till the end. Here, I am taking 3 courses but because professors come from all over the world, sometimes they have to cram a course into 3 days! Luckily for me, I am taking a course that lasts 4 weeks, a course that lasts 3 days, and a course that last 2 days. Each course is a certain number of hours so I could be at the school for an hour a day or from 8:30am - 6pm, it all depends! My first course doesn't start until January 10th so I am going to explore the city more and look into getting a job tutoring English or working at an Irish pub that hires international students who are here for short periods of time. We shall see :) After choosing my courses, the advisor showed me around the school. It's really small but I like it a lot! I think it's going to be an awesome experience! When I was done at the school I went to a store called Carrefour. It's basically like a Walmart, only bigger. There I bought a pot, a pan, dishes, some food, and a pillow. Carrying all that back to residence was not fun as it's about a 20 - 25 minute walk. I made it work though! On the way I walked past a woman walking a tiny dog with a fur jacket on. It was both adorable and hilarious. After dropping all my stuff off in my room I went to another grocery store to stock up. I love how different it is here. It makes you really stop and look at what you're buying. I ended up getting about 20 dollars worth of groceries for 6 euros! Food is SO cheap here, I love it. I'm off to go eat now though because 1 - I am hungry and 2 - all the lights in the hallways are timed so as I sit here, writing, I have to keep getting up to turn the light back on so I'm not sitting here in the dark haha. Good thing they're not like that in the rooms and bathrooms!
Adieu!
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