Today was a double day to make up for the fact that we'll be missing class. I didn't think it was going to be as full and exhausting as it ended up being, but alas I was wrong.
I had trouble sleeping last night and I can't figure out why. Anyway, that lead to me getting up half an hour later than I have been since Monday. I woke Atyeh when I got up, but she decided she needed more sleep. I guess they'd stayed out really late so she needed more sleep (in hindsight, I wish I'd done the same). I scurried to head to breakfast with Tang, and as soon as we got there, I had a strange feeling that I hadn't locked my door when we left our res. I was worried all of breakfast, and by the end of it I decided to head back to check just in case. I walked extra fast (which ended up being a bad idea) to go back to the Parc and it turns out that I had locked my door when we left the first time and this trip back was just a waste of energy. I quickly headed back to get to class in time. My body ended up aching all day from that extra fast unnecessary trip back to the Parc.
Although Gilles tries to engage us in our Lit class, today I just couldn't do it. I was so tired from my lack of sleep that I was really struggling to stay awake and attentive in his class. We finished off les stances du Cid and went into scenes III and IV, in which Chimène makes her appearance.
In Grammar, we basically spent the class doing exercises to help us with les expressions de la certitude.
And finally in Translation, we finished up the animal facebook text.
I had lunch with Tang and decided that I really needed to go to Centreville to find myself a phone charger. I got Tang to give me directions and I was off. I ended up at Place de Sébastien which is just a basic mall. I was so excited to see civilization of that sort aha. When I asked people where they thought I could find a phone charger, everyone said to check out the Monoprix (which is very similar to WalMart). I did so and found nothing. They had iPod chargers for wall, computer or car but nothing that would potentially fit my phone. There were a lot of cute iPod cases though (ahem so much Hello Kitty). I browsed Monoprix a bit longer before I headed out. Their school supply section reminded me almost of PaperChase (a stationary store in the UK) and it made me very happy. Donya already bought me a beauty of a pencil case from Paris that I brought with me. Had she not, I definitely would have bought one at Monoprix. After failing there, I wandered a bit until I found a cellphone store. I was searching the charger wall aimlessly when an employee asked to help me and bam! He found something! Unfortunately for me, it cost 27 euros. I definitely think it's worth it though because now I have a functioning phone. I stumbled upon a few movie theatres on my walk back to Nancy 2, so I'm hoping at least one of them will be showing Harry Potter (hopefully in English) next week. With the release date being earlier in France, I really would like to have the opportunity to see it as soon as I possibly can.
Going to Place de Sébastien may have been a poor choice, because I ended up being late for class. Lit again, with Gilles, was torturous the second time around. We were reading through the new excerpt Gilles had given us in the morning and I kept falling asleep. The worst thing about that class is that we all sit facing the prof, front row, so if I do happen to doze off he definitely notices.
In Grammar, Anne-Cécile gave us a challenge for our weekend excursion. For the verbes d'affirmation, she told us each to choose 5 and ask other kids from the class (throughout the weekend) the make sentences with those verbs. I'm not sure how well that's going to go down since I only really know 3 of the girls in our class.
After class, they asked us all to meet in the rez de chausée of Nancy 2 to take a group photo. What we didn't know is that the photo was being taken as we were all waiting around. Hopefully they didn't catch me at an awkward moment aha. Then, they separated us to explain the plan for the excursion to Normandie. Basically, we leave tonight around 0h30 (that's 12:30AM for those of you who don't understand 24 hour time) and arrive at our first destination (les falaises d'Etretat) around 9h. Then, we'll head to Honfleur for lunch, and then arrive at the hotel in Deauville around 16h. We'll have the evening to do whatever we please, and then regroup Saturday morning for our visit to the Tapisserie de Bayeux. There, we're going to the Tapisserie, having lunch, and then heading to Omaha Beach (which is where the Americans landed on June 6th 1944). Finally, on Sunday we'll leave Deauville around 10h, have lunch at Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, and get back to Nancy around 22h. Why it will take so long to get back is beyond me. I figure we'll take the scenic route.
After that, I found Jessica and Christopher who were talking to Dr McCreary (I don't know if that's the proper spellng). They're from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. I'm sure I've mentioned them (well, the Americans as a whole) before. Jessica is one of the girls with whom we took the tour of Nancy the first day here, so I'd met her before. Atyeh and I met Christopher the first day as well, but we hadn't seen him since. He is an interesting guy. He is in love with French-Canadian culture and wants to study at l'Unversité de Laval. So, naturally, we talked about Québec and French Canada etc. We also had a nice conversation about Harry Potter at dinner that really made me happy. I can't wait to see the last movie. We also had an interesting conversation about the Confederate Americas (I guess that's in relation to racism and slavery, at least that's how the conversation panned out) and how a lot of Americans still believe in the Confederate way of life without being racist. It worked out to be the same way that I see religion. Though I don't practice religion, I don't condemn it either. I will gladly sit with someone religious and learn about why they have faith and how their Church works, but because I grew up without any religion forced upon me (for lack of better words) I find it hard to have faith in anything as concrete as religion teaches. I guess it's also because I grew up in a family of scientists. Not to say that I don't believe that some sort of higher power exists, but I think that since every religion to a sense believes in the same creator, putting a name on it or practicing a certain way kind of invalidates the others to an extent. I'm not blogging to talk about religion so I'm not going to go further into it, but that's my general consensus about it.
Now I'm home from dinner and getting ready to pack for our trip to Deauville. I'm hoping that everything will fit in my backpack, but we'll see. I'll post about the weekend when I'm back.
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