One month from today is my 21st birthday! :) While I’m not super excited to turn 21 (just because it’s not as exciting when you can drink alcohol before you turn 21...and also because I hate odd numbers), I think it’ll be fun to celebrate my birthday with all of my new friends. The ISEP students are all here (although Michelle Pietri is leaving this weekend because her study abroad term is over) and they consist of Megan, Rebekah, Jasper, Ben, Michelle G, Brae, and Michelle Pietri. My non-ISEP friends so far are Jeroen, Angela, Jan (who left to return to the Netherlands last weekend), Manon, and Frances. I haven’t made any really great French friends but it’s only my second week so there’s plenty of time for that. :)
I haven’t blogged at all these last few days but I haven’t really done much either. On Friday night I went out to the clubs and had a few too many drinks (never again, trust me it was awful), so I spent a major part of Saturday just resting up and trying not to feel sick. We were going to go to Marseille but we didn’t, mostly because I was feeling so awful. :( On Sunday we went out to check out some sales but didn’t find anything worth buying. Since I don’t have any class on Monday, we went to check out more sales...again, nothing to write home about. Tuesday I had two classes and then I invited a few people over for dinner. It turned into a huge party (which was great and I was really happy about) and I made pasta carbonara. It was my first time making pasta carbonara but everyone said it tasted great. :) I also had a cheese plate with sausage, bread, and grapes. And I finally bought a bottle of wine. Overall it was a great evening with really cool people. Around 10 or so, Megan and Jerrica and I decided to watch Inglorious Basterds. They left around midnight but I watched the rest of the movie by myself. It was a great movie with a great plot but the gore was a little too much for me. Not sure I love Quentin Tarantino as a director.
Yesterday I had 2 classes and then went back to my room until Rebekah was done with class. Then Rebekah, Jasper, Jerrica and I went to welcome the new ISEP student Brae to Aix-en-Provence. She’s super nice but she was tired so we only talked for an hour or so. Hopefully she will be able to get her bank account today so we can all receive our monthly stipend. :)
Now I’m sitting in my Media et Societe class and the professor is saying things that I don’t understand. Hopefully, by the end of this semester, my listening and speaking skills with be flawless. Jeroen said he knew someone who could privately tutor me for a fee so I may look into that. I’m very serious about wanting to be fluent when I return home and I just have to force myself into every possible situation in order to become fluent. The problem is just having the confidence to do so.
Tonight all of the ISEP students will be getting together to have a send-off party for Michelle P. She’ll be leaving this Sunday but a few of us are leaving this weekend for the ski trip, so we won’t be here to see her off. It should be a great party with great people and I can’t wait. :) Until next time...
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