First day of classes

Tuesday was the first day of my classes, because I only have class on Tuesdays and Thursdays really--I don't know why everyone schedules their classes on the same day.

I began the day in Cognition (the master's course) at 8h30.  I couldn't honestly tell you what really happened, because I don't understand most of what she's saying.  In addition, these lectures aren't dynamic, they're super boring.  The professor sits in the desk in the front with a big stack of papers and reads them off to you.  Your job is to write down everything they say.

When you're still trying to puzzle out what they're saying and write it down, you miss big chunks here and there and it's really just an unfortunate time.

I had a really hard time finding this class because a whole bunch of the campus is hidden behind other buildings and it's hard to figure out where things actually are.

This professor let us out 7 minutes late, and so I was automatically 7 minutes late to my next class, because the classes don't have any time between them.  The good news is, the same professor teaches my next class, so I still obviously got to the next class before she did.

It kind of sucks though because the lectures are two hours long, and they're right back-to-back with the same professor and so I don't really know how much I can take.

The second class is my least favorite of the four I've had thus far.  It's "personne, rituel, et cosmogonie" but I don't think she talked about any of that at all.

After this class (which I have with the three other Anthropology Germans from my language class), we found another German whose name I think is Julien, but I'm not certain.  We took him with us for lunch.  On the way, we found Ludovica and Oskar and Julien's friend Alex from Romania.  Ludovica and Alex joined us for lunch.  We were supposed to meet Mitchell the other American at a specific place but everything was really confusing because only a few people were really hungry and he wanted to go to a coffeeshop and then some people got fish and chips and it's just like WUT.

We stayed at lunch for like forever, and I don't think I went back home even though I have three hours between my second and third class of the day.

We were all supposed to meet on the stairs at 15h20 to go to this third class, but then at 15h22 no one else was there because only the American is EVER on time for anything.  So I left them all to find the room themselves.

You have to go awkwardly up some (very scary) outside stairs and then inside a building and then up more stairs and through another building and up some more stairs to find the room.  Very tricky.  In the end, only Lisa ended up showing up to class because everyone else decided just not to come.  This really wasn't a bad decision because our professor didn't turn up.  She's apparently also sick, and her classes won't start until next week. That's what the two other French girls said who where there.  Then they asked us if we wanted to go out for coffee.  We went with them and a girl from the California program came too.  Her name is Brenna and I believe I've actually met her before.  There are about 50 Californians here for the program.  Then you add me and Mitchell and you've practically got America covered.

We went to the pub/cafe thing right next to the campus.  I didn't look at the menu at the time the waiter guy came up to ask, so I blurted out that I wanted a tea.  It was about 1200000 degrees outside and I didn't really want a tea, but I had it anyways.

It turns out these French girls are non-traditional students coming back for a second degree (which is why they look older than the other License students).  One of them was a nurse and one was something that I think is like a paralegal?  They were really nice.

Lisa's friend/landlord man came and sat with us too.  He's pretty nice.  She moved out of his apartment, but is going to stay again with him for a couple days because her place is being exterminated now.

That night, then, I went to French class.  It's really irritating because as it turns out the French classes you can get credit for are held during the day, and they are all offered on Tuesday and Thursday so unless the final schedule changes, I won't be able to take these courses at this campus to fill up some of my ridiculously many credits.