Alright team, I know what you're thinking: "Sara's been awfully quiet so obviously she's out having such fun." This not 100% not true, but really that's not why I haven't been blogging.
On Tuesday our internet went out because the residence decided to test a new wifi system and did not inform us very well. (I found a pamphlet in my mailbox today, but I don't know when they originally gave it to us, since I checked my mail this weekend). I was incredibly irritated because I have to do all sorts of things, like emailing every French person at the university hoping that they will respond to me. And I can't do any of these exciting things without internet. I missed out on an invitation to hang out with Yanis because I couldn't get the fb message. Dumb.
But anyways, the internet worked for me on Wednesday morning, but apparently it's still not working for some people in the building. I'm lucky, since I can't get internet at the university until I have a student ID, and I'm still not registered!! hahahahahahaha
On Tuesday I went to class and then we had a visit to the Musee d'Aquitaine in the afternoon. Because we had like an hour and a half break and I had brought along a sandwich, I thought it would be a super fun time to go get my civil liability insurance from across town while I ate my lunch. It wasn't actually such a bad time because it's so nice out here the past couple days. But the LMDE place is exactly like the DMV and it was going to take longer than the time I had available--and I hadn't brought my passport so I might have been waiting and then been sent back anyways.
So I went to the museum with everybody else and that was okay. They are the only museum that has a rosette on display from a church. Why, you ask? Because the rest of the churches that have rosettes prefer to keep them on the wall. Here's how the museum achieved this (at least what I understood of what the woman said).
Some church had this huge rosette (I think it's like 9 feet across) up on a wall. Something happened that made the wall more fragile. So instead of fortifying the wall, they literally built a wall on both sides of the wall with the rosette. The purpose of this? No idea. You couldn't see the rosette--because there was a wall on each side. Later on, some people were all like "church? Nah. Apartment building!!" So these people destroyed the church, but left this awkwardly strong wall as one of the walls of their building. Did they question why it was so awkwardly strong? No. Later on, when people destroyed this apartment building, they discovered the rosette finally, but since obviously the church wasn't there to keep it on, they gave it to the museum. TADA!! The French, ladies and gentlemen. Questioning nothing.
After the museum, I ran home to grab every single document I could find so I knew that I had anything that the insurance woman could possibly want. This is my new strategy.
As it turns out, I did have everything she wanted, and it didn't take nearly as long as I thought. Super nice.
I probably ate noodles for dinner, but I honestly couldn't tell you. The rest of Tuesday is totally gone.
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