So apparently some schools have vacation this week - whichever schools my History and Poli. Sci. profs teach at - because my History and Poli. Sci. classes are cancelled for this week. Don't fear - I still have the same amount of class time because we had an extra session/extra time added onto some class meetings.
I got up this morning (to the sound of power tools - there is construction above and below me). And got up for the day. Even though I didn't have classes, I had plenty to do. I had a friend accompany me to the university (which ended up being unnecessary but I enjoyed and appreciated her company) to verify the class times of the potential course I want to take. I have selected 4 that I will be observing/attending this week and then if none of those work out, I have a fifth selected that I can sit in on. After trekking down to the University (when I say trekking, it's not more than a 10-15 minute walk from the Institute), I had intended/expected to get a paper copy from the secretary but clearly that was not doable as inferred by the crowds of native French students in the hallways swarmed around bulletin boards of schedules. So I took pictures of the course schedules and we left the University.
No more than 20 minutes after returning from the University, we all received a message from our program Director saying she had a paper copy of the Literature department's course schedule. Haha. So I went down to her office, confirmed when my courses meet, confirmed that I could try out different courses, and verified the different types of courses. Though I was frustrated that she had gotten the paper copy after I'd already gone down to the University twice, but she was very helpful with everything else. Tomorrow I will be sitting in on two classes on at the University. Basically this week I will have the same amount of class time as every other week because of my other two classes being cancelled. It's perfect timing.
After that I returned to the Institute, worked on some stuff for summer jobs/internships then went home. For dinner we had (I think) blintzs with fried eggs and pasta with ratatouille and grated cheese. After dinner we watched the movie, Janis et John, about Janis Joplin and John Lennon...kind of. Then after that we watched the Classical Music Awards, like the french version of the Grammys for classical music.
Tomorrow is sure to be an exciting time with it being kind of like my first day of school!
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