i suppose this one should be called, school, or lack thereof...

so orientation week. technically two weeks ago, but alas, i'm a bit behind the times. michael and i show up the first day and attend the first orientation part. then comes coffee break. we meet a few people during that break. little did we know that they would turn out to be some of the coolest people we know, and the ones that we spend pretty much every day with. after coffee break we had the first of a 7 part lecture series all about france and paris and studying there, and what exactly that meant. i cannot even begin to explain to you how truly and utterly boring it was. awful.

so we went back home for lunch after the first one, decided to stick it out for one more, but this time came prepared for the boring-ness, (i was equipped with a good book, the rest (meaning texas kids) with laptop computers). at one point the teacher asked about where the americans were, naturally we raised our hands, looked around at what we were all doing and proceeded to crack up. half of us were on laptops. i was reading a book. jess was listening to music. there was a sleeper or two, and a couple of us were drawing. oh and we were in the back row. oh and, everyone else that was there (meaning non americans) was taking copious amounts of notes and paying close attention. we were a bit of an embarassment. so after class number two, we proceeded to skip the rest of the week of orientation.

note: we did make one valliant attempt to attend class on thursday afternoon of orientation week, but it did not materialize and we proceeded to drink mimosas in the school courtyard instead. oh and then we went to lunch and drank wine. and then it was happy hour. and then it was time to go out for the night. overall, a successful, school-less thursday.

also: as for the first week of class, my first two classes were cancelled. so i only had half the amount of class i was supposed to have. so far school in paris has been non-existant and i'd like to keep it that way.