after paris, luxembourg trip, and classes.
After paris is when our classes really started and we had a bunch more things to do. We are talking this french litterature class with madame Gilet. I don't really know what to think of the teacher yet.... but she seems nice. We get to pick our own book to read throughout the semester which will be nice. We have an arts and ideas class with our direction Ron Lyndaker. We will be doing a lot of cultural things like seeing the opera. Then we have a project village class with the best teacher ever Mr. Poret. In this class we have to do research on a certain village/ topic in the lorraine and write a 5-10 page paper on it. We are reguired to visit the town and talk with the locals. I think my project is going to be on cheese and the making of it. There are some cute towns he suggested where I can go and see how cheese is made. That should be fun, maybe not so intellectual but cheese is so good! We also have a french history and civilization class with the same man, haven't started it yet. Then we have to take some test this coming monday to get placed into a level of french, probably grammer or something, though im not sure. Our schedule is still up in the air and its kind of confusing. Ohh and we have to audit a class for the university. Im gonna audit this one called: the history of the french language. Should be interesting. AND my director said I could take a class in german so im gonna take: the history of europe in the 19th century.
Enough about classes on to the more exciting thing: Luxembourg. I decided with my friend laura from lc and a bunch of other erasmus students ( international ones) sort of spur of the moment to go to Luxembourg for this international festival of music. We got there in the afternoon and it started to rain, it wasn't raining in nancy when we left ( it was beautiful and warm), and it was cold, really cold. The festival was in the main square, there were i think 2 or 3 different locations with bands playing. The bands were from africa, finland, italy, and other places. The music was really cool and we saw this marching band which was quite fun. For dinner we went to none other than Pizza Hut, but man i have never seen such a nice Pizza Hut. The restaurant was huge and there garlic bread was fantastic. After that we went back out to here more of the music. When that was finished we went to a bar and drank some beers. Then we went to this club where people were dancing. It was hot inside, and it smelled of smoke so I ended up just sitting outside with this other girl. There were no trains back to nancy at like midnight or 1 so we had to take the earliest one in the morning which was at 5:30. Basically I didn't sleep all night until I got back to my house at 7:30. The experience was worthwhile, it was so much fun, but since it was so cold and i was not really prepared clothing wise the last few hours just sitting outside this club were horrible.
If you have never been to luxembourg you dont really need too, it is like it looks on the map: a dot. The town is really small, we circled it a couple of times that night. lol. Luxembourg does bring in great musicians though, since its trying to boost its reputation. Overall I had a great weekend and cant wait till we go to alsace on friday with the strasbourg kids. I shall write more when I get back from alsace! talk to you all later :)
