Friday I had my French class followed by a lecture on the modernisation of authoritarianism, which was a little bit difficult to follow, so thank goodness for lecture recordings! I will definitely have to listen to that one again.
In the afternoon I went for a run and then met Phoebe at the library so we could book tickets to Barcelona for Simon's 21st over the spring break. It's amazing how cheap flights are within Europe, it was possible to get a return flight for 40 euro if you want to leave at 7am! We chose to splurge an extra 15 and go in the evening.
For dinner a group of us went to Rue Monsieur le Prince where there are tons of Japanese restaurants and ate some sushi, before going to see 'Somewhere', the new film by Sofia Coppola. It was quite strange, but I actually really enjoyed it and the soundtrack is excellent.
Samedi
Saturday was quite productive, I wrote half of one of my oral presentations at the library (on fair trade wooo), and then did some washing, did the weekly shopping and then went for a run. It was a fairly rainy day though so I decided to save my expedition to Montmartre for another time.
In the evening we went to our first proper 'French' party. Gabi is seeing a guy from one of the other specialised business schools and he invited us to his housewarming. Whilst there were about 7 of us Aussies, it was nice to actually spend the night speaking in French and everyone was really friendly.
I also got really lucky and on our way out of the party at twenty to four a bus pulled up next to us that just happened to be going right to my apartment, so I got on and was home in no time at all for a grand total of 1,80 euro. The perfect end to a great night!
In the afternoon I went for a run and then met Phoebe at the library so we could book tickets to Barcelona for Simon's 21st over the spring break. It's amazing how cheap flights are within Europe, it was possible to get a return flight for 40 euro if you want to leave at 7am! We chose to splurge an extra 15 and go in the evening.
For dinner a group of us went to Rue Monsieur le Prince where there are tons of Japanese restaurants and ate some sushi, before going to see 'Somewhere', the new film by Sofia Coppola. It was quite strange, but I actually really enjoyed it and the soundtrack is excellent.
Samedi
Saturday was quite productive, I wrote half of one of my oral presentations at the library (on fair trade wooo), and then did some washing, did the weekly shopping and then went for a run. It was a fairly rainy day though so I decided to save my expedition to Montmartre for another time.
In the evening we went to our first proper 'French' party. Gabi is seeing a guy from one of the other specialised business schools and he invited us to his housewarming. Whilst there were about 7 of us Aussies, it was nice to actually spend the night speaking in French and everyone was really friendly.
I also got really lucky and on our way out of the party at twenty to four a bus pulled up next to us that just happened to be going right to my apartment, so I got on and was home in no time at all for a grand total of 1,80 euro. The perfect end to a great night!
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