School

Salut!

Sorry for not writing yesterday – I was very busy. I had my first day of class yesterday. Ahhhh – I was completely dreading it. I have be in lala land here in Europe and I almost forgot that I came here to actually attend school. I have one class, Innovation and Product Development for three hours. My schedule is a little weird because it changes from week to week and the classes are in block schedules. It is interesting, but I have a hard time focusing for three hours. We only get a fifteen minute break in between. I really like my professor thought – she is from Holland and actually knew the town that my dad is from so that was cool! We have a group project already – we must take a product and design a new and better package for it. I am in a group with three very immature boys to be honest. I am afraid I will end up doing the entire project, which would be rather unfortunate. I hate group work! I think we finally decided on doing pasta sauce so we will see.

I BOOKED MY FLIGHT TO ROME! I am so excited. I am going to go to Paris to visit Jean-Luc on February 4^th and then fly to Rome on February 8^th. Then on Thursday night, Jasmine, Ben, and I are going to go to Naples, Italy for two nights. I booked a hostel and our mission of the trip is to eat THE BEST PIZZA IN THE WORLD. I am so excited. Also in traveling news, Ana and I spontaneously decided to go to London this weekend! We booked our flights last night. YAY! I am spending way too much money, but I do not really care… it is important to live life and have fun.

I had a three hour class this morning on the history of the European Union…shoot me. I believe that the information is extremely important, but it was soooo boring. My professor literally lectured us on the history of the EU for three hours. It was awful – not to mention at 8 in the morning.

I have my first French class this afternoon. I am looking forward to it. I have decided to start studying French on my own here. There are a ton of French students in the school, but they are not exchange students so they have no reason to make friends with me, an exchange student. We will see what happens. I was invited to a housewarming party by a German girl in my exchange program and I am very excited to go on Thursday. I love German people – they are wonderful.

Tonight I am going to Café Bayard to enjoy the weekly musical Irish group. We are going to try to get there before ten so that we can sit in the same room as the musical group.