After a few weeks.

So it's been a few weeks since I returned to Montpellier. I have a class a lot less this semester so I hope to blog at least once every other week.

The first few days back were really hard; it was cold here and no one else was back yet and all my French friends were with either their families or with their lovers. Lame I know. They also lost my luggage. So I was unhappy and unclothed. But sure enough, things worked out better and Lukas got to visit for a week and my clothes came that day as well.

Since then I haven't been up to much. Lukas just left on Saturday and we had a good week together and visited a bit more of Montpellier, as I had finals last time he was here. I took him to Rue Bras de Fer, which is my favorite in the whole city, and also has an English bookshop/tea house on it. So we took a peek in and ended up spending a good hour in there looking at books.

English books are super expensive here in France, rounding out at around 12 to 15 euros. Compared with the normal french book between 5 and 10 euros, it makes you want to fly to England to stock up on books. So I didn't look at anything but the used books, knowing I would easily spend around 50 euros. But I did stumble upon a book Lukas has been looking for for a while so I bought it for him as a congratulations present for getting into university (which, come to find out wasn't entirely true due to misinterpreted mail).

But Lukas left on Saturday and now eating dinner alone at night is pretty lonely. So I've been working on my German while preparing meals. I downloaded a podcast from Deutsche Welle over break and it's pretty short but super entertaining. It's like a video game but a radio program. I'm pretty sure they also have other ones for other languages, as it's supported by the European Union, produced in England, and one of the producers is French national radio.

I finished it off this evening and really wish there were more episodes. I also tried to use my real computer (I'm now using an EeePC, which works wonders) to update podcasts but of course, it can't find the internet. I've only got one class tomorrow so while I'm doing homework I'm going to go to the library and try to see if it works in there.

I just got off the phone with the registrar at my home university and I'm trying to get approval for a history class here. Basically how the classes work here is there are two lecture sections on two completely different topics that have nothing to do with each other. The classes are around 3 hours long for each section, adding to around 6 hours for 6 credits. Problem is I need six credits for it to count for my graduation. But it is impossible to do six hours of class in my schedule. So they told me to write an email to the head of the history department. Hopefully they will take pity on my soul.

The classes I'm taking this semester seem to be really a lot more interesting than last semester. I'm taking English again, this time with a Shakespeare TD and the CM is on three different topics. My French class this semester is on Avant Garde Literature, which is SUPER interesting. And then a translation course. I'm thinking of sitting in on German as well but I'm having issues figuring out what is the beginners level class.

But my back is killing me from typig on such a tiny computer so I'm outta here.