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Salut salut tout le monde!!
I'm finally on a computer where I can use the internet unlimitedly, so I'm going to update...after a long time of absence...
I'm still in France, right now in Toulouse, visiting my former roommate from Grenoble, Ghizlane. She was in Grenoble at the Ecole Supérieur de Commerce and in the middle of her internship when I moved in, and in December she finished the internship and is now looking for a job and living in Toulouse at her brother's place. Where I'm visiting her. The weather could be better, but at least the temperatures are nicer than in Grenoble. Apparently when I was in Germany over Christmas, it went down to -17 degrees Celcius. Anyway, I survived my first semester in Grenoble just fine, no problems, except for my term paper for lexicology, that I turned in about...let's just say a lot too late. So I hope she'll accept it anyway. Maybe she'll have pity on me because I'm an exchange student. :o) But I plan to be better next semester and only procrastinate as long as the actual due date of the term paper will allow.
School here is nice, Grenoble is a little city, really not that big, in a valley created by three mountain chains, and from the school campus, which is actually in the suburb Saint Martin d'Hères, the view of the mountains is so nice.
I moved in mid-August, into an appartment with two other girls, Sara and Ghizlane, both from Morocco and studying at the business school. They were (and still are, of course) really nice and really helped me a lot getting situated in Grenoble. I was really lucky for the apartment, I have a really big room (because it's actually supposed to be the dining room, but it was re-done to be the third bedroom) and a huge kitchen (for French standards) and everything is really close, 10 minutes by foot to get to "downtown", it's not all that big, but lots of shopping opportunities and just hang-out places, the supermarket is right next door, the laundromat too, direct busline to school, and if I want to go to a bigger shopping center, there's a direct line not too far away either. Unfortunately, my two roommates both moved out in December, one to Paris and one to Toulouse, and so when I came back from Germany after Christmas break the apartment was so empty it was really depressing the first few days. But then I got new roommates, exchange students from Norway, a guy and a girl, Marco and Benedicte. So far everything's been going very well, we get along well, too. I especially like when we cook together and have meals together, I don't know, it would be so depressing to live in an apartment where it's basically three strangers that happen to share a bathroom and a kitchen. This way it's better. The only thing that bothers me is that they leave the lights burning anywhere and everywhere, and I don't want to see what the electricity bill's going to look like in February. But honestly, if that's the only problem I'm going to have with them, then I can count myself really lucky.
Exams for the first semester ended last Friday, I think I did well. I'm almost 100% sure that I at least didn't fail any of them, I just don't know what the grade will be for two of them. The other ones I'm not worried about. The thing is, for those two that I'm not so sure about, this final exam is the first exam or any assignment we've had, so I have no clue what the professors are looking for. But I'm not going to worry about it. I'm in Toulouse until Saturday afternoon, and I'm going to enjoy it. :o)
Alrighty, I think that's enough for right now. When school starts again, I'll have more regular access to the internet.
I'm finally on a computer where I can use the internet unlimitedly, so I'm going to update...after a long time of absence...
I'm still in France, right now in Toulouse, visiting my former roommate from Grenoble, Ghizlane. She was in Grenoble at the Ecole Supérieur de Commerce and in the middle of her internship when I moved in, and in December she finished the internship and is now looking for a job and living in Toulouse at her brother's place. Where I'm visiting her. The weather could be better, but at least the temperatures are nicer than in Grenoble. Apparently when I was in Germany over Christmas, it went down to -17 degrees Celcius. Anyway, I survived my first semester in Grenoble just fine, no problems, except for my term paper for lexicology, that I turned in about...let's just say a lot too late. So I hope she'll accept it anyway. Maybe she'll have pity on me because I'm an exchange student. :o) But I plan to be better next semester and only procrastinate as long as the actual due date of the term paper will allow.
School here is nice, Grenoble is a little city, really not that big, in a valley created by three mountain chains, and from the school campus, which is actually in the suburb Saint Martin d'Hères, the view of the mountains is so nice.
I moved in mid-August, into an appartment with two other girls, Sara and Ghizlane, both from Morocco and studying at the business school. They were (and still are, of course) really nice and really helped me a lot getting situated in Grenoble. I was really lucky for the apartment, I have a really big room (because it's actually supposed to be the dining room, but it was re-done to be the third bedroom) and a huge kitchen (for French standards) and everything is really close, 10 minutes by foot to get to "downtown", it's not all that big, but lots of shopping opportunities and just hang-out places, the supermarket is right next door, the laundromat too, direct busline to school, and if I want to go to a bigger shopping center, there's a direct line not too far away either. Unfortunately, my two roommates both moved out in December, one to Paris and one to Toulouse, and so when I came back from Germany after Christmas break the apartment was so empty it was really depressing the first few days. But then I got new roommates, exchange students from Norway, a guy and a girl, Marco and Benedicte. So far everything's been going very well, we get along well, too. I especially like when we cook together and have meals together, I don't know, it would be so depressing to live in an apartment where it's basically three strangers that happen to share a bathroom and a kitchen. This way it's better. The only thing that bothers me is that they leave the lights burning anywhere and everywhere, and I don't want to see what the electricity bill's going to look like in February. But honestly, if that's the only problem I'm going to have with them, then I can count myself really lucky.
Exams for the first semester ended last Friday, I think I did well. I'm almost 100% sure that I at least didn't fail any of them, I just don't know what the grade will be for two of them. The other ones I'm not worried about. The thing is, for those two that I'm not so sure about, this final exam is the first exam or any assignment we've had, so I have no clue what the professors are looking for. But I'm not going to worry about it. I'm in Toulouse until Saturday afternoon, and I'm going to enjoy it. :o)
Alrighty, I think that's enough for right now. When school starts again, I'll have more regular access to the internet.