Frustrated
Well we didn't get kicked out of the hotel after the outragous ammount of nosie, but there was a lovely note from Management when we got back Saturday night that pretty much scared what was left of me at that point.
I'm so frustrated right now with the people on this trip. I know it's Study Abroad and you're supposed to be having fun. Also that we've only been here 5 days. But I just get this feeling that people care more about the night life fun than the learning part. It's just not apart of the culture here to go out every night and get wasted. I'm here to learn and experince a part of the French culture, but the night life culture isn't what I want. I want to see how people interact here, what people are doing and how day to day life goes. And what I've learned so far is that everything here is outragous. A hairbrush is like 9.80 euros, that's like $13 for a hairbrush. And there's no where to work as a group here for free. Everyone (according to our professor) works at little cafes, but in order to do that you have to buy something, and once you sit down things get expensive fast. I've also learned that people here move a lot slower than in the U.S. and things aren't open when I want them to be. Like the grocery store next to the hotel for instance, opens at 9 am closes at 7 or 8 pm. Awesome since we have class starting at 9:30 about 20 minutes from the hotel and we have class until 5 or so at which point everyone wants to get ready to go out.
We have group projects due tomorrow and I feel like my group just doesn't care about it. I have a feeling that this project is worth more than they think it is. We don't have that many days of class or that much class work seeing as we're have 16 more days to work before the flight home leaves on the 31st. And in that time we're taking a 4 day vacation to the southern coast, we're going on a company visit, we're going to the embassy and we're spending 2 days in Brussels at the EU. So we really have 8 days of class left, but there's 2 free days in there too, so 6 more class days. Maybe the lack of actual class days is the reason that no one feels like class is what we're here for. Or maybe I just had the wrong ideas about study abroad. Whatever the case, I want to see things calm down some. And I want to quit being frustrated and worried all the time because it's just stressing me out and I'm not enjoying myself. I feel like everyone here has a friend or two along except me and that I always end up alone, which sucks. I feel like this keeps happening more and more as I keep doing things and it really really sucks. It makes me feel like no one likes me and that I have an inability to be in a group. That's not what I want and I don't know how to fix it. Ugh.
We did go to Rouen today, and it was beautiful despite the rainy weather. I wish we were studying there like the original plan instead of in Paris because I think I would be a little more stress free. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one that feels that way since it appears that everyone else here loves the big city except for me. And I keep hearing that people think they would be drinking more if we were in Rouen, which I don't think I'd like that either. Oh well, not much I can do about it.
I need to make it through the next 2 days on about 35 euro, then not spend too much in southern France this weekend or I'm going to be broke by the time I get back to the U.S. I've already gone through about 300 euro, which is rediculous, but we've done a lot of site-seeing and this internet was damn expensive.
Alright my group should be back from dinner soon, I want to get this project done so I can go to bed. Check facebook for picture updates.
I'm so frustrated right now with the people on this trip. I know it's Study Abroad and you're supposed to be having fun. Also that we've only been here 5 days. But I just get this feeling that people care more about the night life fun than the learning part. It's just not apart of the culture here to go out every night and get wasted. I'm here to learn and experince a part of the French culture, but the night life culture isn't what I want. I want to see how people interact here, what people are doing and how day to day life goes. And what I've learned so far is that everything here is outragous. A hairbrush is like 9.80 euros, that's like $13 for a hairbrush. And there's no where to work as a group here for free. Everyone (according to our professor) works at little cafes, but in order to do that you have to buy something, and once you sit down things get expensive fast. I've also learned that people here move a lot slower than in the U.S. and things aren't open when I want them to be. Like the grocery store next to the hotel for instance, opens at 9 am closes at 7 or 8 pm. Awesome since we have class starting at 9:30 about 20 minutes from the hotel and we have class until 5 or so at which point everyone wants to get ready to go out.
We have group projects due tomorrow and I feel like my group just doesn't care about it. I have a feeling that this project is worth more than they think it is. We don't have that many days of class or that much class work seeing as we're have 16 more days to work before the flight home leaves on the 31st. And in that time we're taking a 4 day vacation to the southern coast, we're going on a company visit, we're going to the embassy and we're spending 2 days in Brussels at the EU. So we really have 8 days of class left, but there's 2 free days in there too, so 6 more class days. Maybe the lack of actual class days is the reason that no one feels like class is what we're here for. Or maybe I just had the wrong ideas about study abroad. Whatever the case, I want to see things calm down some. And I want to quit being frustrated and worried all the time because it's just stressing me out and I'm not enjoying myself. I feel like everyone here has a friend or two along except me and that I always end up alone, which sucks. I feel like this keeps happening more and more as I keep doing things and it really really sucks. It makes me feel like no one likes me and that I have an inability to be in a group. That's not what I want and I don't know how to fix it. Ugh.
We did go to Rouen today, and it was beautiful despite the rainy weather. I wish we were studying there like the original plan instead of in Paris because I think I would be a little more stress free. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one that feels that way since it appears that everyone else here loves the big city except for me. And I keep hearing that people think they would be drinking more if we were in Rouen, which I don't think I'd like that either. Oh well, not much I can do about it.
I need to make it through the next 2 days on about 35 euro, then not spend too much in southern France this weekend or I'm going to be broke by the time I get back to the U.S. I've already gone through about 300 euro, which is rediculous, but we've done a lot of site-seeing and this internet was damn expensive.
Alright my group should be back from dinner soon, I want to get this project done so I can go to bed. Check facebook for picture updates.