First Day in a French Classroom

          Today was certainly one to remember. So I met Rosalind, Colleen, and Sarah down in the Triolo lobby so that we could head over to Lille III together for the first session of our 4-hour a day, 5 day a week intensive French course. We arrived at school just in time to check out where we were supposed to have our class. Colleen and I were lucky to have the same class together, but we didn't sit next to each other. Our teacher came in and introduced herself, her name is Martine, and everything was in very rapid French. I ended up sitting by a girl named Solina and she is from Romania. We got to know each other, and worked on some exercises in grammar and listening comprehension. It was definitely difficult, but nothing I couldn't handle. I think it's just weird actually having a class completely conducted in French with absolutely no English spoken. I also met this other guy, whose name is Jeremiah and is from the University of Nebraska, and he was one of the other Americans whom I had yet to meet. He was really nice and definitely full of energy!
          Our class went from 9am to 1pm, with a 20  minute break, and then we had a meeting regarding sports at Lille III. Apparently we can get credit for just going :) Anyways, for some reason, most of the English speaking people sat around each other, so I got to meet several people from England. We also then met Lauren, the other ISEP student from Canada, and she was really nice and just as confused as the rest of us. So, my fellow Americans, Lauren, and several British girls decided to walk to L'Etudiant to get lunch before the ISEP people had our meeting with Isabelle (she's in charge of us). So we sat around this table outside of this off the wall little cafe and had an awesome time! We talked to the English girls about different things and I was curious as to what they were taught about when the American Revolution was brought up in their history class...they said it didn't. Hahah!!! After lunch, the 7 ISEP students (including myself) went to meet up with Marine to go over our French Social Security stuff, our banking info, and registration. Isabelle, the ISEP coordinator for Lille III also eased our worries. Apparently we have absolutely free range of the courses that we want to take at Lille. And we can tell the professors that we are from ISEP and they will give us a take home paper to do instead of the in-class test :D yay. So she basically made our lives a million times easier.
           After a super duper long day of stress and business, we all decided to head to the centre commercial for dinner. Sarah and I went to Pizza Pai and had spaghetti :D Jeremiah and Lauren went to Auchan, but I was in no mood to take that on tonight. Yuck. After walking back to Triolo, we all decided that it would be best to just take the night easy. And now my next door neighbor is listening to Justin Bieber. I guess there are Beliebers in France too... :)