First Official Day of Classes?

          So the day has finally arrived...the reason why I have come to France in the first place. SCHOOL!!!! Life up to this point in France has just been trying to adjust and meeting a lot of great new people :) But now the work starts! It's been a crazy week trying to pick and choose which classes to take, and it's definitely more of an adventure trying to navigate myself around this huge school with tons of people and randomly labeled classrooms....Anyways, my schedule will be (most likely) as follows: DEFI (which is my French extensive course), Argumentation (Is a License 3--aka Senior year--level debate class, which is taught in English. I'm taking it because they love Anglophones), Traduction (Which consists of 2 different classes: Thème and Version. It is a translation course of taking French texts and translating them into English), Film Studies (pretty much self explanatory...), Great Britain Culture and Civilization, Tandem (which is where I will have a partner who is French speaking and we will speak in English and French to each other in order to practice and become mildly fluent), and 19th century novels with a focus on the works of Jules Vern (taught in French).
           My first class today was my DEFI class, which I have been taking for over 2 weeks now...and am still convinced my teacher dislikes me for some unknown reason. Whatever. Anyways, after frantically grabbing a sandwich from Brian in the Ulysse Cafe, Lauren and I trekked around Building B to find our Argumentation class. Talk about confusing. We finally made it to our room with time to spare, and our teacher comes to the door and looks at the two of us and says, "You aren't French, are you?" And we were like, "Nope! American and Canadian" And our teacher was like, "Be prepared to speak a lot." Greeeeat. So the classroom was filled with French students, and the teacher, Mme Ullmo starts speaking to us in English :) It was wonderful. Ahahahaha. She pointed out to the class that Lauren and I are Anglophones and made us come up with topics to debate...And then she wanted to talk about Obama...hahahah! So next week, I am with a group and we have to listen to an American radio show and come up with a presentation about it. I'm really kind of excited to have an easy class, but I feel like I can really help the French students with English, and vise versa. So I'm definitely looking forward to this :) It's about time school started again!
          Today is Colleen's 20th birthday so we're all going out to a potato place for dinner! I'm so excited!! i am definitely adjusting to living here and am almost starting to call it home. I definitely am in need of a care package from the USA! Hahaha. And a Bellarmine course catalogue? ;) I'm having a good week, and it's only Monday...this is a good sign ;)