Well the past couple days have been pretty amazing! The weather has been PHENOMENAL! High 40's almost reaching the 50's... and we have had some sun! Today is the second day that it has rained during my time which is very nice in comparison to some other exchange students.
I finally have everything straightened out with my school(s) so all my classes are scheduled and I just have to attend them which is very relieving. I also applied/signed up for a bank account, which was sort of terrifying and my French is terrible and her English wasn't very good... but I believe everything should work out fine.
So I have now had a full week of classes and it is very different from NSU or any other American college that I can think of. For example, my French Language and Civilization classes meet only 1 time per week for 2.5-3.5 hours. They are both only in French so I understand about absolutely nothing. But I have begun to actually be able to hear individual words so I am going to go right ahead and call that progress.
My "actual classes" - that I will be needing for my major - are also rather weird. Each class is only 1 week long and consists of 3 course days. These days could be any 3 days in a week. From what I have been told so far, "they don't really know" so I will be informed of what times my classes meet and what days they meet on "at the very latest the Friday before the class begins [on the next Monday]." From what I have been told generally the classes consist of 9:30-12 and then 2-5:30 for any combination of 3 days in the week and on the third day you will have a exam or some sort of test to grade you. Also they don't have ANY books. Which personally I love! I mean the fact I don't have to waste 100$ on a book I probably won't even open makes me very very happy!
All in all I am definitely beginning to love it here! I am looking forward to the days when I can actually communicate with people, without looking/feeling like a complete moron. And who knows maybe I will decide to come back in the Fall!
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