Delayed Post!

Hi Guys!

It’s been a while since I wrote. These have been a craaazy few weeks because I’ve been trying to pick classes and figure out what I’m going to do with the rest of my time here, and my schedule’s varied a lot from week to week. But I finally figured out my classes yesterday, so I should start having a regular schedule soon, and then it’ll be easier to post regularly.  I’m taking a linguistics class, a seminar about Diversity in France, an Academic Writing class, and I’m doing a directed research project translating excerpts of Les Miserables into English. It seems like it might end up being a lot of work, but the classes are all really interesting, and I’m excited.

I’ve been doing a lot of homeworking and organizing lately, but I’ve been having fun too. About a week ago it was Chinese New Year, and I went to a parade in Paris’s Chinatown with a bunch of new French friends. The parade was huge! And there were tons of dragons, look:

“Where to study” has also been a big question lately. Yesterday, on our way to a library my friend and I discovered this! It’s an orange juice machine that squeezes the juice out of the orange for you! It was so good.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve been up to lately. Oh, the answer to the subway ad last time was “Tired of talking like this?” – It was in French, but written as if the French person had a cold, the way we would write, “I’b got a stuffy dose”. 

I’ll write sooner next time!

Emily