Totally in English from now on!

A small change in the content of this blog: the language. Hopefully now everyone will be able to read all the super-exciting stuff that I put down here. Loved today, by the way, the weather was just perfect to stroll around the university after the courses. I had to go and buy just one book for my French courses, but ended up strolling around the Latin quarter and its fantastic (second-hand) bookshops during 2 more hours. Ended up with 4 'new' books =) 

The week was quite calm, but the university work is beginning to pile up on my desk here. I'm not sure yet how the learning-process will go here, with my lecture notes in French (talking the language is one thing, taking notes in it, another) especially as there are no books to back up the powerpoint-presentations. Luckily everyone is really helpful around here!

Monday, statistics (still not sure whether the way they teach it here, is really useful in a master program) and lecture about climate-models at the ENS-institute of Paris. That's another nice thing about living in Paris: a lot of opportunity to go to extra lectures. This lecture was perhaps not the most exciting of all lectures, but still worth it. And those seats were really good. And how to forget that conversation with Dimitri, Victor and Sara (some details are perhaps worth forgetting) afterwards? Ended the evening on Place Jussieu with a durum and fries. 

Tuesday, 'Grandes Questions Environnementales', again a lecture on climate change. "Worked" in the afternoon to search some articles for the project, first French lesson in the evening. We're going to do grammar after all, so that's good news! This session was kind of boring and the tasks we have to do seem a bit stupid (write a horoscope, imagine a new object based on something you saw in the street), but also a sheet full of verbs. To forget the course Sjoerd and I went to the 'Mayflower' to get a Karmeliet and some food. And it was actually after that, on the RER back home, that I had my best work-moment of the day.

On Wednesday, another whole day at uni with some moments of work and more moments of fun. Thursday was an easy day, only courses in the afternoon and a nice birthday-drink for Candice afterwards

On a less positive note: will probably have to leave my room here in the middle/end November, because I cannot get onto the contract of the house (don't ask, already spent too much time on that, primary cause=****landlord). So around that time I'll start a new room-hunt in Paris.

And that's about it for this week!  I still haven't developed mad photographic skills, again almost no pictures, but this one is from Thursday: