Yesterday, I didn't have class, but I still went to school and did some shopping at the nearby mall, met up with a few other students for lunch at the school cafeteria and then 4 of us even navigated the French bus system to find our way to Ikea which was 2 towns over, it was quite the successful day... until I got back to the dorm.
When I walked in I met my roommate who is from Morocco and speaks a little English but mostly French, she is not in the international program like I am, despite the language barrier she seems to be an extremely nice girl. And by the end of the night I was grateful for her French.
Apparently my ultimate goal in life right now is to win the Turkey of the Year Award from abroad, I'm sure my mom has already told most of you about me backing into the entertainment center in our driveway, causing it to collapse and the guy who works for the village coming down the block to help us clean it up since it was literally in a million pieces. If she hasn't told you, just ask her, I'm sure she loves to tell the story, considering she STILL loves to tell the lamppost story. Anyways, on Monday night I decided I wanted to lay in bed and watch tv on my computer while waiting for my parents to get home from work so we could skype. Problem is that when I went to the store to buy my ethernet cord when I got here they only had ones there are 2m long, so needless to say, it doesn't reach all the way over to my bed. I had the great idea to just scoot my bed over so that the cord would reach. Well, while attempting to do so I accidently rammed my bed into my charger, which was plugged into the wall, the adapter cracked, sparked, and then the power on my ENTIRE floor went out, oops. So my roommate called security, who spoke only French (this is where I lucked out that she speaks it as well, the story could have been even more interesting if we had to rely on my French to get the power back on) to come fix the power. The security guy was able to fix the lights and I plugged in my charger I thought I had fixed and it happened again! (There is a reason I'm a business student and not an engineer or anything technical) Luckily security hadn't left yet and even though I'm pretty sure he and my roommate were making fun of me in French, he fixed the power and my charger! It was quite the night, but at least I was able to lay in bed while I Skyped my parents and emailed Chris to find out all about his trip and first day in Spain...
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