This past school week made me even more excited for my actual classes to begin. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday many of my friends had an intensive negotiation skills workshop from 9-5 each day, which I did not take. This gave me a lot of free time at the beginning of the week! Luckily, I had the international marketing group project to work on. My group got in touch with me not long after my last blog post, so we met up on Monday to divide the tasks and begin to create a plan. This meeting was followed by several more throughout the week. Because I am the only native English speaker in the group, I lucked out with the task of editing and compiling the sections of the paper, something I was happy to do. Our paper turned out well and we were able to complete it on time. In class on Friday we sat through THREE hours of group presentations and we still have to present in class this week. The length of the class and having to sit through one group after another really made me miss those hour and fifteen minute long classes at UofL, I used to think those were torture to sit through!
The French students I was working with were all amazed by the fact that I'm a sorority back home. They asked me if my life is just like the TV show "Greek" and told me how jealous they are that I'm living the "American college dream". That is the one odd thing about schools in Europe, they are only focused on academics, they have some student organizations, but nothing like an American university. That is the one thing I miss the most about Louisville, how busy everyone is with everything, not just schoolwork. At any given moment there is a RSO meeting, an intramural game, or a tailgate to attend.
I did book two trips with all my free time this week! So mark your calendars and don't say I didn't warn you, I will be out of the country on the following dates...
On September 24th, Lauren, Caitlin, Ken and I will be heading to London for the weekend. It's Lauren's birthday and we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate. It'll be a quick trip, just from Friday morning to Sunday evening, but I am super excited. I've always wanted to go to London and it'll be a nice change of pace to be in an English speaking country. We are already planning all of the places we want to visit while we're there.
On September 30th, I am heading to Spain after class. I'll meet up with Chris when I arrive and then on Friday morning we are heading to Lagos, Portugal on an excursion with some of his friends from Spain. It's supposed to be gorgeous there, and I'm looking forward to the beach weather, it has felt like fall here since I arrived! We will be in Lagos until Sunday night and then I head back to Paris on Monday. I'm really excited for the beach trip and to see Chris.
Then, on the weekend of October 15th, Chris is coming to visit me in Paris for our 1 year anniversary. Needless to say, it is going to be a busy/fun 4 weeks consisting of:
Sept. 24-25 London
Sept. 30-Oct 4 Spain/Portugal
Oct 8-12 Uncle Mike, Nikki and Taylor here!
Oct 15-17 Chris here
There is so much to look forward to, I can't wait! I'm also super excited to actually start going to school this week. If the weeks were going by fast when I wasn't busy, I can only imagine how quickly they'll go by once I throw school into the mix.
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