I can’t believe that I’ve been in France for a week now. Actually, I can because the first few days were slow creepin’ like an ‘84 Caddy rolling through Compton. Not having internet in our residence is brutal, but the rumour is that we be online as of 1 October. 19 more days!! For now, I am broadcasting live from Computer Lab 19 in the Robert Schuman University Batiment L’Ecole Management Strasbourg. Woof. These French keyboards are weird. They aren’t ‘QWERTY’ they are ‘AZERTY’ and you have to press shift for a period. So annoying, kids.

Classes started this week and I am taking 11. A plethora of business classes, a couple about European Integration and 2 French classes. For one class, I take the final next week and one class doesn’t start until Novembre. It is a different kind of ‘downtime’ from Antwerp, for sure but it’s all good.

I’ve met some really cool people here too: a guy named Miks from Latvia, Yasmeen, Andrea, and Candace. They are all wonderful and different in so many ways, I love the diversity of the four of us all spending time together. Yasmeen, Andrea and I (and maybe Candace) are presently in the infancy stages of planning a trip to MOROCCO, which would just be amazing and hopefully the act of getting to Africa will not be financially prohibiting but, if you really, really want to do something then you’ll find a way.

Until the next time,

Bisous!