First day of classes!

Monday January 19, 2009

Today was the first day of classes. My schedule is as follows:
M-- philosophy 8:45-12:30
T-- philosophy 1:45-5:15
W-- theology 1:45-5:15
TH-- theology 8:45-12:30

I had Philosophy today-- Metaphysics to be exact. That title scared me a little, especially since i didn't do so well last semester in Philosophy. I woke up today at 7 and took a shower. After my shower i got ready and went downstairs for breakfast. Breakfast is the same everyday... nothing big at all. You can either have tea, coffee, or hot chocolate, and grab a piece of bread when you get your food. I had hot chocolate today. its weird-they had bowls out for the coffee and stuff so we drank it out of bowls... it must be the french thing to do! Anyways when we all sat down at the tables, they have croissants out with different jams you can put on it. I think that bread just goes with every meal no matter what. So we ate breakfast and went up to the first floor for class. So many people signed up for metaphysics class that they had to split it up into two. Both classes are at the same time. Unfortunately our group is split in half into each class. But thankfully i wasn't the only one in one of the classes!

In metaphysics we have a professor from Germany. She seems really nice, but kind of unsure of her teaching. She takes a long time to get out what she wants to say! In this class we are learning about the philosophers In the class we picked project topics. I'm in a group with Kim and Kelly-- two of the girls in our little group lol. Our project isn't until the end of the 5 weeks so we don't have to worry too much about it. But we are going to try to get it done earlier. we get two breaks during the class.. honestly it's not enough! ha It feels like its going to be a long semester with this class because it takes her so long to talk and she has a heavy accent. But hopefully we get through it and i get a good grade.

After we got ready we went and walked around for a little bit and got a baguette sandwich for lunch while walking around. I had ham and cheese.. it was good! We went into this store down the street- called Zara. It was a cute store with really cute stuff! We went to the front where all the dresses were and looked through them. Then we saw a huge rack in the back where shirts were starting from 3.95 euro. We like bolted back to those racks! I found a lot of cute stuff, but nothing that I wanted to buy.
So we left the store, after Brittany bought a couple shirts, and on our way back Steph and I went into a different store. Almost every store in Paris says "soldes" which we are guessing means "SALE", but this store said, "-50 to -70" meaning that percentage off.. so we thought it was a good store. And it def was! Immediately upon entering i fell in love with this pinkish-rose colored jacket that buttons up. It was too good to resist so I decided to buy it! It was only 20 euro! Its a wicked good price! Everyone loved it. Steph said the jacket screams "Julia" hah.

After we got back, we went back to our rooms, finished my sandwich, read for Philosophy, and hung around for a bit until dinner. For dinner we had some kind of beef.. I'm not sure what it was, and veggies and rice. It was pretty good.

At night we printed out readings, did some homework and hung around in our rooms until it was time for bed.