the french ways of class

so the day started and is continuing on it's craziness. It started with a friend crashing in my room over night. Then I had class scheduled at 1.45pm so at ten till 1 Laine (also in the class) and I go to look up where our class is. around noon we ask for help since we can't fine which group we are in which tells us which classroom. We also discover that there is a "mistake" on the board saying our class is at 12.45 not 1.45pm. So we decide just to try and find our classroom (the secretary didn't have our names or groups since we are international students) at around 1:30 we find the classroom and there is a class going that looks like ours. Laine decides to ask if that is our class.

It was. Merde

So we (the only 2 international students in the class) arrive almost an hour late to our first class ever.

At the break we approach the professor and explain that in the international info the class is to start at 1.45 and that we were SO sorry to be late. She luckily said it was no big deal we hadn't really missed anything.

After that we have a 15 min break to pee etc. so we walk across this hallway/bridge thing full of french students smoking, we stuck out like a sore thumb!

when laine returned from the bathroom a girl approached us and asked the time in french (no thanks to the language intensive we didn't know how to answer). Then she asks in english and asks where we were from.

We tell her california, the school calpoly. Turns out she made friends with a girl from calpoly last year and loved us. She offered to introduce us to french students and invite us to hang out. She gave me her number to call at a later point in time. Her name was Camille.

Class went well luckily and we have since figured out the french system a litlle better.

for example the french post you classes on bullitin boards that tell you the professor, time and room to attend that week. Some classes your randomly have weeks off. The french are crazy their system is chaos and we were supremely happy to have a professor that was so chill about us being late and just lain ridiculous.

The end... for now, I still have a lot of day left