Disco Pub Night...

Monday was Disco Pub night. We didn't have our French Culture class on Monday, just regular French language in the afternoon. The Pub night started at 10 & it went until 3am. I didn't stay that long though. It was all of the international students in the SELF program at school. It was in a tiny club. It was very hot & sweaty but it was fun. It was so hot inside many people were going outside to get air. They were also drunk & loud. It was Monday night & there are people who live above the bar. They were not so happy about all of the loud drunk students in the street & they started throwing buckets of water out the window. People were NOT happy. Luckily I wasn't one of them. Something good came out of Disco Pub night.... I was talking to the woman who is in charge of the program & she told me that because of all of the problems that I had when I got here that she would be able to refund me my first month's rent! That's great news. I think that things are finally turning in the right direction.

I tried to do a load of laundry before I went to class yesterday. Tried – is the keyword. I put my clothes in, set the temperature, put the soap in and turned it on. 30 minutes later I went back to check on it & it said it was finished. I thought – Sweet! That was fast. I wanted to get my stuff out & hang it up before I went to class. Well I tried to open the door but it was still locked & I looked in the window & my clothes were still dry. I was like what the hell? I know I did all of the steps. Well I didn’t know that you had to turn the water on manually. Ha! After I did that – it started working. Obviously my clothes weren’t done before I had to go to school. I felt really bad leaving them in the only washer all day but that’s what I did. When I got home tonight they were in a bag on top of the washer. There is no dryer so I have to hang everything on a drying rack. Now that means I am going to have to iron all of my clothes before I wear them. What a pain in the ass! Whatever – it’s just one of many things I guess I have no choice but to get used to.

Well our French Culture class was cancelled yesterday too - because of the party. I am not complaining. Then we had a French Test yesterday afternoon. very easy. Other than that = not too much else going on. I wandered around Bellecour yesterday. I was trying to find the 2 Euro store. Ith's the closest thing to the dollar store. Well after about 30 minutes of walking we found it. It turned out to be worse thatn the dollar store. It was all junk - but I bought some tupperware to keep the fruit I am going to buy at the farmer's market this weekend.