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Week of 21/01/2013
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Reaching the date (DD / MM / YYYY):
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Janvierundi 21/1
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Tuesday 22/1
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Wednesday 23/1
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Thursday 24/1
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Friday 25/1
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Saturday 26/1
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Sunday 27/1
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This week was the start of classes at Sciences Po. Try as I might I didn't get any of my classes switched so I'm stuck with the above schedule Over all pretty doable except for Labor Econ, which I'm pretty sure is already sucking my soul out of my body. I won't take you through all of my classes, but will give you highlights. My classes on Monday, which is a two part deal, discussion and lecture, is taught by three Italian men. So far I already have 4 classes cancelled for this class!!!! My French teacher is by far my favorite teacher. She rocks some bright blue 1 inch sole Doc Martins, has crazy curly hair, and makes us do silly faces when we pronounce things. For an 8 am I appreciate her upbeat attitude and kindness for my lack of language skills. My roommate Lena and I are both in the Theories of International Relations course, but she's taking the French version. I'm interested to see if there will be much of a difference. This guy seems cool and he openly calls himself a "soft grader". But my Entrepreneurial class will take 1st place for being the easiest. We will only have one test which will be over one reading and it's multiple choice! We can earn extra points by talking in class, awesome! French school is way different than American school. Each course meets once a week (except French) but for two hours. So over all we only meet 12 times, then there is a month for finals to take place, which I only have one of! Some teachers give breaks in class others don't, but you can only miss two classes per course or you will be deferred from the course. K now on to the craziness of my week, or should I say Thursday......
Thursday: PARIS FASHION WEEK!!!!
After French class my friend Wade and I decided to go try to sneak into a show or at least soak up the atmosphere of fabulous-ness of Haute Couture week! We ended up at the Zuhair Murad Haute Couture show at the Westin Hotel. We started outside the hotel and kinda away from the main entry, we were sure if legit photographers would come or not, but they didn't! So once people started showing up we got out into the street to snap shots of Paris's finest. This was so much fun, some people would stop to pose and others wouldn't. We wound up making friends with some other students and decided to go into the hotel to see if we could sneak in! Well we didn't get into the show, but we did make our way into the runway room after everyone left. We snatched up some invites and the program for the show. We tried to wait around for the designer to come out, but he never did :[ But we did get to take pictures of this famous French Actress. I was floating on cloud 9 after we left the Westin, I couldn't stop smiling! I felt so accomplished. But before I knew it I had entered the fiery pits of the Paris Metro Police, aka Stupid People, according to my landlady. I got off the metro and was walking down the stairs to head to my flat, when I got stopped by the devil man. I got out my Navigo pass, which is a monthly pass that allows you ride the metro as much as you'd like. I hand him my pass he scans it and I get the green light, but responds with "oh this is no good". So I say why?, I bought this 2 weeks ago with in my 1st hour of being in Pairs. Turns out YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PICTURE ID on your Navigo. So I tell him, I'm sorry I didn't know that, no one told me when I bought it. Long story short he threatens to take me to the police, because I said I didn't have money to pay the fine/ I'm not paying the fine because that's my pass. After a good 20 minutes of laughing at me, loads of head shaking, and silencing of the other police officers when they started to answer my questions, I get to walk away with a slip for my 45 euro fine. I then walk home crying and freaked out, but end up being comforted by my lovely landlady, who will take me to the police station to deal with the fine. I was afraid to take the metro to get my picture taken, so I walked to get my picture taken. Now I avoid metro police as much as possible, and have major hate for this rude french man. Learned my lesson and now have 10 pictures of my face for future Navigos!Today:
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