I apologize for my lack of blogging, I have been so insanely busy these last few days I literally haven't had a chance between orientation, my family, and sleeping.
Monday I started my orientation here in Nantes. For the last three days I've sat through meetings and classes about classes, verb tenses, conversation, proper French etiquette, all sorts of things that leave me completely drained by the end of the day. I get home, and my host mom is cooking dinner. Typically I get about fifteen, twenty minutes to check my email, then at about 8:00 every night we eat dinner. Sometimes my dad is there, sometimes he comes late, and last night and tonight Charlotte, my host sister, was home from school. We sit, sometimes for almost two hours and eat in courses. Its really nice and definitely stretches my French skills, especially because Charlotte talks as fast in French as I talk in English.....which is really really fast if you don't speak the language fluently.
Most nights when we're finished picking up from dinner I go back to my room, get on my computer, do my homework. It's a pretty exciting life I lead. The big stresses this week have been bus passes (which now are almost taken care of) and getting classes arranged. I think right now I'm looking at taking classes at the IES Center (my program) as well as at the University of Nantes. Right now, we don't have a class list for the University, but I'm hoping I can take at least one history class at the University, as killer as that would be. How awesome would it be to take an American history class while I'm here?
Here are the classes I'm looking at for IES:
1. Advanced French Language and Composition
2. Construction of the European Union from 1945 to the present
3. The Palestinian Question from 1945 to Today
4. France and the Atlantic World (16th-18th Centuries)
Anyway, if I could take those four and then just one history class at IES, then I'd have a free class sometime when I get home, if I want. We'll see!
Oh, and if anybody wants to send me letters or postcards, here's my address!
Jenna Peterson
c/o IES Nantes
7, rue des cadeniers
44000 Nantes, France
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