It’s sunny! This makes me so happy, it’s actually getting warmer now which makes such a change; I went shopping yesterday in my spring jacket! Rachel and I had to go get food in Carrefour so as a spur of the moment thing I decided I wanted to go clothes shopping too, we had a nice couple of hours and stopped for a drink, I had a ‘café gourmand’ which came with three macarons, I love macarons so much!
Yesterday was the opening of Lille 3000, I can’t really figure out what it is but it happens every two years and is some sort of Europe wide celebration or Europe; except we don’t do it in Britain- of course not, we don’t seem to be a part of Europe. Essentially it involved standing along the road waiting for a parade which was short but bizarre although the fact that there was a marching band suspended from a crane like a mobile was amazing, there was even someone on a trapeze! They just appeared over the roof of a building and drifted around! There are crazy statues every where and there were flames coming from the top of Gare- Lille Flandres! There are lots of things going on in Lille from now until July but I’m finding it hard to get information.
Friday night we had a mini-party with Sana, Shusaku, Rob and Sarah; everyone contributed something so we had a little buffet with dessert and we sat around chatting in French and teaching Sana and Shusaku some English and I was trying to do some Japanese but it’s very hard. I really want to do more Japanese with Shusaku but it’s difficult to know how to go about teaching it in that kind of environment, I think books would be good but my Japanese really isn’t good enough yet. Talking of Japanese I must do some work today to catch up on what I missed on Monday, I was ill so couldn’t go, I essentially just slept Monday to Wednesday but I did go to labs Monday morning to have my chat with Gabin which as I guessed didn’t go as planned.
It didn’t go badly, it was just rather quick and he understood what I was worried about but told me there was no need and thought I was crazy to worry so much and yet I still do! Although now my project is nicely set out, I know what I am aiming for, it’s quite difficult and will take a while but hopefully I’ll get there eventually. I must keep asking questions and pushing forward.
Anyway due to my weird illness I was off work for a while and didn’t get much done this week, at least I felt better by Friday. I was really looking forward to French class this week but it really didn’t meet my expectations, I don’t think it is too easy, well I guess it is a little bit, but it’s just not challenging enough, I don’t think they’ve put a lot of effort into grouping people. They want twenty per class regardless of if there are enough people of a similar level to be able to do that! That’s just me being angry though, in general I like the people in my class and when we do our group chats it’s quite fun although the topics aren’t really inspiring. Oh I have French work to do as well! I feel so overwhelmed with work at the moment, time is running out and I just don’t know what to do! I think Rachel and Andrew are beginning to feel the pressure too, we’re in such a relaxed routine here thought that it’s hard to break out of.
Oh well, I'm sure I will manage to sort it all out... Eventually I will get myself in gear!
A plus!
