"Vous avez une carte de fidélité?"

Everything continues to be a rollercoaster. Yesterday was my first proper day in uni, there were a lot of course meetings and information sessions, and I feel none the wiser for having attended any of them! I turned up at 9 only to realise I'd turned up to the meeting for the wrong set of modules, so I had a few hours to kill before my real meetings started at 1. I took a campus tour, of which I understood little, and then realised that my phone won't connect to the wifi on campus, which is very bad news! Went for lunch with a French girl who was also quite hard to understand, then had meetings straight from 1 until 4:30 in some very stuffy lecture theatres. And the student card machine is broken so I can't get a card, which means I can't sign up for any classes anyway. I can now see why the French need so much wine to get through life.

Thankfully managed to get in contact with another Erasmus student called Helen, who is going to Barbara's church on Sunday. So I got a welcome break from all the French and got to speak English for an hour or so. And when Helen's German next door neighbour joined us, we could all speak our nice, slow version of French which is much easier to understand!

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Mercifully, I had today off uni! So I took the opportunity to be as productive as possible, and went into town to open a bank account! Not nearly as scary as it sounds, they all speak very clearly in the bank. Then I went exploring for a bit in the shopping centre, which is much bigger than I thought!

After a successful shopping trip I met Helen again and we went back to Barbara's, then straight out to the lake for a much needed swim.

It's so beautiful there, and there's even a little waterfall where you can catch crayfish :)

Barbara's friend Felicity joined us for a meal and a very enjoyable film after, all in French of course! I'm glad to have had a relaxing evening, it's back to uni tomorrow, and then it will be time to move house. 

Tout bouge encore.

Sarah 

xx