August 29th and 30th

Sunday, August 29, 2010 I spent pretty much the entire day in my room alone watching tv online and searching for apartments to rent. Lame… I know… but I wanted to finally chill out before classes started on Monday.

Monday, August 30^th was the first day of our two week language intensive program before classes officially start.  I, like a failure, tested into the first group.  It was pretty good review and class was only from 8:30am-12:30pm with a 20 minute break somewhere in there.  After class we went to one of the Cafes on campus that finally opened and got the token ham and cheese sandwich… (jambon et fromage tous les jours!)

That night, some of us got Pizza at an Italian restaurant in the center of town.  But apparently during my Sunday of solitude, I missed out on tons of craziness.  On Saturday night, a girl named Larissa, on her way back to her, saw some random naked guy masturbating in one of the communal kitchens in the dorms.  So everyone was now making a big deal about locking the front door to our dorms so that creepers like that couldn’t get in.  Also, the next day, this random old guy was trying to get into our dorm building to meet up with a friend.  The only people here in this building are from California so that was total BS.  Larissa wouldn’t let him in, but he got in when someone else was entering the building.  Larissa called the program coordinator who came with the security guard and escorted the man out of the building.  Later on, he came back and was yelling at her about having him escorted away and he kept telling her that he “knew who she was”.  So this poor girl Larissa has been threatened and is just seriously not having the best luck here in the dorms.