A Little Eccentric

Lisez!!

Bonjour tout le monde!
I hope all is well there…and good luck to my little Rammies on their finals. I have something resembling finals next week, but it is mostly just scraping together a few grades. My responsable here is so lazy that I must track down all my professors, some of which have given no contact information and that I haven’t seen for months, and get them to give me some type of grade and make sure they email it to her. But I don’t mind too much, because for every thing I track down and send, that is one less thing I have to worry about.
Things are totally winding down here! It is starting to feel like summer, which always makes me anxious. The park I live in is just gorgeous right now.
I have decided to stay here until June 1st. There are several reasons for this, but the best two are that Trice and me are going to go to Amsterdam and that my new friends here said we can have a party for my birthday. I mean c’mon, who gets to go out to bars for their 20th and 21st birthdays? I am getting really excited about going to Amsterdam, especially. In some ways it kind of sucks to keep extending my stay here, but one of my life dreams has been to see the Van Gogh museum. As any one who knows me can tell you, I LOVE Van Gogh and am a walking textbook on the different periods and works of his life. I have always wanted to go to this museum, and who knows when I will have another opportunity like this? I am just knocking out life goals left and right…and by the time I get home I will have been in three counties all that speak different languages. Not to mention that I am having a blast with the other Americans and Momo.
Things are continuing to go swimmingly. I am falling into a routine of staying up late and sleeping in until noon though. I follow the same schedule everyday by not really having one. I sleep late, lay in bed and play on my computer, get up and ride the bus into town and go to class, renew my bus pass, go to the post office, etc. check my email, dink around and eat pastries, go to other classes, come home in the evening, eat dinner, and go to Batiment E (E Building) to hang out with Trice, Tija, and Jess. I stay there until 1 or 2 in the morning and then get Momo to walk me home. He whines every time, but I feel much safer with him than walking alone. Funny story about him…I was on the phone with Becky and I saw Momo walking by, so I thought it would be cool for her to say hi to him. I waved him over and handed the phone to him and he was very polite and said “Hi, how are you?” in English. I heard Becky say something, and then he handed the phone back to me saying she hung up. I didn’t believe him, but sure enough, she hung up on him. Now he tells everyone that my sister hates him and hung up on him. At first I defended her, now I just agree. Seriously, who hangs up on an international phone call?
Ah, I feel like a college student again, but in a weird, foreign way.
Oh, and there are emus in Tours. Here is me with one.

posted by Molly Jo @ 4:27 AM