1. Sleeping
without a pillow is tough.
2. I have
to keep thinking about K.’s bonmot “Our rooms look just like prison cells in Holland, but we don’t have
a TV.”
3. I’m
sleeeepyyyy…
Anyway,
today was the morning with a big M at the beginning. M for Monstrous, Murderous
and Mortifying. The topic was cardiovascular medicine and that’s something I’ve
never ever encountered. OK, I have, but precisely because of the short meeting,
I decided to ditch the exam and therefore learnt nothing. So I felt like Alice in Wonderland, only
not curiouser and curiouser but stupider and stupider.
A creepy bathroom shot...
We got a
fish again for lunch, but this time it was a bit less fishy. Fried fish is
almost as good as raw or grilled one, and there was some really salty, spicy
sauce with it, so you couldn’t really taste the fish much. I kinda skipped the
broccoli and blackened beans. The salads are no miracle, but I managed to
snatch a really pretty tarte for my dessert and that was pretty tasty.
Our
afternoon lessons was supposed to be biostatistics, but I think that was a bit
of a misunderstanding. At my uni, we have “computational technique” (excel,
databases) and then we have “biostatistics” (ANOVA, t-test, zero hypothesis
stuff etc.). I took the first, didn’t take the latter. So when they asked who
had experience with biostatistics, I didn’t raise my hand as I thought I
didn’t. But then it turned out we were doing pretty basic excel stuff, which
was pretty boring for me.
Anyway, we
finished at around 5 p.m., which meant we had some time to do shopping. B. and
me went to the center (that’s where all the missing people were - since the
outskirts were always so empty) and wandered around the main shopping street.
We managed to find some pretty cool shops. First was a
paper&crafts&books&magazines store, where they had really cute
school supplies on sale. If you want to turn green with envy: I got the folder
for only 3 E, the pens for 2,5 E, the coasters for 0,50 E, the journal for 4 E.
I actually thought the coasters would be a cute giveaway item. Then I got some
magazines that weren’t that cheap, unfortunately.
Our next
stop was Claire’s. At the first look, I thought I’d buy everything. At the
second, I thought I wasn’t gonna buy anything (since the items weren’t my
style/that great/that cheap). And on the third, I found quite a lot of
reasonable things. Both cosmetic bags were for 4 E, the bracelet was 4, the
blush was super cute and only 2 E, I paid 1 E for the nail files and 5 E for
the glasses case (it’s sooo sweet! I already threw away my old one, since it
was dirty and broken).
And the
last shop where I bought something was Min, we only managed to pay shortly
before they closed for the night. They had beautiful, himegyaru-esque pieces,
but only from size 38 up. The only thing that I estimated might fit me (an XS
cutsew) was fortunately also only 4 E, lucky me! And I grabbed a cute headbow
for 2 E as well.
Then we
hurried back to out prison dorms as we were supposed to go to the Festival
d’Anjou soon and a bus was picking us up in front of the student residence.
Somehow the tram dematerialized and rematerialized again at a stop that was way
too far, we simply didn’t go though the one we were supposed to get off. I
really suspect that the public transport in Angers is something like that weird Harry Potter
bus. Arrows point to stops at the other end of the city, tram don’t have to use
the rails etc. But we made it in time to not only toss our bags in a corner and
grab some quick dinner, but also to get changed. If anyone says scientists look
horrible, I’ll punch him. I swear we were the prettiest/handsomest/most dolled
up pack in the whole Maine-et-Loire region. Especially the girls from Australia looked like escapees from Australia’s
Next Top Model. When we got there, we immediately let out the fact we were a
bunch of tourists, not only because wed strut around the castle in sky-high
heels, in chiffon miniskirts and in the boys’ case, shirts and blazers, while
the domestic French wore an outfit that could even stand the Alps’ weather and
carrying blankets, but also because we immediately started taking pictures like
crazy. It was just so beautiful! The play we went to see was Romeo and Juliet.
No, I’m not a retard, it was an avant-garde adaptation. Or, actually a rather
traditional one. To follow the Elizabethan theater rules, all roles were played
by men. Then again, they didn’t really dress Juliet as a woman, so it was a gay
version of the story. It was supposedly really funny, but I only understood
like 1/10 of all the jokes. Nevertheless, the dancing and music and acting were
splendid, so was the setting. It was really great, if it wasn’t so could, I
could have stayed till morning. But actually as soon as we climbed inside the
bus, we were about to fall asleep.
Yours truly
Vita
Haha I really don't see why you're complaining over your room. Yesterday I started to look for a flat in Riga (Latvia) and I think I'm gonna end up with a depression just looking for one - see an example here http://www.dzivoklis.lv/en/view/420852 it's so sick! It will take me a long way before I find something usable :O
ReplyDeleteOMG, that's seriously scary! I really hope you'll be able to find something decent...
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