Going on le internet
Waiting at tram stops in le pouring rain
Trips to le Ikea
See! It's not so bad here.
The strike is over now, and the bins have finally been collected, which is a bonus! I feel like we're getting more into the routine of cooking and things, and we are slowly starting to make some friends. Last week we went to the Erasmus welcome party and met some French girls who are going to Nottingham for Erasmus next year, and tonight we're going with them to 'Café Anglophone' which is some kind of French-English weekly social. At the weekend we're going to meet up with some Romanian Erasmus students who we met on the first day. It's difficult having such a crazy timetable though because it just doesn't leave us enough time to do these fun things! The average day seems to be 8am-7pm so by the time we get back to the halls and make dinner, we just feel too tired to go out or be sociable. Plus I'm still yet to meet anyone living in my building to socialise with! It's a bit of a ghost town.
Over the weekend we did some sightseeing around Nantes (although to be honest rather than tourist hotspots a lot of our time was spent seeing the sights of various cafés with WiFi trying to get on Skype). Sadly the 'Machines d'Ile' park with the giant mechanical elephant ride was closed so we're saving that one for this weekend. We did the Natural History Museum, the castle, and 'le Lieu Unique' which is quite a cool place - Nantes is the biscuit capital of France don't you know, and le Lieu Unique is an old biscuit factory that they've converted into a centre with a bar, restaurant, cute little shops, a hammam, all sorts.
And here is me at le Lieu Unique. Sadly we did not see any biscuits there during our trip but there were lots of other biscuit-shaped items available.
I'm going to go now and make the most of my Wednesday afternoon off by having a realllly long nap :)
Marie
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