classes after 12 were cancelled due to strike. we go to morning class at 8-10. this is like a huge lecture class. 20 minutes into class, a huge group of student protesters come in and starts singing and dancing. that lasted for 15 mins, during which time we of course, could not have class. they left for 15 minutes, we continued class, then they ( Read more... )

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There's been massive strikes/riots in France. in fact, i think there's one going on right now. 1.5 million people expected througout france. strasbourg is really pretty peaceful and it didnt' really occur to me the seriousness until my friend in Aix said she hasnt been to class in 3 weeks. and alas, classes at one school here was cancelled thursday ( Read more... )

Gui visited!!! We first went to Paris and that was pretty good, though Paris is just Paris. You kind of know what to expect. Then the second week, we went down south ( Read more... )

you konw what i hate about france? the inefficiency of it all. i plan to do like 7 things in a given day and won't be able to do even one. i don't understand why, to use the photocopy, i have to have a photocopy card, for which i need a library card, for which i need a student card. why can't you jsut take my 10 cents????? seriously, i've been ( Read more... )

i hate art. seriously, who cares if mary is wearing red or if some saint is painted with blonde hair. WHO CARES!!! as you can see, i'm very bitter and worried and pissed off right now because i just went to my art history recitation or whatever and did not understand a thing. i've been to the classes before and i knew it was bad but today it just ( Read more... )

a good friend of mine is thinking about coming to strasbourg for a whole year (!!!) so she has kindly asked me a ton of questions and told me to answer them here so other people can read it. so here goes some details ( Read more... )

what we think was an anarchist rally in freiburg, germany


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bonjour. as you can see, ive found an internet cafe but its with a french keyboard so this is taking forever probably with a lot of typos. we went to germany today, gengenbach and frieburg. it was so amazing. the german counryside is so beautiful ( Read more... )

I'm in France, WOO!!! (my friend sarah here forced me to write that) yes, i got here saturday and i've only now found someone's internet to steal. Being in France has been humbling. i've had so many people laugh at me, more stares than i can count, and so not an ounce of shame left. as the rumor goes, french people really aren't very nice. but i ( Read more... )