Time for another interesting-observations-about-france entry. Take the most serious, perfectionnistic, crazy-intense student you know in the States. Multiply that by ten.
Said student won't even hold a candle to the average french student!
It's always amusing for me to sit in a class at the fac...I'm sitting there scrambling to follow anything, get anything on the paper to remember later what the professor said. I'm thinking only of writing frantically key words and names and dates (ps, the dates are hard. I hate hearing numbers in french, I get so caught up in trying to translate the numbers that I miss the importance of the date!). It's entertaining to see my notes after said courses- the grammar is horrible, but that's beside the point. They're scattered and in no particular logical sequence - just whatever concepts and words I managed to understand.
Now lets look at the average french students. Said students will probably have in front of them a pencil case full of pens and pencils. Me, I'm used to having my one blue pen and using it for everything I write. These french students have minimum two different colored pens, but they usually average about 4 colors. Not only do they use all these different colored pens to properly categorize and organize their notes, but they also use White-Out. To take NOTES! I have actually seen these students whip out their White-Out pen, fix something on their papers and carry on without missing a beat! The White-Out isn't even the worst of it, though. They all have RULERS! because of course, heaven forbid that the line you draw under the title of your notes be even the slightest bit crooked!
...they're absolutely insane =D
this weekend is the Chateaux de la Loire trip...I can't wait to see Chenonceau in person! and then the weekend after that I get to go to Paris to see my Alex and my Meghan!!! Granted, I'll get there assuming that the grève de SNCF (SNCF (train) strike) announced for next thursday in Nantes doesn't interfere...Mme de Pous, my grammar professor, promised to keep us updated.
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oh dear sounds like a country full of young over acheivers.... i don't think i'd fit in there at all. or i'd have a panic attack. good to see that you find it amusing! actually i prolly would too. hope you can get to Paris next weekend without too much trouble!
Hah, hah... notes... what are those? I rarely take them. That's way too intense for me. I point lights and make them look pretty- that's about it.
Um, don't you use White-Out? I do all the time - the Smithsonian wants to frame my notes because they are so beautiful.
Yeah, that is really weird.
And the strike - NOT happy! My school is almost 4 miles from me, and my class is at 9 am! And then how am I supposed to get to my internship and then back for my next class?? Maybe they'll cancel class because we're American and can't do it...but I doubt it.
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