My second week in Nantes has been similar to Freshers...but with more confusion and even more long European names to remember. The only easy ones are the Spanish - Fernando, Antonio, Alejandro, Roberto...you get the picture. If in doubt, add an O and you're o-k.
A few days ago there was the erasmus welcome party, which you'd have thought would be a small-ish party for only the poor new erasmus students, but nooo. Basically all of nantes university french students gatecrash and the party is one big piss-up outside, ending at 2am. I then headed off with my new Spanish mates to a very cheesy club in town called Texmex where guys generally dance on the stage and if you're drunk enough you'll probably end up doing salsa..or at least attempting and failing. I've now learnt, after being asked for de feu (lighter) many times and wondering why, when the french smoke so much, that they casually forget to take a lighter out with them...that they do this merely to start a conversation and to pick up girls. Ze sneaky francais!
I now pretty much cycle everywhere and have turned into a sterotypical french (wannabe) with a baguette in me basket (though no one here wears stripy tops or carries strings of onions with them.) After a night out a drunken cycle ride home is common amongst the french and i've had some pretty amusing drunken adventures home, apart from when you have to cycle up hill on a three-gear bike and then you mainly want to die.
University here is pretty similar to England apart from a few parts..long 3 hour lectures, the university tramp that lives in my languages building next to the coffee machine, getting free cigarettes off the students, I still find it amusing that none of the lecturers or anyone has asked him to leave. I guess he's not doing any harm, so why the hell shouldn't we have a french tramp at our uni? University food here is generally a lot better than England, fresh baguettes not packaged shitty ones, starter, main and desert at the university restaurants all round town for 3 euros, and of course...the famous boulangeries which I'm definitely gonna miss in England! Uni on Monday..an 8.30 start for a Masters course..how the hell am I allowed to study that!? Not complaining though..
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