BADMINTON! FUNNY.
I have a lot to do the coming days. FX and I still need to do the report (we didn't do anything sensible yesterday) and we also have the multidiciplinary project hanging over our shoulders.
Today we went to CNES (Centre nationale des Etudes Spatiale) to visit our project tutor. The CNES center here in Toulouse is the largest CNES centre with around 2000 eployees and a lot of security (it's a huge place). Normally, it's not a problem to be Norwegian in Europe - we have pretty much signed every agreement there is with the EU, except the membership one. But at CNES it's different. Norway is not a among the partners of CNES, therefore my tutor had to pick me up at the entrance - and return me when we were done. Funny :)
Yesterday, on the metro home on the metro, Nina, Geir and I discussed the differences between Danish, Icelandic and Norwegian. Then in the escalator some French guy asks us if we have two minutes. Sure! And we end up correcting his English assignment outside the metro. Glad we could help! Funny!
Now I'm gonna continue studying Optoelectronics for my exam on Monday. In an hour it's badminton time! Wish me luck!
THE SATURDAY INCIDENT
But one shouldn't hit oneself and therefore I'm getting a good nights sleep (even though it's Boom night) to be prepared for a long days work tomorrow.
Late for school!
My exam is in the course "Molécule au matériau" (From molecules to materials). During the 40 minutes I worked this afternoon I found a nice chemsitry book explaining some of the (countless) topics I don't yet understand. Then I found out I couldn't borrow it because I'm suspended from the school library because of a lately delivered book last week. Bah. Enough work.
This week has been a hard week, one thing is that I've had a lot to do but the main thing is the trouble we've had with INSA because of a party incident last Saturday. Santiago, Joao and I had a meeting Tuesday with the head of the guards and the responsible for International Relations at INSA and now Joao and Santiago may risk to get kicked out from their residence, R1. I won't get kicked out because I live in R5 - silly/lucky.
The Holy Grail of Beer - the Saturday Incident Mascot
For those of you who don't know the situation, the party on Saturday was no worse than any other party. At 23h20 the guard kicked us out from the R1 common kitchen and took the cards from three of us (he asked for everyone's cards but three of us gave them to him). We therefore got called in for a meeting. During the meeting we were told that they want to try to kick out J. and S. because the general unhappiness with people making noise and not cleaning up after their preparties in R1. The head of the guards wanted to make an example of us to show they're not kidding.
To make one thing clear, we cleaned up after ourselves! (See my previous post). The fact that it was S. and J. who gave the guard their cards and that they live in R1 is just random. In my opinion they could just as well have said:
"We're going to kick someone out because of too much noise from preparties. The choice landed on room 115 and 526. Sorry".
We have tried to make BDE (Bureau des Etudiants) speak our case, but we still have to wait until next week before we get an answer. I really hope no one will get thrown out of R1!
And now laides and gentlemenn - something completely different!
The Christmas decoration in the uppermost picture is taken from the restaurant at school. I have no words. What do you think?
I just came home from a superb dinner with 13 other Erasmus students (Not everyone was Erasmus, but I call everyone Erasmus). The restaurant is called La faim des haricots and one menu option is to select between 1 to 5 different types of food and serve yourself as much as you want. The atmosphere was great and we chose the 3 different types for only 12€!
Now I'm tired and I'm going to bed. I don't have energy to go to one of the big events of the year (Soirée Boom). Dommage, but life is hard :)
Today I received some new t-shirts from Threadless - always a great bonus to see the T-shirts in real life. Once again I didn't get disappointed! Wee!
I know I'm jumping the subjects here, but I have some things to say about a lot of things. If you EVER think of buying the "Blitz Energy Gum". Don't. It is the worst chewing gum I've ever tasted! I took a bite on my way from the grocery store and the first thing I did when home was to drink lots of water to get the awful taste away. Yack!
Blitz Energy Gum - toxitacating your breath from the very first second
When that's said: Have a good night everyone!
PS. I got a job offer for Summer 2009 today, Yay!