I got up after 12:00 today. "Tsk, lazy!" you might think. Unfortunatley going to bed at 5:00am tends to make you quite tired.
Since my last post I've met quite a few people. I've now met 4 other English people from my building (one has since moved to her friend's flat which is closer to her uni), some friends of 2 of the Brits from my building, and a french friend of my friend from uni.
I went out with the English guy on my corridor, uni friend and his french friend to the Latin Quarter on Friday. The Latin Quarter is the/a student area and has witnessed protests over the years. There are lots of restaurants there but fewer bars. The social scene over here is quite different to in the UK. For a start, at uni people go out to a bar or a club. Here I guess people go and eat. I assume it's because there's less of a drinking culture than in Britain (or maybe they're just more cultured when drinking). To be honest the bars we went in didn't have the studenty atmosphere I expected but then that could have just been where we went. Another thing I'm going to have to get used to is table service in a bar.
Last night was la nuit blanche (the white night). It's a little difficult to describe but is basically a big art festival centred around 5 sections of Paris. There were several art installations in the streets, a fashion parade (we saw that from the bus but thought it was a jumble sale at first) and then more art inside buildings. We only went into one of the buildings as the queues were very long. The piece was based on CCTV but I can't really explain it here. We also saw some short films which were,...um, ...contemporary.
I went with the English guy from my corridor and another Brit from upstairs but we also met up with people on the same course as the guy from my corridor.
There was also some music. A DJ and some people with drums at Les Halles, and apparently 300 guitars at the Sacre Coeur but we didn't see them as we were too tired from walking all night.
It was a good night and I'm going to try and go to more of that sort of thing while I'm here.
I start work tomorrow. I'm not quite sure what to expect. I'm just hoping that my language is up to scratch and that they'll give me a bit of leeway for the first couple of weeks while I learn the workplace vocabulary. I'm going to get a small notebook to put in my pocket and write new words in.
Well, I'm going to go for a walk now to get some fresh air.
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