En francais, s'il-vous-plait!
Jenny H
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In this blog I want to share my Erasmus experience during my stay in France from January until June 2015. I hope you enjoy it!
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Start into a new adventure
900 kilometres to my new adventure The 22nd of January was the day - my first Erasmus adventure was going to start. Months of preparation, goodbyes and paperwork were finished, and I just had to get into the car and start driving into the unknown. Yes, I decided to go...
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And the french bureaucracy starts...
Arrival Forms After I arrived at my new home there was not much time to relax on my first day. I had to get registered at the university. And as it was already Friday 1 p. m. I really had to hurry up. So, I tried to find my way to the correct office - the International...
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Free weekend
Exploring my new home After that first day at Amiens full of bureaucracy and events I just wanted to stay in bed and relax, because I was still very tired. But the other part of me wanted to get up and explore the city I would live in for the next 5 or 6 months. So...
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University chaos, help me!
Planning the courses So, after I received the (devastating) results of my language test Sunday morning (yes, they are working on weekends! ) I spent my whole free day trying to develop a schedule for the rest of the semester. As I usually have a fixed timetable at my...
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First Day at French University - Quoi?!
First Day - Being lost And there it was - the first day of university in France. It felt like my very first day at university, even if I had already studied for 1, 5 years in Germany. So I took the Bus to the station that was written down in the internet as "station...
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First week - please, end!
Asking for help - Improving my social skills After the first day it didn't improve so much during my first week at the new university. I didn't get to know anybody in the lectures (as I already explained, they were all quite "cool") and I was too tired to do anything...
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The Marketing Monster
Bad start for Marketing So, the other German girl and I were taking the Bus to the economics faculty. After 5 minutes we discovered that we were in the wrong bus - there were two which were circling around the city in 2 different directions. And we took the one which...
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Events and events and events
More new people and lectures Finally, it was Friday and there was only one thing waiting for me - another new professor and two lectures with him. Fortunately, the other German girl took the same lectures so I was not alone in the small group of the Tutorial. It was the...
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Daily Life
Starting to get used to French life After the first week which had really shocked me and told me that I don't speak as much French as I thought, I started the second week a bit more relaxed. The weekend with the other people was really nice and I felt great because I...
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Please, let me die!
Motivation rising Even if it was still hard for me to follow the professors in their lectures, I really noticed that I improved a bit. Also, because I was spending the whole day communicating with my friend in French (yes, actually he wanted to improve his English but...
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Life goes on - fortunately!
Getting back to life after the illness After my two weeks of illness I was so happy to feel better again that I started to eat more fruits and tried to cook fresh things. But the cooking problem kept being there, because in a shared kitchen with about 25 people there...
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Daddy's girl
Seeing daddy again - Visitors from Germany Some days later, finally my Dad and his girlfriend arrived. I had already booked a hotel for them which was located right in the city centre. I have always been a "daddy's girl", so I was really excited about his visit. We've...
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Exams are coming
The first important exam I did not have a lot of time to miss my Dad and his girlfriend because only some days after they left I would have the first big exam in France. The course would already end after 5 sessions which was something I didn't know from Germany, but...
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To Paris by car and even more exams..
Being a good student After my first exam in France there was not much time to relax because only 2 weeks later there would be the next one. It was the other lecture I had on Monday, so after March I would never need to go to university on a Monday. But before I had to...
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Studying, thinking, the second exam
Focusing on University The following week I didn't have a lot to do except studying and going to lectures, because my friend wasn't there and I didn't always want to join the others for partying as I am not the big nightlife fan. I did some sports and tried to cook...
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New beginnings and adventures in Normandy
How jealousy can destroy relationships The situation with my boyfriend escalated more and more as he became incredibly jealous and I simply didn't want to deal with that anymore. I was confused, didn't know what to do and just needed time to think about all that. In...
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Still Discovering Normandy
Etretat - the beauty of nature After Giverny the bus tour continued to Etretat, an amazing place in the Normandy. It' s a small village next to the sea, with small shops, cafés and a lot of tourists. Why? Because of the famous rock formation right next to the beach...
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Mont Saint-Michel - The Disneycastle of Normandy
Timetable in Danger The second day of the Normandy trip started with chaos. We met at 7:30 to have breakfast and were ready for departure at about 5 minutes to 8. But actually we were almost the only ones. There were people from our group that STARTED breakfast at 10 to...
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The ghost train
Train problems The time in the bus while we were driving from Normandy to Paris was horribly long. After an hour there was no hope left that we would be able to catch the last train to Amiens that we had found in the internet, so we just lay down and slept. Because it...
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Holidays are near
Last exams before the holidays Finally, it was the week of the last exams which were only two in fact. Well, and two in the language and civilization courses but they were done with not even one hour of studying. The other courses had already finished. But for these two...
