Randomness

I'm sure I'll have something interesting to say soon enough, but for now I'm just focusing on trying to study for my exams (it's so much harder in French!) and trying not to scream at my translation professor for his what I feel are unfair teaching methods (he's a fan of giving us assignments that tell us to translate all this awkward British English, or English that looks like he's translated from French for us to translate back), and then if we can't do it, he gives us failing grades anyway. So basically, if I don't do AWESOME on my next exam, I run the risk of getting a not-so-awesome grade in this class. I'm trying to remind myself that it's okay, that all I need to do is pass the class to get credit for it (these classes don't affect my GPA in the United States), but it's hard for me to not worry. I just have to keep thinking that 48 hours from now I'll be completely finished with school...but between now and then I have three exams and a 15 minute oral defense of the 10 page paper I wrote last week. Aie. Challenging. But possible!

Also, I need to do my laundry and start packing. Home seems so much closer now that I have some definitive plans for when I get back....!

So! Pictures. Here's some random graffiti I found around town:


The first two I found walking to school, and the third is sprayed on the side of a telephone booth (obviously) on campus.

Here are some pictures from ma vie quotidienne (my daily life):

Here is a talking bus. It's not actually talking, but those words there say "I am not in service"

Here's my new definition of fast food: a chicken sandwich on wheat bread with lettuce and tomatoes, a coffee, and a pastry.

This is le Diplomate, a tabac (newspaper and tabacco store that also serves coffee) where we go almost daily to drink coffee and eat our lunches.
This is my fridge. I know it appears to not make sense, but the temperature here hovers around 40 degrees F, and I don't have any flowers in the box outside my window so...but yeah, it doesn't work so well in the rain. This is a picture of mushy yogurt :(

Finally, if you plan on spending any time in Angers, bring not only one umbrella, but many, or the funds for many. It's windy and they snap like twigs.