"Free Wifi"

Wednesday June 15^th, 2016

We had our third day of class today, and slowly we are figuring out the groove of things around here. As it is the week leading up to the festival, our classes are very educational on what to expect during the festival. Such as, what the awards like the Grand Prix and the Titanium mean. Essentially so that we aren’t a group of 60 lost puppies come Saturday when we first get to the festival. I love class here because it is actually information I am interested to learn about. Of course there are assignments, as there should be since we leave the summer with 6 credit hours after having studied on the French Riviera for a month.

After class, Kaitlyn and I decided to take a day to get our stuff together, and by that I mean figure out the French laundry mat. What an experience. After living 21 years with the luxury of a nice set of laundry/dryer combo in my home, coming here was quite a learning experience. First of all, it said “Free Wifi,” that’s used ever so lightly since there is Wifi but it is locked and there is absolutely no password in this building. By the way, this building is rather old and I think these washing machines were made circa 1990. Of course, we stroll in carrying our massive laundry bags- I’ve been here 14 days now, cut me some slack- and there’s multiple Frenchmen slyly laughing at our endeavors. Firstly we can’t figure out the machines, then we realize we didn’t bring detergent, then we don’t have enough change to pay the “payment center.” Honestly, it was entertaining to say the least.

The weather is really crumby today, apparently a huge storm is rolling in tomorrow. We got to watch the weather change drastically over night. Yesterday after dinner we went out to the pier to try to watch the sunset and you could barely stand up the winds were so strong, it was overpowering. The sky was clear as day, but the winds were just absurd. So I guess after the drizzly gray skies today, tomorrow we’re getting the actual storm.

For lunch today we set off to find Sushi and quickly got hungrier and just went to the first Asian place we could find. Our server spoke a mixture of French-English-Chinese as we tried to order things we understood. Honestly, we weren’t quite sure what we were going to end up with. It turned out fine, slightly disappointing on satisfying the Asian food craving but it fulfilled the hunger.

What a day... Looking forward to what is to come.

xo,

Shan