La Vie de Deux Mademoiselles a France

Ahhh Bonsoir!

Well well well, we are finally in our new place! On Sunday morning Megan and I had one last sauna and hottub before packing up all our clothes, shoes, etc etc for the last time (thank jesus!) and taxi’d it over to our new digs. Well my oh my we had to lug our stuff up 3 flights of tightly spiraling wooden stairs…quite the workout I must say. Right away, we went to get some laundry detergent in order to have clean underwear! haha! Then we unpacked everything, and had to be in our first class for 5 pm.

At 5 pm we had our first class (french language). I loved it! I am going to be learning much french in the very near future! Megan, on the other hand, did not enjoy it so much and had a major anxiety attack! After class we took the tram to the grocery store “grande casino” on campus to get food for our place. Then we trammed to Chavant to transfer to the other line to get home. While waiting at Chavant 3 black men started talking to us in french…

We had a bunch of heavy bags, high heels, and it was dark…so after he started miming vulgar sexual motions at us we got up and walked to a crowded area of the tram station. They crossed the tram lines after that and were waiting for the tram to go the other direction. But….when our tram came they crossed back over and got on. They stared at us the entire ride, and we were talking to some people we knew from school but keeping our eye on them. When we got to our stop and began to get ready to get off, the got off as well, so we stayed on for one more stop to be safe. We got off at the next stop and started walking towards our place. We then saw them at the end of the alley, then they split up and started running to the other alley in order to corner us we think. We made a mad dash into the only Mcdonalds here, and they called the police for us. The 3 guys kept circling outside the Mcdonalds until the cops came. Then a security guard took us home after we described the men.

Well we were quite shaken up after all that and just happy to finally be home. We had to be at school for 9 am the next morning for our first english class (a seminar called “the Role of the State in Europe”), and then without a break for our next english lecture class called “Voices and Visions of America”. When class was over at 1 today we had lunch and bought our tickets for the trip to Barcelona on Jan 27th!!! More info about that to come soon.

After we picked up our student cards we went to Grand Place to get some home essentials etc. Then  we came home, cleaned, ate, etc. Then went out to buy bread and wine. In traditional European style a young man stopped us to compliment me and my swagger!! hahah. He was quite nice and very polite (don’t worry Dad I didn’t give out any personal information etc etc). It was flattering, but kinda funny. We can’t wait to have our frineds over to our new place as it’s fab. The pictures I am posting don’t do it justice, and I will take more in the daytime.

That’s all for now! Bisous