I Have Classes!

Yesterday marked the first official day of class. Here's what I'm taking:

At the IES Center, and thus with other Americans ---
*Advanced Topics in French Grammar And Conversation, IV
*French Poetry of the 19th and 20th Centuries
*Theatre (we put on a play in French in at the end of the semester)

At the University of Nantes ---
*Comparative Literature: The "roman du Je" in the literature of France and Japan -autobiography and "watakushi shôsetsu"
*Japanese Language

I'm also signed up for a salsa dancing class and a yoga class through the university that each meet once a week. This should put me in direct contact with French college students, which is precisely what I want. Plus, why not try out a new skill or two why I'm here? They certainly don't have salsa classes back in Sherman.

I still don't have any information about my Japanese class, since the University professor is nearly impossible to find -- and seemingly only known by one member of the entire Foreign Languages Department. But hopefully, email will be able to find him, wherever he is, since he only spends 1 hour every week in his tiny office hidden under the staircase and shared by the Chinese and Russian professors.

I have a funny story to tell about my venture to the university campus to find this man Monsieur Takeshi Tanaka -- but I'll have to post it later.

Tchao!