La solidarité...?

Not to worry, all is well in Lille. The students are blocking campus today, so I didn't have to go to class and attempt to learn - ironically enough - about labor movements in France.

If you didn't know, there has been a bit of unrest in France.

Life at Université Charles de Gaulle: An update

I've been somewhat derelict in my blog-writing duties lately. The past few weeks probably deserve more than a bunch of pictures of Paris and an angry couple of paragraphs. I realize that this thing is a self-imposed responsibility, but I really do want to keep you all updated on how things are going with me.

Some good news: After pouting for a while about having neither an oven nor kitchen supplies I've come to my senses. What does one do in this situation? No-bake recipes. Duh.

So I bought some breakfast cereal and marshmallows and did what any American girl would do.

Un jour à Paris

Sooo...

I'm more than a week behind in posting this blog. I'm sorry about that. I'm also sorry that it will be very low in content. A recipe of laziness and business, combined with Blogspot being a pain, has resulted in this post. I won't lie, it's just going to be a bunch of pictures. 

(I'm planning to get another post up this weekend, with an update on how things are going. But, uh, I don't want to get your hopes up too high. Maybe by writing this, I'll have to make myself get it done?)

Anyways, this may be for the best, because the trip - while nice - was far too short for me to have anything fantastic to say. I'm hoping to go back a couple of weekends this semester and see a lot more than streets from a bus window. Otherwise, basically all I learned from Paris this time around is that the city is beautiful. But we already knew this, so here is the photographic proof.

Life at Université Charles de Gaulle

The title I gave to this post is overbroad because I only plan to write about two aspects of campus life: my kitchen and the weather. This is mainly a result of my neglectful photo-journaling - I'll take pictures of the Lille 3 campus one of these days. But it is also because I've been here long enough to come to conclusions about these things.

To begin, I would like to apologize for any complaining I do about my kitchen. I just like food. I like to cook. I have no oven.

I actually miss my tiny oven on Rose Street.

I also don't have any supplies, aside from the little pot that I bought. I can't really justify buying a lot of kitchen things because I won't necessarily have a way to move them in a few months. I'm just a frustrated foodie and will probably continue to grumble about this for some time. Feel free to ignore me.