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After today I am at a loss for words with many things. I frankly just don’t know what to think or feel about hobos anymore. I’ve had good experiences, I’ve had bad experiences, but all in all the experiences have been more eye-opening than anything. Hobos are in every major city, and even in smaller towns. A hobo, by unofficial definition (at least for me) is someone who wanders or lives on the street and dresses (generally) poorly, and begs for money or food. There is a fine line between a beggar and a hobo, but I don’t really want to get into a debate about it all at this point in my life.

Anyways, the day started at 06.00 becasue I had to get an early start on doing the laundry. I was surprised to find out that people were doing laundry before me. What are they crazy? I thought I was crazy waking up at that hour when the garbage men aren’t even out, but especially on a Friday when all French students go home to their parent’s house, and I would assume could take their laundry home with them. Apparently I’m wrong, but no matter, I was able to purchase a ticket for 4€ bloody much money! The woman was in a bitchy mood as always, but I think I made he smile when I couldn’t figure out how to start the machine. I had to ask her to help and after a huge sigh like it was the end of the world to get off her fat ass, she said “Ugh, Je viens” and then came and showed me. So I went back to bed and set the timer on my mobile so that I could wake up, and then Í ran down to put into the dryer which was a bit more straight forward. but by this time we were getting close to my 10.30 class, so I was panicing. Eventually I took it out at about 20 past 10.00 and threw it in my room and ran to class (and was still late).

Class was interesting as we had oral presentations, and I was clearly the best as most people can’t even pronouce the words. I wish I could be moved up in a group or something, but at the same time I like the people in my group as they are really funny, and generally really nice. I got to pretend that I was some Swiss Francophone guy named Nils who is torn between being French speaking, living in Alcase where they only speak German. It was interesting, but my masculine / feminine forms was the only problem, Alain (my teacher) told me. I don’t understand why he insists we call him Alain, but still insists on vous-voyezing each other for ‘practice.’ I don’t need practice for that as I’m always vous-voyezing everyone anyways, so it’s just the rest of the world that’s screwed up. Anyways, he’s really just like a student who speaks French really well, but he’s been wearing the same outfit all week, which is a bit weird, but who notices besides me?!

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So it’s been awhie since I wrote anything, so I decided to throw something interesting into the mix. On Saturday I woke up late, as we went out for some drinks on Friday, and I found that it was hot, and I was bored and with nothing to do. So I called everyone’s mobiles, and of course nobody was home at all. When I say nobody, I mean nobody even had their mobiles on, so that made me a little upset at first for a little while. Then I realized that they are probably out doing things, and I am stuck here in my room by myself. The fact that most French people at this university go home for the weekends, doesn’t help the fact; so I am literally the only person left in my corridor (of about 12 people). It also seems that I am the only one that showers / uses the bathrooms, which creeps me out excessively.

So I lay around for the day mostly, and then lay some more, and then watch some Eurovision from 2005 and 2006 as they are the only forms of entertainment that I have (I decided not to bring my DVDs :'(). So I keep laying, and I didn’t call Ginette becasue I knew she was out with a family from Strasbourg that she met in Moncton or something, so I didn’t want to bother her. Then I went over to Charlotte’s room, and she’s studying for her LSAT so she’s always busy and can never find the time in the day to even eat. I asked her what was going on with people, and she told me that the girls were having a pot-luck stir-fry, and none of us were invited. That’s a bit rude, considering that we are here, and they knew that we were alone and isolated. I got over that really quickly, and then ran into Katelyn in the street and asked her what she was doing that night. She told me she was going out for drinks with the others, and then walked off, so I continued my little walk around the desolate city.

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