Sorry I haven't posted in EXACTLY three weeks!!! Things have just been going on. Sooooo, what I'm gonna do is update you all who has been reading on what I've been doing for the past few weeks.
September 30 - I went to the soirée internationale at my university here. and saw some awesome talents being shown from the students from all the different countries. I wish I could've taken pictures but my phone with my good camera died. -____- I did something for the soirée as well. I decided to sing "If I Ain't Got You" by Alicia Keys for that night with my friend Jocelyn playing the piano. One word: AWESOME!! It was seriously the BEST night of my life (and I know I've said this many times! haha) I felt so great after I was done with the song and I got a standing ovation!! (the first one in my entire life, actually) Everyone was clapping and I loved it. I have to give an extremely huge thank you to my friend Jocelyn also! We got everything together in three days. (because I almost didn't sing for the soirée!) She really helped me out, and she was a really great cooperator. Thank you sooooo much Jocelyn!! I'm so glad I did this soirée though!! After that, I went out and hung out with my friends and I got compliments the whole night!! ^_^
Here is a video of it that I put on YouTube (recorded by my friend Katsuki!!)
October 1 - October 9 - This week was pretty much my Fall Break. lol I didn't really do much. A lot of my friends went to different countries like Italy and Greece, and other places. Some left Angers and stayed in France and went to Paris and Lyon. I decided to stay here in Angers. I kind of had a chill Fall Break. I caught up on sleep, and I did some shopping, and sent my family some postcards as well. Also during that week I week I went to the market with Julia. It was a good break for me. I relaxed all through break haha.
October 10 - October 13 - On October 10th, it was time to go back to school for the fall semester. For classes, we had to be placed into levels based on how we did in the intensive courses back in September. (or for people who weren't here in September, they had to take a placement test on October 5th.) I went to school that day and saw that I was in level Superior!! (the highest level) I was happy and a bit relieved because now I knew I had a chance to get the classes that I needed. However, whoever got into Superior had to take another test, because this level was split up into five more levels. After I took the test, my relief started to go down a bit, because I started to have doubt in getting my classes. Then for the rest of the day we got schedules to go to some classes for a "trial run" to see what we wanted to take. It was like this the next day after we got our results back.
Then, the next day on October 11th, after I came out of Literature class, I was going to see how I did on the placement test. When I came out of class, my friend Anhton sees me and he's like "Hey, we're in the same level, 341." I had to look at the paper again to see where we were and I then became surprised with myself. I couldn't believed I had placed there!! There are five Superior levels : 331, 332, 341, 351, and 411. I was totally proud of myself, and not only that, I knew FOR SURE that I was able to get the classes that I needed. I was also happy that there were some people from group 6 back in September in my level also.
For the rest of this week, after we got schedules of potential classes we could take, we went to the classes to see how they were and stuff. I already knew what I was going to take and I'm so glad everything worked out such as not having one classes overlap with another. The classes fit perfectly. It's not set in stone until tomorrow (October 17th) but I looked at my schedule and there were absolutely NO classes that I needed or wanted to take that day meaning...NO. FRIDAY. CLASSES!!! Three day weekends are awesome!! ^_^ Not only that, but my first Monday class starts at around 11:15am...super long weekend!! Buuuuuut, on a not so happy note, on Tuesdays I have classes from 8am to 7pm...YUCK!!! Not gonna like that day!! haha.Once I get everything situated with classes, I'll make more posts. I will also try and post more pictures and make random posts about small things just to keep you readers updated!!
Keep reading...and sorry for this suuuuuuper late post!!
~Mia ^_^
