Tomorrow: First Day of School

I couldn't find a picture of me on my first day of school, just of little Ms. Princess of Spain but I did find this: I think I beat the crap out of that blondie.




I finally start school tomorrow, after being here for almost a month! Insane, I arrived on the 20th, doesn't feel that long and it makes me feeling kind of like a failure in the language department.

But I'm not too worried about that cause I'm more concerned right now about the apartment department. I'm being kicked out of Cite U in... 19 days! Ok that's not so bad, I'm sure I'll be able to find a place but it's just that everyone here is so obsessed with apartment hunting that I almost feel like I have to as well.

I arranged some visits, and also helped some friends from the Welcome Program look at flats this weekend. Basically we looked at ridiculous 650 Euro, 10 square meter rooms (again, freaking center for ants), then a place right next to a creepy cemetery and finally a place in front of a smelly fish market. Yup, not so glamorous!

This city is so dense, that in the city center people are just piled up like sardines in apartment buildings, renting 10 square meter rooms with a kitchenette and toilet in that same area which just makes me claustrophobic to even think about it! But I know I'm a lucky girl and I know I'll find something (applying The Secret right there).... so it's ALLLLL GOOOOOD.

Now back to the real thing, class start. Tomorrow, 12pm: Violence, Memory and Amnesia in 20th Century Chile. Wait, what?! Yeah, I didn't even know I had registered for this class until yesterday! Haha, because registration was a mess. Maybe its not the smartest thing to come to Paris to take a class on Latin American politics but whatever, I'm still interested in the issue, plus... there's nothing I can do (no add/drop policy in this school, they don't know nothin').

Then I have something more predictable: French Politics and Society of the Twentieth Century. Nice, reasonable, safe class. But tomorrow, oh yeah, tomorrow I have the best one: The Age of the Avant-Garde in Paris. Art History elective that I'm extremely excited about. It's just that in here I can almost only take boring comparative politics classes that I'm not too excited about, but the electives are amazing. For example, I'm taking Photography and YOGA for credit.... Hahaha!

*Don't worry Mom&Dad I'll graduate, eventually.

Yes, YOGA for credit, that's quite something. So I'm gonna go to bed early like the good old days and have nice dreams about getting on the school bus and making cute little friends...

Please Sciences Po don't crash my spirit or you're going down betch.