I usually get up around 7:30 (boooo) and get ready for school.
I eat breakfast upstairs with my family, which usually involves breakfast tea, nutella, and French bread. Mmmm!
I take the La Ronde city bus to school.
My bus comes at 8:24, and my stop is a 45 second walk from my driveway.
Most mornings, if we all make it on time, there are 4 William and Mary students who ride this bus together to school. We all get off at the St. Eloi stop and walk 5 minutes from there to the University of Montpellier 3, also known as the University de Paul Valery (The campuses are numbered and have different names based on the concentrations offered there.).
Once on campus, it's a 2 minute walk from the front gate to my building - Batiment I - which houses the IEFE (Institute for Foreign Speakers of French).
Generally, I get to school 10 minutes before classes start, so I hang out in the lobby area in the front of the building with the other students studying in the summer program.
My class is located at the top of the building...I've decided that the 3 flights of stairs every day are sufficient exercise while here.
My first class is from 9:00 to 10:30 and is supposed to be about culture I think? It's really more about practicing spoken French and listening comprehension skills.
There is a half-hour break from 10:30 to 11:00 during which time everyone goes back downstairs to the lobby to hang out/have a snack.
My second class is from 11:00 to 12:30 and is most definitely about grammar grammar grammar and more grammar. Boo.
After class, I usually take the blue tram to the Resto U (short for restaurant universitaire). The Resto U has two eating options - upstairs, which is similar to the UC or the Caf at William and Mary in that there's different options every day for main courses, desserts, and side dishes, and downstairs, which is more like a cafe. However, the food upstairs is frequently not to my taste (example: today - "Forest Turkey", yesterday - "Chinese puree"), so more often than not, I eat in the much yummier cafe located downstairs.
Paninis are my favorite things to get :)
After lunch, since there aren't classes, the afternoon activities vary. Sometimes I go home to do work; sometimes I go to the centre-ville with friends; sometimes our William and Mary professor has activities planned for us like museum visits or ice cream!
I usually get back to my house in the late afternoon/early evening.
Dinner is served promptly at seven, and both of my French parents are very good cooks! Sometimes, they have their friends Cecile and Marie over for dinner, and they are also really good cooks :) Dinner generally consists of 3-4 courses, each of which is brought to the table separately - quite typical for France. There is the main dish first, then 1-2 side dishes, bread, cheese, and then yogurt. Finally, without fail, ice cream is always served after dinner.
After dinner activities depend on the day - sometimes I play with Gabrielle the 5-year-old, sometimes I do more work in my room, and sometimes I just watch TV with my French parents.
I usually head downstairs before 10:00 and putter around the computer before getting in bed to start all over again!!
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