Big Week ahead...Trip to Switzerland and Germany

Things have been quiet for the past week or so.

The last week of October here in France is a week off for the students. So I've decided to visit Ori, Richard, Kevin in Switzerland, and Vince in Germany. After coordinating with them, the plan for now:

Sat Oct, 23 : Leaving from Paris to Lausanne, Switzerland. Spend 4 days there, and probably heading to Geneva for a day.

Wed Oct, 27 : Leaving from Lausanne to Braunschweig, Germany. Stay there until the weekend.

Sat Oct, 30 : Head to Berlin. Check out this historical town. Taste some quality German food and beer. :D

Mon Nov, 1 : Head home from Berlin.

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That's the rough plan for now. It's a long and winding road, and the travelling cost is going to rack up, but hey, the best part is that I get to see everyone in one shot! how cool is that?

Keep you guys updated.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Another day where families gather up, but this time eating turkey!!

Hehe, May be I should make a turkey dinner or something. :D

Alright, need to chill down a bit...

Just realized something today that may be I shouldn't be get so overly upset with the administration here. Sure, logistics are always a pain, especially when you are new to a school, let alone of a new country. However, just because few things didn't work out, I shouldn't be saying it's always the French administration, which seems to be blaming on the French cultural in general... Perhaps I got a bit upset...but in retrospect, the attitude I had was not something that I personally would tolerate.

Administration Problems...

just a pain...

I am supposed to receive an email for confirming the choices of my courses a week ago! But I NEVER got it!!

The thing is that I want to take 6 courses this term, by the time I realized what I want to take for the 6th one, they told me the 1st registration phase is over, I would have to wait for an email a sometimes now to "add" my course. A week ago I was getting worried and sent the IT department an email asking why it wasn't sent out. As of now (Technically the last day that I am able to change my course) I still haven't received it (Nor did most of the international students) so I sent the responsable person an email saying I need to get one of the courses added...

We will see what happens, but this logistic pain is starting to tick me off...

The castle of Pierrefond

It's true that they say in France the sights change a lot from city to city.

Today we went for a bike ride to another city "Pierrefond" beside Compiegne and saw the castle there. It's a mid-evil castle which was build by Louis D'Orlean, the son of Charles 3 in 1393, and then was conquered in 1617 and burned. However, Napoléon 1 had bought the castle in 1810 and Napoléon 3 restored it.

It is the first "REAL" castle that I had ever seen so it was quite exciting. It's not a castle like Versaille, which was for pleasure; It is a castle made to defend the enemies. You can find arrow slots through out the castle. There are trenches around the castle as well.

So...no sleeping beauty or Princess fiona at the top of the tower...:( I was disappointed.

Around the castle is the "city" of Pierrefond. It's way too small to be named a city though, but very pretty indeed.