Skiiiiiiing!

I went skiing for the first time since I was a little kid today and it was AMAZING! At first I was really scared because I didn't know how to stop and I freaked out-- but I got a lot better as the day went on. I was DUMB and forgot my camera, so no pictures of me falling on my butt. Seriously, you should have seen me. It was funny as hell.

My legs are really sore now because of it, but I'm doing all right. Now I need something to do. I feel like such an old lady because I never go out and do stuff! Ugh. Oh well.

My last day of class for the month!

Today was my last day of class. How did I celebrate? I went to Haagen Dazs, of course! I had a banana caramel crepe, and yes it was delicious.

I now feel like I weight 500 lbs. Vladimir is happy.

I'm going to go see The Princess and the Frog dubbed in French tonight. I was going to see it after class, but the girl I planned on going with had something come up and now we're just going later in the day. It's called La Princesse et la Grenouille in French. I'm pretty excited.

Allez Grenoble Allez!

I went to a hockey game last night and it was a lot of jolly good fun. To my chagrin, there really weren't any redneck equivalents there. Poo. But Grenoble totally kicked the other team's butt. 7-1. Yaaaah!

Laura and I with the mascots of both teams. Grenoble's is a firey wolf (The team's name is Les Bruleurs de Loups) The opposing team's was a bear with one ear-- no clue why. A drunk guy decided to Photobomb us. XD

I feel like such a three year old because...

The name of the British cartoon character Noddy is translated as "Oui-Oui" in French.

I feel so immature for thinking this is hilarious. 

Waffle Factory...

... makes my life.

Nuff said. Can we get one aux États-Unis?

Awkward new routine I have now that I live in Grenoble #1

Washing my hair. No, washing my hair in itself is not abnormal-- I just go forever without doing so. It sounds gross, but remember-- YOU DON'T HAVE MY HAIR.

And I always use the cold water. Cold water + Cold apartment = Unhappy Deirdre.

So I'm going to wash it once I come back from class. Speaking of class, I should be heading out now! It's funny because while all of you college students are getting ready for bed, I'm getting ready for class! :D

À bientôt!

Cute animals on postcards

The Grenoblois like to put cute puppies and kittehs on their postcards in addition to things like the Bastille, the Bubbles, the tram, and fountains. Do kittehs just make the postcards better?

C'est rigolo.

Off to bed now. Bonne nuit!

Kinder Surprise!

Okay, so maybe I shouldn't worry so much about credits transferring. I think everything will come out just fine. It always does. :)

Anyway, I discovered a wonderful new candy today: Kinder Surprise. It's a milk/white chocolate egg (milk chocolate on the outside of the shell, white chocolate on the inside of it) with another little plastic mini egg inside. Inside the plastic egg is a toy that you have to put together. Mine ended up being some sort of rocket/stingray kind of thing. I'm still unsure of the purpose, but I'm proud that I put it together. This is what it ended up looking like.:

Yeah. I don't know what it is either.

Suffice to say, I will be eating Kinder Surprises very often. Maybe once my stay here is through, I'll take a picture of my entire collection of Kinder toys. :3

Today, I also went to the Grand'Place mall to buy another cardigan. And just that cardigan. This one is navy blue and cost 15 euros. I am such an old man.

Well, that was today. A little boring, but not much really happens on the days when I have afternoon classes.

You know what would REALLY suck?

If my credits didn't transfer to UE-- which I have been informed that they may not.

Fun Thing to do in Grenoble on a Sunday #1

Ride the B Tram from Cité Internationale all the way to Gières Gares and back and have the conductor approach you and say "WTF?"

First Entry!

Hey everyone!

So, the whole vlog thing kind of failed on me and now I'm stuck blogging. Hopefully when I come back home, the few videos I had made will make it to YouTube. It's not like I can't upload my videos, it's just that it takes 3 hours to do so.

Here's where I'll post what happened with me every day so you can get a glimpse into my life while I'm away. I'll try to upload at least one picture as well too.

Anyway, it's Sunday in Grenoble, which means everything closes at 1 PM. Yep. Absolutely nothing to do on Sundays here. So what do I do? Typically I clean (!), do homework, and fool around on the internet. Today I cleaned (!!), wrote postcards, and fooled around on the internet. All in all, a very humdrum day.

The weather outside is very nice today, but I'm not the outdoorsy type, so no hiking in the mountains for me. Haha. Thursday was absolutely gorgeous, so I took a lot of pictures of the "touristy" stuff in Grenoble. Those pictures will be posted to Facebook very soon.

I wish my life were more interesting, but it's Sunday and nothing has happened to me yet. This blog will become more interesting as the days go by. Promise.