Just started a blog to chronicle my upcoming exchange semester at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 and all the crazy hi-jinx up to which I hope to get while I'm over in Europe. To start with I'll give some basic details to answer the myriad questions which you all doubtless have.
My Korean Air flight leaves Brisbane in August 25. I'll arrive in Seoul a couple of hours later, where I'll spend the night absorbing Korean culture/hiding in my hotel room lol'ing at their TV. The next day I get on a flight to Zurich. A co-worker who's previously flown with Korean Air assures me that although the plane from Australia to Seoul may be a touch on the ghetto side, the planes that take people from Seoul to Zurich/Europe/anywhere else are top notch. Bitchin'.
From Zurich I'll be hitting up some sweet train action to get me to Lyon. I'll then have to present myself to a whole bunch of offices and banks and such to prove that I am who I am and that I'm doing what I'm doing, etc. Gotta love bureaucracy. I imagine I'll then spend a night or two in a youth hostel, and then on August 31 I'll move into my room at the student residences at 2 rue Soeur Bouvier (I just got an email confirming that I have a place there).
On September 1 my études/studies commence. From September 1 to the 14th I'll be doing PRUNE (Pre-rentrée universitaire something something, basically a language course to make sure I rock at French before the semester fully kicks in). From the 14th, I'll be doing the following courses -
SLM (Styles Linguistiques et Méthodologiques - basically to do with proper French writing style and that kind of thing (might sound weird, but it's important - the English/Australian style of essay writing is useless to the French, for example)).
Littérature et Culture Française Contemporaines Pour Les Étudiants Étrangers - contemporary French literature and culture, specifically for foreign/exchange students
Études des médias de masse - pretty obvious haha.
And another one that I will add when I remember what it is.
That'll do for now. Here are some photos of the uni that I found courtesy of Google. Hopefully they actually are of the uni...
2 comments:
COOL COOL COOOOL!!!!!
Exciting man. Those first few days are going to suuuuuck. Red tape etc.
God that's a beautiful building. Doubt you'll miss the sandstone. AMIRITE
I hope your plane crashes and your face turns out like a toilet.
Love the Joel Haters Club.
Ps. you are gay
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