Les premiers jours au Jacob Bellecombette

Bon soir mes amis,

it's been almost a week now since I arrived in Chambéry. But so much already happened. First of all I have to say how much I like the fact that everybody is posting from their ERASMUS semester all over the world or even placement. I love to read and see pictures from everybody and it is good to see that you all met tons of new people. And of course so did I =)

Marché au samedi/market on saturdays

Since we live really close to the center everything is close. On Saturdays there is a market almost right in front of our house; the food is amazing and quite reasonable. You can also get a lot of local cheese, which I will try next time. 

Below you will a find a few pictures from our campus, which is, in my opinion, HUGE! 24 buildings and over 12000 students!!!

Université de Savoie campus <3

This is Kyle, also called Snobby =)

Les filles - Demi, Emily, Emmy and Linda

 Today was a long day. Since yesterday we follow a preparatory language course, which we also participated in this morning from 9.00 until 12.30. Afterwards we had to register ourselves and got a student card. Apparantly l'Université de Savoie is a lot better organized than NHTV. We all filled out the registeration form yesterday together, so nobody could make a mistake (they even projected the form onto the wall), then we each had appointments (with 15 min difference) in between, first had to proof all our papers, then sign up and pay for a student insurance, then go next door to have somebody actually sign us in and THEN somebody scanned all our documents and cards (because they want to be environment friendly) and gave us our student card. Even though this whole process took almost an hour and it might not interest you a bit, but I was amazed that things can actually work unlike the administration at my home university.

Later Linda and I went to Le Lac de Bourget, which is about 15 min north of Chambéry, it is a very big lake almost the size of the city Annecy. The scenery is fascinating and just georgous. I seriously love everything here. <3 The plan for tomorrow is to rent a bike (possible for 3Euro a day) and ride it up there with about ten of us. Looking forward, because the weather is still great, about 25 degrees.

Le Lac de Bourget

Well - I was try to go for a run (but mountains everywhere)

Other than that I realize more and more every day how hard the lectures will be once uni will really start. Nevertheless, I also notice that I learn quickly and dare to speak more and more every day as well. Frankly, I am lacking words; meaning I gotta freaking learn 50 each day to keep up. Among our little group (consisting of German, Dutch, American and Spanish) we really try to also talk French in our free time together. It is not always possible, but we try! =)

Je souhaite une bonne nuit!