A change in seasons and the French administration system

What an eventful week it has been! Started off with a trip to Lyon to catch up with some friends from uni! It was a lovely weekend exploring a new city and seeing new sites! Unfortunately we had to come back to reality on Monday and face the French administration system again! Who knew that it was possible for anything else to go wrong?!

We tried to go to see the international coordinator on Monday with a few questions, but of course, she wasn’t there! We went back on Tuesday and waited outside her office while she was talking to another student and finally it was our turn to speak to her! It was then that she dropped the bombshell. The courses that she had originally told us were 6 credits were actually only worth 5. The information was in her big manual all along but it had taken her up until then to look in it to check! I began to add up the number of credits that I would then have at the end of the semester and discovered that it only added up to 29 and not the 30 that we are meant to have. As we are now 4 weeks into the term we knew that it would be impossible to pick up another class. Panic set in! After a phone call to our home university we calmed down! We were told that we can pick up the extra credit next semester and after more emails exchanged, no more paperwork has to be done! Thank goodness!

On another subject; the clouds had been down right over the mountains as it has been a bit rainy this week. Last night the clouds cleared and the mountains appeared. It was beautiful! What had been falling as rain down here had been falling as snow up there and so the mountains have a covering of snow on them! How strange to think that last week I was cycling around the town in 30 degree heat and this week I have got my gloves and scarf out and there is snow about! Next weekend we are going on a trip to Chamonix Mont Blanc. I hope it is a nice day so we can fully make the most of it and take lots of pictures! Fingers crossed!

That’s about it for now! Just want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has sent me post! I’m like a small child at Christmas when I go to look in my post box! I am getting round to replying to everyone, I promise!

                                                                 A view of Lyon

 View out of my bedroom window of snow covered mountains