The start of the Christmas season

Another week gone by and therefore another week closer to going home for Christmas! Where has the time gone this semester? It feels like only yesterday that I was writing about moving into my room and finding my feet in Grenoble!

This week I found out that I am able to come home sooner than I had originally planned. I paid the fee to change the date of my flight and I am now officially going home 4 days earlier than originally planned! We are heading up to Paris the day before we fly and are going to spend a day and a half exploring Paris at Christmas (I did this last year and absolutely loved it!) and seeing the various Christmas markets before heading out to the airport and flying home! I am unbelievably excited about seeing all my lovely family and friends again!

Next weekend we have made plans to go shopping for Christmas decorations so we can decorate our rooms and get into the Christmas spirit here! I feel that as I have heard that some of the Christmas lights near my hometown have been turned on, it is acceptable for me to decorate my room! And I am also not ashamed to admit that as I am writing this, I have Christmas music playing!

This week hasn’t been very eventful here. I went to a cooking course over on the other side of town on Thursday night which was good. It was nice to do something different. However, while we were there, one of the bus drivers in town got attacked and therefore all of the tram drivers and bus drivers exercised their droit de retrait. This means that they could all stop working and go home. A bit of an issue for us on the other side of the town! Thankfully we finally managed to get hold of a taxi company and although taxi’s cost a fortune here compared to at home, we got back to our rooms safely!

Today has been a day of doing university work and cleaning interspersed with a much needed trip out of my room to get a coffee! I know that it would be too easy to stay in my room without leaving some days as I have everything I need in hear. But I make myself go out at least once a day as I know that I would end up driving myself crazy!

Tomorrow evening we are heading through to Lyon for a meal for one of our friend’s 21^st birthdays.

I think that is all my news for now! However, on a side note, I have just read this back through and realise that I always refer to ‘we’. For those of you who don’t know, I am here with one of my friends from university at home. Without her, I am pretty sure I would not have been able to deal with living in a different country, speaking a different language and studying law in said different language. However, I do also have to thank those who continuously make the effort to keep in touch with me, you all know who you are and it means so much to have so many people supporting my adventure here!