I received a lot of questions on my last post about my feet, so I'll answer them here: My feet hurt.
Today began with a brief orientation session full of stuff that would have been really nice to know 10 days ago, whhen I got here. They told us where to catch buses and trains and taxis, and where the post offices are, and pharmacies, where the grocery stores are, and how to make international calls. It was fine. After, I met up with Laura, so we could work on literature homework. We had to read and answer some(many hours worth of) questions on Tristan and Iseult. We just read the first paragraph of the story and the last page. It is very dramatic. In the middle, we got lunch at the cafeteria, and it was fantastic, again. I had some kind of pork skewers.
After homework, we had class from 15 h 30 to 17 h 30. This is a really difficult time of the day to stay awake, especially if you just ate a giant pork skewer lunch.
After class I grabbed my cleats from home and played football with French people. This is a 'class' of about 30 people, organized by the university. We play for an hour and a half once a week. It was really, really hard. I am so out of shape, it is absolutely ridiculous. Hopefully, I will get there soon. Regardless, it was a lot of fun to be playing soccer again, and it should be a good activity for the semester. Also, my new cleats were great.
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ReplyDelete"I received a lot of questions on my last post about my feet, so I'll answer them here: My feet hurt."
That's it? We were all concerned when you said that your foot hurt during your final push to get home on Saturday after the hike.
Your reader in Russia, and I (also of Russian descent) are still waiting to know how you're doing. But, I guess if you played soccer you feet are feeling better or hurting more than ever!!
Were most of the soccer players French kids from the university? Were they friendly? Maybe you will now meet some natives, rather than interacting only with the foreign students.