who actually goes to class?

it's been another week in lyon, and another week of school. but this week was much shorter than last, in fact, i didn't even go to all of my classes! which are, by the way:

histoire de lyon
psychologie sociale
SLM (the international student course)
sociologie: problematique de genres
psychologie developpementale

with mondays and fridays open! (until november when the ILP course starts up of course :() oh. and my earliest class is at 2pm. which is really wierd for me. but pretty nice. i can wake up at 10am, eat breakfast slowly, shower, get stuff done... or procrastinate.. its just lovely :)

but anyways. this week i missed histoire de lyon and psychologie developpementale. i missed history because instead of having the class in the classroom, they took a field trip up to fourviere (the church and the view). i, however, had my social psych class at the same time as this excursion, and seeing as how i had missed social psych last week, i figured that was probably more important. plus i have friends in the history class who i figured would fill me if i missed anything truly important.
i also missed my developmental psych class this week. but this was because the class was actually cancelled. so i guess that doesn't really count.
i figured next week would finally be a full week.. turns out i was wrong. my sociology class is cancelled next week. BUT. we've already kind of been put in groups for orals. i think mine is in early december (good its one of the later ones, maybe ill actually speak french in time for it!). and i have email addresses of french students! this is progress since i have still been too afraid to get notes from french students in my other classes. i keep telling myself next week. maybe next week really will be that week. 
plus i think my professor may have emailed us some notes from today? maybe this sociology class won't completely kill me!

other big news: i have a plane ticket to germany for october! i still need to buy train tickets to get between munich and passau, since i can't fly directly into passau where i will be staying. but its progress. and i am super excited :)

we also have finally been assigned our doctor's appointments, which means i really will be able to leave the country.. which is good since i just bought the tickets.

oh! and i went to an african museum with my friend sheila on wednesday. i didn't have class until 4, and she didn't have class at all. so we figured hey, why not? we thought this drum was pretty cool:

tonight, friday of course, i went out to indian food with a bunch of friends. it was rather delicious. and since i've promised i would try to take more pictures of my food, here it is:

afterwards, a few of us headed to a nearby pub to continue hanging out and chatting - no rude bartender at this one, but lots of old music :) unfortunately i had to leave a little before midnight because i didn't feel like paying for a taxi to get myself home.

but. tomorrow is going to be a long, fun filled day i'm sure because we are going to beaujolais! so i'll let you know what that's all about later :)

bon soir!