Rain, rain go away-Day 14- January 22nd, 2018

Note to self, its not worth renting skis in town just because it’s 15 euros cheaper. I already didn’t want to get up early for class today, but the thought of having to carry all my skis and equipment to school made it even worse. I usually give myself 30-40 minutes to get ready in the mornings, but I woke up especially early today because I knew carrying all my gear would be a pain. On top of that it was raining. The current plan was to take my gear to my differential equations class, than go return the gear before my next class.

I surprisingly left the house earlier than planned and was successfully lugging all my books and ski gear. Right before I got close to my bus stop, I had experienced a TV-like moment when I get splashed by a car driving through a puddle. On the bright side, I didn’t miss my bus this morning, it just never came. I waited fifteen minutes at the stop before I realized it wasn’t coming and had to walk in the rain to the tram.

When I got to the tram, it was extremely packed and I had literally squeeze into the packed gear with my bulky gear. On top of that, some women with a gross face boil was leaning against me.  I eventually got to school five minutes late and had to awkwardly carry all my gear through the hallways. I got to class and put all my gear against the wall, next to the others who had the same idea. The look on my skiing friends’ faces made it seem like they had similar difficulties to me.

Here’s a pic of all the ski gear in the back of the classroom.

One long math class later, my friends and I picked up all our gear and bolted to the tram station. We rode the C Line for a few stops and got off to go to the ski shop. After another five minute walk and a lot of complaining, we finally returned all our equipment. I had finally gotten rid of this burden that was literally weighing me down the past two days. Don’t get me wrong, skiing was great. Carrying all the equipment was not.

I took the tram back to campus where I met up with Nick and some others for lunch. I went to the sandwich shop and got lasagna to change things up. The lasagna was pretty good. I’d rate it a solid 8/10. We all found an empty classroom where we could eat and hang out before class.

We spent most of this free time planning our first break trips for the week of February 17th to 24th. Everyone has different ideas for where they want to go and interesting to compare everyone’s dream destinations.

Eventually circuits class began and they went by normally. After circuits was physics, which was particularly dry today. We were supposed to do practice problems, but never got around to it.

After class I headed out to the BU office with my friends to pick up our money for the week. Sebastian and Alex were doing work there so I hung out for a bit. There’s a guitar in the office that I’ve been staring down every time I’ve been there since arriving in Grenoble. Today I finally asked Celine if I could play it and she said yes. It was a classical guitar which I am not super used to, but I spent a solid 45 minutes playing guitar. I play guitar everyday at home, so it’s been bugging me that I couldn’t play for two weeks. Sebastian and Alex were also impressed by my skills which was nice.

I left out the office and headed to small food shop, I wanted to buy a bottle of wine to have in my room. I ended up buying a mid-shelf white wine. I know I am stereotypical consumer because I will buy a bottle of wine just because it says Bordeaux on it.

I got home and went to immediately crack open my wine. This is when I remembered I did not have a corkscrew. I’m 100% sure they have one in the house, but considering Anne-Marie is weird with having alcohol at the table I didn’t bother asking. I wanted to have my bottle to compliment my microwavable meals. I was going out to get food soon, so I figured I’d just buy a corkscrew because it would definitely be useful to have.

For dinner I went to a place called Tacos Royale that I went to once before in Grenoble. Tacos in Grenoble are a tortilla filled with meat, fries, some type of sauce and cheese. While not the conventional taco, they are still delicious. While waiting for my food, The Simpsons was playing on the TV in the restaurant. It was dubbed over in French and I was mildly surprised. I haven’t watched any TV since I’ve been here so I forgot it wouldn’t be in English. Yes I am dumb.

I got my food and headed home to eat. I would have eaten there but I don’t know the difference between “to go” and “for here” in French. I usually just say “oui” until they stop asking me questions. It also was pouring outside and I got soaked on my ten minute walk home. It’s been raining the past four or five days in Grenoble and I’m very tired of it.

When I got home, everyone was eating dinner and saw me completely soaked as I walked inside. I just said “je n’aime pas la pluie” (I don’t like the rain) and they thought it was very funny. I headed upstairs and changed into dry clothes to eat my taco.

The taco was delicious, although I quickly realized I had forgotten to buy a wine opener.

Here is my taco, purposely half eaten to reveal the inner contents for my blog readers.

After eating, I finished up doing my winter break planning and purchased all my flights. The plan was to do Lyon, France >> Stockholm, Sweden>>Amsterdam, Netherlands>>Dublin, Ireland>>London, England>>Geneva, Switzerland. I was going with my friends Harry, Nick, Jonathon, Alex and Sebastian. We would spend two nights in every city except Lyon and Geneva. I’m pretty confident in my flight hunting skills and was able to buy all five flights for a little over $200. We still needed to find hostels or airbnb’s to stay in, but that shouldn’t be too difficult.

We’d take the bus to airport in Lyon and back from the airport in Geneva. Geneva is almost as close as Lyon, and was cheaper to fly back into.

Safe to say we are all very excited for our trip.

I wrote for a bit for my blog, then called it a night.