One jam-packed week

I started reading a book on Sunday night, and I haven't been able to continue it since. That's how hectic the week has been. Of course, part of the reason I haven't been able to continue reading it is because of my own stupidity...I went to the préfecture today to get my visa and even though I knew there would be a long wait there, I totally forgot about bringing a book to read. In a way, maybe that shows how stressed out I am.

So what happened this week?

We have classes every day, of course. So that leaves the nights.

Monday night: ping pong club.

Tuesday night: it was supposed to be free, but I received 4 internship offers (from the same company) and replied to three of them, two of which were under the same person.

Wednesday night: it was supposed to be free as well, but at lunchtime I received an e-mail from Isitec asking me whether I had decided to do my internship there. Which led me to write this confus post (the word confus is in French, it's the most suitable word I can find at the moment). That totally stressed me out, and I was kinda glad to have badminton that day (sports class) so that I could get rid of some energy, and while warming up I whacked the shuttle just about as hard as I could...which actually helped, I think. ('cos later I was calmer, at least for a while) Then after class I went to talk to the Decathlon people who came to GE to present their company (I won't go into details about that, it's hardly interesting unless if you're my parents helping me worry about my internship)

That night GE held a GE night in a small bar less than 5 minutes away from my place (I can almost see it from my window). Initially I wasn't sure about going since the other 4th years didn't seem to be going, and I was in my room wondering what to do (I was too stressed out to study) when Thierry messaged me and told me that there were "people" there, so I decided to drop by...and there you go, another night has gone by. (not that I would have done anything else that night if I hadn't gone there...)

Here's a photo from Wednesday night, courtesy of Marion. You might notice that the photo of the year was taken the same night. ;)

from left: Marion, me, Camille, Thierry, Cheikh, Saad

Among the photos Marion sent me, not one has everyone's face on it clearly, this is the best one. Hopefully the others will send me some good ones!

Thursday: Thursday afternoons are free for us to do sport, and every Thursday in November I had a ping pong competition. Last week was an individual competition for the unranked players (non-classés), I won the girls' category (there were only three of us, all from INSA) so I was told that I could go this week to play with the ranked players. But knowing that their level is so much better than mine, I wasn't really looking forward to getting crushed like a fly, so when my prof didn't ask me to go, I was glad not to! And since the next day (Friday) we were to have a test on SED, I could then study for the test Thursday afternoon.

But that plan kinda hit a snag...when I got back home at noon, I switched on my phone and discovered that I had received a voice message from one of the guys I had wrote to on Tuesday about the internships. (let's call him Ed, just so I don't have to keep saying "that guy") Ed had tried to call me around 11am, but my phone was switched off. So he left me a message asking me to call him back.

I called him and ended up going for an interview that same day. It takes about an hour to arrive at the company, so that was the afternoon gone. You see, I had only looked at SED a little (a teeny-weeny bit, actually) over the weekend, knowing that I had Tuesday night, Wednesday night, and Thursday afternoon and night to look at it again! But it seems that it wasn't meant to be...so after getting back from the interview I forced myself onto my SED textbook (it isn't the most interesting thing...I know I said I liked SED, but only the problem-solving part, NOT the definitions! And there are a lot of definitions...) besides sending off e-mails to both Ed (to thank him for the interview) and the Isitec guy (I should find a name for him as well :P)

Friday: As I mentioned at the beginning of the post, I went to the préfecture to get my visa (titre de séjour, to be exact). I left at 10am after my humanités class and waited for two hours there. At least I could get back in time to have my lunch before going for the test at 2pm.

After the two-hour test we had an hour of tutorial for the same subject. It was pretty pointless because no one was feeling like doing any work. The teacher sensed it and let us start late and leave early :P

This weekend is the fête des lumières (light festival) in Lyon, so I shall probably go out tomorrow night. Which means I'd better get some stuff done before that...and before continuing to read that book!

For those who have forgotten: GE = my department