Easter is here!!

Finally the time is here; its my last day at la Villette before the Easter holidays and I'm so EGGcited! :D Have booked a flight home for a few days next week, it will be great to see everyone again. Just have to endure one more construction class at 6.30pm and I'm home free.

This week has been my toughest to date. I have signed up for two studios for the semester, though bizarrely one is much more demanding than the other despite their equal weight in credits. These things come down to the individual professors in the end I guess. Tuesday's studio was first in line but luckily I had joined forces with two French girls the week before which really lightened the site analysis workload. Furthermore they did all the talking at the crit so I just had to stand there and look pretty (harder than it sounds when I'm in desperate need of a haircut!) The studio went well, there are only 6 students altogether so its a very intimate class. Its the only subject I have where nobody knows any level of English so I have to scrape by on the little French that I know! Its fun though. Its even given me some ideas for my thesis at home next year. Success!

The second studio on the Wednesday is more demanding. We are currently desiging a metallurgy workshop that strictly adheres to the standards of the local planning conditions. Some seriously bizarre rules-we've all had to include a car entrance on site, this site being on a corner with zero visibility; its a death trap. oh well... Anyway James and I had to design from scratch to a final presentation standard in one week as we had misinterpreteted the brief several times over the past 3 weeks or so(When you only meet the lecturer once a week, this kind of information is slow to get passed on). We got all our work done in time (just about, printing is hell here) and now all we had to do was present it. Thats fine in theory but our professor loves to talk the projects to death; it took him 7 hours to get thru 25 students. insane!! he keeps asking questions and all I want to do is take him by the hand and say 'see here I drew it, look at it, don't talk about it!' The presentation standard varied considerably from okay cad drawings to 'road kill' sketch drawings. Frankly, I was a little embarrassed for some people.

So we presented our work, I went first and got a short crit (15mins) due to my stuttering French -hoorah for poor linguistic skills! James stood up next and went on for ages, his French is really improving, he has truly left me in the dust on that one. Still though, it meant his crit went on much longer. mmwwwhahahaha!!!

Then came today, the last day, whoop-de-doo! First class this morning we had to talk (again?) to our professor individually about a detail we want to study as part of that class for the semester. Through stuttering French I somehow managed to express my choice to the teacher. Now all I have to do is figure out what he wants done for after Easter!! Its nearly 6pm now so I'd better get going. My last class today involves yet more discussions on building study choices so not really looking forard to it. Still at least its the last of this week's load.

Gonna sign off now, sorry for any spelling mistakes, still not used to these french keyboards!
à bientot...