A Year Abroad: Jason's 21st!

Today was the first day of uni for this week. Not a bad day, langue et stylistiques francaises 2 and traduction. Translation (traduction) is quite easy, I don't want to speak too soon though. There are two classes for it, thème (french to english) and version (english to french). French to english is much easier that version, at the moment, we're translating a passage from The catcher in the rye. There are heaps of colloquial phrases I have no idea of, but I don't have that class until 1:30pm today, so I'll have to wait and see what she says about my translating skills! Langue et Stylistiques is just ok. I get the general concept of what's going on, but we're all having difficulty understanding little things that don't exist in english. We spoke to the teacher yesterday after class, and she said that she understands and our exam will be shorter and on easier texts. Yay!

We met a lovely spanish girl in our translation class today. We meet a lot of international students, but she has by far been the easiest to talk to and get on with (she already speaks 4 languages!).

Tonight was Jason's 21st celebration. We went to Regent Bistro, which kind of reminded me of a restaurant in the rocks in Sydney. I had the grilled duck (it was so good). Afterwards, we ended up at Houses of Parliament again for celebratory drinks. I headed home around 12:30. I'm really enjoying living where I am. A 10 minute walk into the centre of town. Trams here stop at 1am and start up again at 5am. Jason and I can just walk home, but the others need the trams, so they have to decide pretty early what they're going to do. There's always so many people out when I'm walking home, so I never feel unsafe or anything either.