school daze

So everything has officially begun and I already have a little schedule down. It's nice being able to know where I'm going in the morning as opposed to orientation which was fun but completely scattered. Every morning I come to the IFE office at 9:30, 10, or 10:30 (ok some things still aren't definite) and have "Art, Culture, et Societé" 2 days a week, "La Belle Epoque" 2 days a week as well, and a discussion course every Friday. They're really interesting classes even though I can only understand my professeurs about 75 percent of the time. And usually one of the classes takes place at a museum or cultural landmark in Paris. Like yesterday we had La Belle Epoque at the Louvre. Very cool. Both professeurs are adorable little Frenchmen named Jerome. So then we get lunch, usually a sandwich at a boulangerie and take the Metro to our Phonetics course which is basically about pronunciation and we sit in a lab and record ourselves and listen back to it. Then we (being Sasha and I who have the same schedule) walk to the Sorbonne's other location by the Pantheon and have a Grammar course for 2 hours. My professeur for that course is insane and very intense, but it seems to be working out. So I am done school by 5 pm. I work then from 5:30 until about 7 but that's only 2 or 3 days a week. I take the bus to Chloe's school and pick her up (she's 16 months) and we walk to pick up Lucie (3) at her school. I take them to the park for about an hour and walk the 5 minutes back to their house and give them a bath. The girls are so adorable and I'm supposed to speak to them in English but Chloe can barely even understand French. It's a really great job anyway. So I've pretty much been getting into the swing of things. Can't say I've done much besides school and work. But tomorrow is a new weekend...