Today we had some administrative help to fill out our paperwork to inscribe into the university, and I just wanted to say that I found it another fine example of the bureaucracy in France, and their incapacity to understand efficiency and technology as the quantity of forms necessary to inscribe into the uni is unbelievable (and ridiculous, we need proof of our high school diploma... which obviously we have because we are going to college back in the US... etc AND the woman who presented to us gave us the PowerPoint not in presentation mode, in other words, she clicked through the presentation with the side summary bar and got herself confused quite a few times. Afterward the students were talking and we all just wanted to go up there and help her change it to a presentation. It was so cute, but sad at the same time. I talked to a student who was here last semester and apparently she did the same thing. Someone has really got to start teaching PowerPoint literacy out here.
The second thing that I wanted to say is that there was an ISEP dinner tonight so that all the ISEP students could meet each other in one place before the school year really began. Well, this was fantastic because it was payed for by the university, and they wanted to treat us to tradition Savoie food, which includes Fondue. Therefore I had my very first fondue, in France, in a region where it is a specialty, and it was phenomenal. David also got the fondue and loved it. It was truly phenomenal and we would love to go back but probably can't afford it on our budget. Oh well, at least we got to try it before leaving!!
That is all I am going to write tonight because it is late and David has classes pretty early tomorrow morning, but I just really wanted to tell you about the fail PowerPoint presentation and the fantastic fondue. Yum Yum.
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