Well it’s the Easter “holidays” now and I fancy taking a break from the relentless beatdown I’m currently receiving from the Engineering department (in the form of examples papers) to write a little about my recent trip to Paris.
First of all, I assume that because you’re reading this, you have found the other blogs of use and/or interest, which is great! It means I’m not wasting my time or talking rubbish. Secondly, I’d like to apologise on behalf of my video appearance for bearing a perilously accurate resemblance to Mike Tindall. For those of you who don’t know who he is or what he looks like already you have a pretty good idea now. Don’t tell him I said that.
Anyway, the relevance of my Paris trip to you is that it was with the university, run by the language unit of the Engineering Department. As an engineer, you are encouraged to continue or commence a modern foreign language as an aside to compulsory studies in the first year, and then have the option to study a language as a module later in the course. I’m not sure about other departments, but this is the sort of opportunity encountered frequently by many students at Cambridge, just a bonus.
Before spending money, the whole week cost me under £90, and I managed to greatly improve my French, visit a few companies, and of course spend a week in Paris. The weather was perfect; the people were great (except for one oversized and under-clothed local I managed to wake up at midnight) and of course the city is amazing. We’d usually finish our company visits early afternoon, then have the rest of the day and night to see and do what we liked, including ruin one man’s proposal to his girlfriend at the top of the Eiffel Tower (and legging it before we saw the consequences), row-boat gladiators at the Palace of Versailles, and repeatedly pose like idiots for the many photos that were to be taken. One downside of the trip was that I spent the whole week on crutches, which was neither comfortable nor fun, and Paris isn’t exactly crutch-friendly either ( if you’ve read the things I’ve previously written, you’d have undoubtedly encountered the word “rugby” at some point).
Just a quick update on what I’ve been up to. Now I’m going to get on with lots of questions I’ll never be able to answer. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to scare you; if I can manage it, anyone can, but I’m not going to lie and say it’s a piece of cake… Otherwise, I hope this was worth reading, maybe next time I’ll BACK MYSELF and do a video blog. Yeah that was appalling. I’m not actually like that. Sorry.