Yesterday, the directors passed out our official student ID cards! That's the green one. We got our TBC cards (the blue ones) the other week, which are cards you load with a monthly or annual subscription for the tram or bus (like a BART Clipper Pass). There are special prices for people younger than 28 years old, so a monthly pass is only 28 euros. When you use the tram and/or bus at least twice a day, it's a pretty good deal!Now that I have my student ID card, it's like I'm officially a student at the Université de Bordeaux! Sure, I still have no idea what classes I'm taking, but I have an ID card. I even used it to make photocopies today! And the machine was in French!
I think it's still pretty obvious that I'm not French though. For one, whenever I'm with a group of EAP students, it's super obvious that we're Americans because we're all speaking English and wondering what tram stop we're supposed to be getting off at. But then on Monday, I was walking with just one other student and we weren't saying anything, and a girl still came up to us and asked for directions in English. With a French accent. She just knew we were American! Although, that does bring up the question of why on earth she would think we knew where the library was... Then later, a teenage girl, who I think was on a dare from her friends to talk to a stranger, walked up to me and asked if I was British. So I've made it to European status? I suppose that's one step closer...
Tomorrow, there's a dinner for all the EAP students to celebrate the end of the Intensive Language Program, which should be pretty good. At the meeting yesterday, I raised my hand as a "vegetarian" because I didn't want to eat du canard (duck). Apparently a few other people did too, because the director remarked that there were several more vegetarians than usual. "Ça, ce n'est pas normal!"
À bientôt!
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