Week 1 of Class

The first week of classes is sadly over, but progress has been made on the thesis, explorations of the city, class and getting to know the group.
Professor Pouthier teaches the Civ class. He is French and has that very rich accent; the class has a theology focus and just covered the Roman to Holy Roman-German Empire.
The professor is incredibly nice (he saved Yili when she lost her Carte Orange to get on the train, by giving her an extra one of his) and he continually apologizes for his English and he teaches with a dictionary on hand. This all adds the experience, and the pace of the class is perfect for absorption and note taking. I have read a lot of the material from this class before, but now I am noting that a lot of this early theological history is very similar to political bickering. “We’re better than you because…” style of debate has been going on for millennia, and these people often resort to name-calling.
Keeping the monks under control at this point in history was also a major burden of the church, with measures to prevent knife fights built into church doctrine (I find this to be a very odd mental picture).
In French, my favorite word is Pamplemouse (grapefruit) and the first slang I’ve learned is that “yeah” can be said as “whey.” Now I can roll with all sorts of shady characters.