An Explosion of Diversity: 1st Day at School

Yesterday was my first day of language classes. Class was, as expected, an overwhelming first day of french language immersion. I'm assuming it'll become less intense for me as the days go by (as immersion programs usually go).

What was extraordinary about yesterday was the people I spent time with over the course of the day. Yesterday consisted of sightseeing and bookshopping with a Bulgarian girl, an Israeli boy, and a German boy, class with a Japanese girl, a Palestinian man, and an English girl, and later that night Amalea and I went for a drink with a German boy and his Serbian (but now lives in Italy) friend.

I don't think I've been exposed to so many people from different backgrounds in such a short span of time as I was yesterday. It was both phenomenal and exhausting. I had to go from being consistently social with one person (namely, Amalea) to being social with many more than one, in addition to having the newfound worry about the language barrier. (It seems, however, that English is the linguistic meeting place these days, so Amalea and I had it quite easy. I'm assuming that most of us aren't necessarily surprised by that.)

By the close of the evening, I collapsed on my bed and went to sleep.

I think that loafing is not what I thought it would be at all. It's actually damn tiring, though enjoyable nonetheless...