So, Kate went off on her adventures, pulling away from Part-Dieu train station to a lovely rendition of the Scotish national anthem, which we both found comforting :) Then, I emerged myself in the world of one of the largest university towns in France, only 150,000 or so, only 10 times the size of Bangor, so I wasn't nervous in the slightest :)
It was at Lyon 3 that I quickly discovered the delights of French beurocracy. There was always a form need to enable you to colect another form, which would then enable you to get a proof of student status certificate whilst you waited a few weeks to recieve and fill out more forms before getting your student card ........ I'm now a pro at french application forms.
The university itself is of course really big and at first scary, but I've got used to it now and quite enjoy being surrounded by so many different languages (Lyon 3 has a few thousand fellow Erasmus students this year, so there's lots of people wondering around lost)!
I've been studying a lot of french grammar and doing a few translations pieces a week, but I have mostly been having fun doing beginners Croatian!
I'd say on the whole I'm very happy here. Even though I'm living in a big city for the first time in my life, there are still options to escape to the countryside and the city is really beautiful with 2 rivers flowing through it.
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