Physiquement, je suis fou!

Finally a minute to write down my last adventures here in “I think I’m gonna melt to death” Montpellier. After the exams I had two weeks ago, I urgently had to “debrain” myself. Thanks to my crazy Erasmus entourage that was absolutely no problemo. The most exhausting thing I did that weekend was buying mint leaves for our “Mojito-afternoon/evening/night” and carrying another “found” traffic sign to my room. Life can be tiring.

But to every wicked weekend comes an end, on Monday I left Montpellier with school for 5 days to Olargues. Goal of the week? To study “le bassin versant du Jaur”. I study “water technology” here so every year a class of my school leaves to this village to do all sorts of experimental studies relied to the river Jaur. Hydraulics, microbiology, botanic, hydrobiology and more shizzle were daily bread those days. The last day of the stay we had to present our results to the village so they can see how their beloved river and relied features had changed over time.

Waking up every morning at 7h30 and doing all these research things can be quite exhausting. Especially if you just had a week of exams and a party weekend following to compensate that, so the second night in Olargues I decided to nap just for a few minutes after dinner but I woke up the next morning at nine and missed breakfast. Sounds all very serious but luckily I’m in France and work or no work, French people make party or at least soirées! So thanks to some party minded people of my class at night we could all drink away our research troubles. One night we went to drink at a medieval tower on the highest point of the village and the guys of my class found it a marvelous idea to climb it, so after 10 minutes the whole village was awake cause they started sounding the bell tower. Never heard a bell tower sound like that in my life before. Hilarious.

Doing some measurements

Au travail!

Also important: La ripisylve!

Roomies: Lauryanne, Caroline, Elodie, Mathieu (last one tried to kill me dropping a cellphone on my head when he entered our room "un peu bourée" at night ) haha

Pretty pretty Olargues

drinking at the bell tower with STE!

This weekend then were the last days before another awful schoolwork period (j’en ai ras le bol!!!!) so we went camping to this mini hippie festival “All in Wood” in the village Saussines. Ellen and François, friends of Lien at supagro knew the people who organize it and spread the news. On a well hidden field in the middle of nowhere suddenly this woodstock like place appeared with a mini stage and a wooden bar, crazy people, bbq, tents and even a swing and a petanque field. So cool!

the UKELELE band

Bartender with awesome hair

New roadsign for my collection

weird people

Fooood.

And now back to nerd-reality, a week of labs from 8h till 18h and two exams coming up. Did you ever do a lab in 34°C with a labcoat that feels as winterfur? NOT COOL.
Within three days I’ll be shouting the sentence “physiquement je suis fou” 100 times a day I think.