My alternative study abroad record

Saint-etienne is a city with a pleasant climate, a famous French football team, and football legends Aime Jacquet and Michel Platini. The university of Monet Saint-Etienne is also home to the National University of France. There is a direct train to Paris, and the city is also home to the famous handmade chocolate Weiss, which, like Hermes and Louis Vuitton, is a symbol of supreme taste for French socialites. For Chinese girl He Ling Wei, her 4-year undergraduate life at The University of Jean Monet Saint-Etienne is just like this famous city. Her supreme quality comes from her unique characteristics and her inner confidence and strength.

Guerrilla warfare to save you, my strike

Domestic schools only "make up lessons" said, but French schools have "strike". Students and teachers have the right to decide if they want to strike -- by voting, of course.

Anything can be the trigger for a strike, as long as someone suggests it. From students disagreeing with a new national law, to students going camping instead of being cooped up in a classroom because the weather is so beautiful. Can be put to a vote.

One afternoon we were having a small language class. Suddenly, a French student stood up, his arms waving furiously and a stream of French chattering from his mouth. My French was not very good at the time, but I was able to listen, guess and understand, and he said, "This course shouldn't be taught today, it should be moved to the week after next."

I can't sleep at all! Is the content of the course also available to students? Crazy, crazy, crazy! Then came the vote, and the culprit made his way to the front of the room, where the professor should have been standing. After a few words, nearly all the students in the class raised their hands.

The vote was unanimous, and the students escorted the professor out of the classroom. Please note that this was not a "dismissal" of the professor, but a perfectly normal strike. Suic told me that last year's strike was a serious one, but today's strike is a minor one.

Next thing I know, the school organizes a vote every week. Once the vote is approved, the results are strictly enforced by a "well-armed" patrol of enthusiastic teachers and students who "stand for justice".

One time during the strike, our professor gathered us together to secretly attend class. The professor had teaching assignments, and if the strike lasted too long, the teaching schedule would be very fast. We were in the classroom when the patrol spotted us, and the professors and students were thrown out without a chance to defend themselves -- and you had no reason to defend yourself, since it was during a strike and you were "violating democracy" by attending classes secretly!

Want to get a high rent subsidy? Be in love

For international students, college dormitories are in short supply, so many choose to rent. French students rent a house is subsidized, every student without income can apply.

Applying for rent subsidy can be a "skilled job", and it can be really difficult for foreign students who are not smart enough. The French government encourages heterosexual sharing of housing, and the rental subsidy for foreign student couples is very high. Therefore, almost all foreign students are accompanied by their "other half" when applying for rental subsidy. Many foreign students and I have discussed this rental policy. Is it a form of anti-homosexuality in order to promote the population growth of France?

I share an apartment with my best friend Lina, but our lease is signed by me and my "boyfriend". Of course, Lina will also be other boys "borrow" to sign a rental contract, in a school, have never spoken of men and women, are very likely to be rental contract on the sweet lovers oh!

The "contract boyfriend" is a guy I met in the big class. He is short and good-looking. When I first arrived in France at that time, I was eager to get a place to live and watched the recess. After I timidly explained my purpose of coming, the boy readily agreed that the girl who shared the house with him was going to return to China and he needed to find another "girlfriend".

Here, I first went to the special subsidy center and made an appointment with the staff, and agreed that a month later my "boyfriend" and I would go to the center for examination. Over there, the "boyfriend" and his "girlfriend" went to the subsidy center to be examined. His explanation was simple, but it served his purpose: Our relationship was broken and we had to break up, and of course we couldn't continue to live together.

Want to show off your art?

The canteen is a "rent-free" treasure

In order to facilitate their study, overseas students should pretend to be lovers to rent a house. However, in order to promote their band, some international musicians "rent" a corner of the school canteen without paying rent, and play music there with the attention of all the people, so that we "honest tenants" envy.

The canteen of our school does not need to use the stereo to play music, students who do not want to listen to music can take sandwiches to the playground to eat, students who want to listen to music can sit in the canteen, listen to the band in the corner of the canteen playing freely.

Every day, the band would set up their instruments in the corner of the canteen early. When the students rushed to the canteen to eat, the musicians would break into formation and start playing, which was on the one hand to promote their band, and on the other hand, a form of artistic catharsis. The musicians also hand out fliers to students, and of course there are tickets to the concerts, which are free, so that students who like their music can go to their official performances.

The bands in the dining hall are not only free music groups from our students, but also bands from other schools and outside schools. In short, the bands in the dining hall show their talents and play hard in each corner. There are obvious signs of "fighting art" between each other, and the pride of artists.

Pride lies in the fact that even if the band plays for a whole day, even if the performance is really good, even if the house is full, they will not put their hats on the ground in front of the band - to receive "rewards" from the audience.

In other words, I ate little breakfast that day, and I was so hungry that I jumped up and down before the class was over at noon. As soon as the noon bell rang, I took Lina to run to the school canteen. It happened to be AIDS Day, and there were students in the school disseminating their own educational knowledge about the subject, and there were students handing out pamphlets, dutifully, and everyone tucked a copy into their hands.

At that time I was in a hurry to eat, did not think much, took the brochure into the canteen. When I was seated at the table with my tray, I calmed down and opened the brochure.

I was embarrassed - the condom that came with it fell to the floor as I opened the book. My face turned red, but no one in the cafeteria laughed at me, and everyone continued eating, drinking, and enjoying the band. Amen. God knows HOW glad I am that this is France. If in the domestic, I have long been the eyes of compatriots thorn hedgehog cough up.