SUAPS, Harrison Ford, and Missing Professors/Buses

On Sunday, I bummed around, went for a good run (well, first three miles were good, and then I was kind of farther from chez moi than I thought and almost died). On Monday, I had my first classes! In FRENCH! Easier than I thought they would be. My first class starts at 7:45 am and it takes me about a half hour to get there! Then I have a two hour break so I went to the University to sign up for gym classes (SUAPS) and they tried to overcharge me so I had to get little pictures taken of me (I now have 15 remaining pictures the size of my thumbnail if anybody wants one... hahah) and pickup my real student card and then go to my next class, after which I managed to return and sign up for a trampoline class, aquagym, and gym douce (muscle toning, relaxation and massages). All of which I am very excited for. I had decided that I was not going to take something I had done before!
Then on Tuesday, I went to my first class which I almost missed because my bus never showed up and I had to take the next one. The professor was harder to understand than my first professors. And then I had to rush to the tram station and go to the "fac" (university campus) and for that class, there were some students waiting but the professor never showed up, so we all left. I asked Mme. Rochet about it and she said that its kind of common the first week. I also got nervous when M. de Berranger started talking about strikes in Oct/Nov and a couple years when there were no classes for three months. Eek, lets hope against that.
Last night, my host mom and I watched Witness (the Harrison Ford movie) on TV in french... AND I UNDERSTOOD ALOT OF IT, as in, I don't think that I missed anything in the plot, and I got alot of the nuances. I actually really liked it.

Well, pictures of the day?
The Château of the Dukes of Brittany


My friends but not me outside the Château


My friends and I at the jardin des plantes


A bientôt,
Laura

PS I realized I don't think I ever answered the question of what Zut means. Zut means "dang" but zut alors means like shucks or "holy mackerel" very similar to crudmunkle.