I can't remember when I wrote these but anything called "Strasbourg Diary ##" was written when I didn't have interent access.
Well at the moment I am in McDonalds. I came to use the internet and to eat. I have now eaten, and I want to use the internet...but I can't find the connection. I think it might be off today but I don't know... at any rate I am not very happy about that as this is the whole reason I came here so I can check to see if I have any mail from uni or from anyone else, and to look up some things that I want to find out. Apparently I won't do that now ! So that's wasted my day. As you can probably tell I still don't have internet in my room so I don't know what to do. I don't know if I am being charged with internet included or whatever, but if I am then I should refuse to pay or ask for money back because it has been over sous 7 jours and evidently I do not have a connection. Yay for France...
I have now ran out of things to do for entertainment alone in my room. I have played DS until the battery ran out, I have played all the games I have on my laptop, and replaying some, I have over listened to the music I have, I have been sleeping probably a bit too much. I can’t do any work for lessons because I don’t have either work or lessons. I can’t do my essay for Birmingham because I can’t look at websites. I can’t go out to do things because there is not much interesting to do in Strasbourg apart from shop and that costs too much money. I can’t go visit people because I don’t really know people here. So it looks like I will be back here on Monday to hopefully do the things I need to do.
The other night when I went out to go to buy food I came across some people speaking English so I asked if they were Erasmus students too and they were, and live at Robertsau. There is one who lives in my building on a different storey, and she also said that no-one talks to each other in the building and that there is nowhere to meet anyone in the building (no room or anywhere with chairs). She also said that she went to one of the other buildings and within 10 minutes she had met more people there than she had met in our building in 2 weeks. Typical. I get stuck with the worst room in the worst building, in one of the furthest away accommodations.
I keep refreshing internet connections hoping McWifi will show up but it doesn’t. I’m wondering if I should move seats and try somewhere else just in case there is no reception in this part for some reason... The chair in the corner with the plug opened up so I guess I’ll go over there for now......
...It didn’t work. If anything, less networks are available. I read the sign on the wall about wifi, it said it’s free and unlimited except for construction purposes, from 2-4 and some time in the evening like 8 o something. Well it is now 17.21. I see no reason why it is not on. Maybe it’s just because it’s a Saturday. I think I’ll just waste time for a few hours to see whether it turns on or not...
I am so sick of France now. I keep looking for good things about Strasbourg and trying to feel positive, but I can’t find any and I can say for sure that this is the worst time I’ve ever had in my life.
Add: Ok there was a really strange man walking about here, and he sat behind me before. I moved seat, and just now he walked around again and is now sat two tables in front of me, and is being very annoying by sitting and tapping his empty cup “to the beat” of the music playing...Now he said something to a little girl in the play area... Creepy.
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