Paris // Lyon // Nice // Le-Puy-en-Velay
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*I will add more pictures later. They take a while upload. Bonsoir blog! Today was a mix of classes, factory visits, bowling, and bars. Oui! This morning I ingested a coffee and became incredibly jittery. The energy helped me complete my business card and cardholder design in Illustrator. ESEPAC was kind enough to let us print out our cards and cut them out. We were able to see the printer and die cutter in action as well as other machines at ESEPAC. It so happened that the students were testing a unitized load of BREAD in stretch wrap at their vibration table. The vibration table was supposed to be on for 2.5 hours; however within in the first 15 minutes or so, the stack of bread was tilting significantly. After that was done, a toooooooon of people take loaves and loaves of bread after testing, otherwise the bread would be thrown out. I took 1 loaf at first and then 2 more, because why not? After creating business cards (which I will post pictures of on a later post), our group split half and half to visit different packaging companies nearby. The other group visited RWK, a company that specializes in plastic film. My group went to Union Plastic, a company that specializes in plastic injection molding, particularly for pharmaceutical packaging. I didn't take too many pictures inside, mainly because due to confidentiality and privacy (?), but I did take pictures of my dope outfit. Peep the drip. The visit itself was interesting, as most of the machines I saw were ones I learned about in my machinery course. However, the whole tour was in French and I had no idea what was going on. Obviously, I could only see and infer so much. There were times I got quite bored, but many of the French students were kind enough to translate a little. One student sympathized with me, telling me that the tour was long for them as well. School concluded and our hosts took us to McDonald's! I have never been to a foreign McDonald's before, so I was a little excited. However, French McDonald's is basically the same as the States's. The biggest difference I could find was that French McDonald's served wedge fries. There were quite yummy; that was it. To be honest, it wasn't anything special. Just cheap and convenient, like fast food should be. Tonight's fun activity was BOWLING! I personally am not the best at bowling, but managed to score 2 spares thanks to some encouragement from friends and good posture (thanks Azim). The whole experience was enjoyable and it was fun to see the students be competitive. Some people were reaaaaally good. I scored a 64 and the highest individual score I spotted was a 141??? Whateva, I am a lover of the frisbee. Pas de problem. Surprise bar adventure! We hit the bars after bowling. There is apparently a nearby bar in Le Puy that the students frequent during non-class hours. 5 out of 6 of us went and experienced a lot of singing and chanting in French. It was a fun sight to behold; however, I was extremely tired. I had a green drink that tasted a lot like toothpaste. I didn't mind it because I like mint, but it seemed unpopular amongst my peers. Dommage. I am way tired. I have a fun blog post for you tomorrow though - stay tuned for a new location.
*Oooooooooooh, aaaaaaaaaaaaah*
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