Imparfait vs. Passé Composé

Today, I had class with group 6 in the morning (8:30-12:30), and now this afternoon I have class with group 5. I know that 30 hours is a lot of school in the summer, but I figured that at least I would be learning something new every minute, or at least reviewing things I have forgotten. So this morning in group 6 when we were reviewing the endings and use and differences between passé composé and imparfait (the two main forms of past tense in French), I was happy for the review! It has always been difficult for me to distinguish the two unless I constantly practice, and that happens very rarely. Anyway, we practiced that in 6 this morning, which was good. It was a fun class, too, because our teacher (Malika) was very quick and witty and opinionated (she talked at one point about how i-phones are evil and we are all addicted to computers). We also did an exercise about a "murder" and we had to discuss who among the suspects we thought the murderer was. This led to the discovery that the Chinese girl in our class, whose name I would be remiss to try to spell, is studying to become a police officer in China. She recounted how she has already known many people who have died, been killed, or been victims of crime, and because her mother is a police officer, she wants to follow in her footsteps. Very interesting. We talked for a long time about the NSK scandal, and also the paper scandal with the News of the World paper in England, and I just felt like it was a really good, informative, fun class.
For my afternoon class, however, we started off in pretty much the same manner; reviewing passé compose and imparfait. I suddenly became very annoyed at the subject, and am wishing I had skipped class like Martin did. But then we started talking about the political system of France, which I had been curious about anyways, so it got a lot better. Still really easy for me, so I think from now on that for thursday and friday, maybe I'll bring my computer with something to actually do while I'm bored. This class has consisted of a few moments of interest and a lot of people around me asking what words mean. I'm scared to ask to transfer to the higher level (7) for my two outside classes, though, because I'm afraid it'll be too difficult for me to deal with. But then again, I'm only here for a month, so I should do as much as I can, right? That, for me, doesn't mean answering easy questions.

Anyway, so I'm a little conflicted about that. I'm also a bit conflicted about what I should do this weekend. I'm going to Lyon with a large group of fellow Ifalpes students and that's going to take all day Saturday, but what about Sunday? Should I come back to Annecy with everyone else or should I go somewhere else and stay at a hostel for the night? And if I do that; where? Marseille? Nice? I want to go somewhere close-ish to Lyon, so I'm keeping to the south of France. This day is really just a day of indecision, for me.

One more thing: I came home today to find a very bad surprise waiting for me in my room. For several days now, there has been construction of some kind going on in the building next to ours; we know this because we can hear them hammering and such in the morning. When I walked into my room this evening after class: I saw this:

Yeah. Somebody apparently doesn't know his own strength, smashed something a little too hard, and the result is a big frakking hole in my wall. It was also all over that night stand AND my bedspread. Cool. At least I'll be gone on Saturday so Josaine can call someone to fix it. The only problem is, I've only been in here for like an hour and I'm already sneezing. Dust and I do not get along. Hopefully tonight won't be too miserable...

So, to brighten the mood: here is a church. Haha. Irony.