Yet another little semester thing comes to a close here in France, which means that I've been here for about 3.5 months. Time here is flying faster and faster every single day, I honestly can't believe it. In just two more weeks, I will be here for four months! Definitely a lot has happened in the past 6 weeks (since the last vacation) so I'm going to try to summarize all that up here. So my French has definitely improved a lot! Except whenever I have to talk to someone to order food or something like that. I don't know why, maybe nerves or something. Even though I speak better and can say what I want without having to think most of the time, my vocabulary is still hopelessly small and I'm just starting to get used to using the conditional tenses (would, should, will, etc) which are a lot harder in French than in English. Also when I think back to how I spoke a month ago, I only see minor improvements, not major improvements like in other months which kind of scares me. Going at this rate I have no idea how I'm supposed to become sufficient and/or fluent in French by July. I know tons of AFSers have taken a fluency test in which you can take around April (I think) and totally passed, but I can't see my self doing that. Maybe I should ask someone who has already done this. That's probably a good idea.
Something really sad also happened in the last six weeks. One of my best french friends moved away! Which was totally a bummer and unnecessary in my opinion. Also I've been teaching random French people how to swear in English (besides the obvious words, obviously) which always turns out to be super fun because then I learn their French equivalents and everybody freaks out when I use them. Like yesterdat for example I used connasse which roughly translates to bitch and/or stupid bitch, to which my friend replied "Omg! Who taught you that?" (in French, obviously) To which I replied "you." Also another thing happening at school is that a new building where all our classes will be after the vacations was just recently finished and everyone is freaking the F*CK out. I don't really get why, its just a new building. But its a very interesting building for a school because its all harsh black, whites, cement and glass. In the words of my friend Alexia "C'est trop design. C'est comme une musée" (google translate, folks.) So of course that really just means that I'm going to spend all January and probably most of February trying to find out where just exactly my classes are, and I just got used to the old building fml.
Of course things other than school have happened in these past six weeks! I went to Lyon with AFS for one, and you can read about that by scrolling down the page some more. Last weekend I went to Lyon again, but this time just with another exchange student (shout out: Svana) which means that we just went there alone. Gasp! We also met up with Isabela, another exchange student. It was actually quite simple to get into the city because France's bus system doesn't confuse me. So anyway around 10:15 Svana and I get on the bus and for the next like 30 minutes we sit there listening to the bus driver revving the engine with nothing happening. And then out of nowhere Svana sings an Icelandic go bus driver song and about a few seconds after she starts singing it, the bus starts moving. Thank you Icelandic magic. We got to Lyon around 12pm, ate lunch and basically shopped at the mall there (which is pretty big) until 6:30pm. Of course We took a train home, which was like a ghetto version of the Harry Potter train.
Anyway, since yesterday was the last day before vacations and more importantly, Christmas the school had like a concert thing. It was very n'importe de quoi and the room was hot and smelt like sweaty adolescents ew. So needless to say, I didn't really spend that much time there. The was also les repas de noël which everyone said was super amazing (but really, when is school food that good?) but it actually kinda sucked. The buche de noel was frozen, foie gras tasted like... poor exploded bird liver, the meat was either a choice between chicken stuffed with weird things, wild boar, or fish. So everyone agreed that les repas de noël this year were terrible compared past years. Whatever. The other day my host sister was brain storming on what we would be eating for our actual Christmas meal this year and she came up with foie gras, salmon, either deer/wild boar, among other things. I hope we don't eat deer though.
Anyway, thats kind of my life in a nutshell of the past six weeks. I hope everyone has a great christmas. I miss you guys!!
Anyway, since yesterday was the last day before vacations and more importantly, Christmas the school had like a concert thing. It was very n'importe de quoi and the room was hot and smelt like sweaty adolescents ew. So needless to say, I didn't really spend that much time there. The was also les repas de noël which everyone said was super amazing (but really, when is school food that good?) but it actually kinda sucked. The buche de noel was frozen, foie gras tasted like... poor exploded bird liver, the meat was either a choice between chicken stuffed with weird things, wild boar, or fish. So everyone agreed that les repas de noël this year were terrible compared past years. Whatever. The other day my host sister was brain storming on what we would be eating for our actual Christmas meal this year and she came up with foie gras, salmon, either deer/wild boar, among other things. I hope we don't eat deer though.
Anyway, thats kind of my life in a nutshell of the past six weeks. I hope everyone has a great christmas. I miss you guys!!
You're Welcome!! :P
ReplyDelete