Just when you're starting to get down on your French skills, convince yourself that you cannot actually speak the language that you've been taking for oh, 7 years now, you have a delicious dinner in which you manage to communicate more than "oui" "merci" and "s'il vous plait". We had a delicious dinner of "
raclette" - which is essentially melted cheese on potatoes. Our host mom, who seems to know what Americans will and will not like, tells us that "tous les Americans l'adorent [all the americans love it]." It's very snacktivity - you melt the cheese at the table on a funny little grill looking thing and put it on top of your potatoes. Also at dinner tonight was Mimi's ami Andre, who is hilarious and seems to have done everything imaginable - including sailing across the Atlantic. Good company, good people, and good music (The Beatles and The Rolling Stones). It was nice that my brain stopped translating everything into English and let me just understand it in French. The rest of today was pretty mundane. Class, course meeting, homework, etc.
Yesterday was a day of walking around. I met a couple IES people at L'Hotel de Ville and we stumbled upon not only great street crepes, but also awesome modern art juxtaposed with old churches and buildings all around it.
We then walked through
La Marais,
Hotel de Sully, a bunch of parks (all of which seem to have statues), down along the Seine and we went into Notre Dame. Notre Dame is absolutely amazing. Then again, most of the architecture in Paris seems to be that way.
Then I went to "un fete" with my friend Alison at her host family's (famille d'acceuil) house. We had la galette, which is a French tradition. The tradition usually happens around Christmas, but it seems to extend far into January due to popularity. The delish cake is baked with something in it (ours had little animals) and whoever finds it in their slice is the king or queen of the party. Alison was the queen twice. Overall, two good days.
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