I signed up for Nineteenth Century Art and Literature, Contemporary French Society, Film and Literature of the Maghreb, and Advanced Conversational French. I had the first two this morning, and I'm really excited about all of them. I'm not entirely sure what we are going to do in Contemporary France because the first day was very vague, but it should be interesting, and I think I'll like the Art/Lit course a lot. Elyse happens to be in all of them except Conversation, so that's nice. Each class meets twice a week for one and a half hour blocks but never at the same time, so my schedule is a little bizarre. Some days I'm up early and done by noon, and others I won't have class until late afternoon/evening. Unfortunately, I've got two classes on Friday, so weekend traveling won't be quite as easy as I'd hoped, but I can still leave in the early afternoon.
It also possible that I may be able to have an internship of sorts at a theater here in Aix. We had a reception last night to meet the professors, and I met the owner of the company, who teaches a political science course at V-i-F too. I'm supposed to meet with him sometime this weekend or early next week to see if it'll work. I don't want to jinx anything because plans are tenuous, but that'd be awesome, and I'll be sure to post about it if it comes to fruition.
In other news, Renaud made a "that's what she said" joke yesterday; I said, "It was good" en francais in response to his question about my nap, and apparently "c'etait bon" is reserved for describing food or sex (c'etait bien for everything else). I wonder how many French people have wanted to make that joke to me because I have definitely described many things incorrectly in the past week or so. There is a French version of FML (vie de merde), which he showed us last night. He had to explain some of the jokes, but we were able to catch a fair amount. I had no idea it existed in France also, although I am not surprised.
There is supposedly a yoga studio nearby, so Elyse and I are going to check that out tomorrow morning since we have the whole day free--just one class before dinner with our second family. yuppie!
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you ARE your mother's daughter! oh well, now you have a "gentle" reminder to help you always make the distinction. you must remember to tell us about the contemporary class. "Vagueness" is soooo intriguing. And they both end in "gue", now isn't that intriguing?
ReplyDeletemet with the artist today and we bonded immediately! she is definitely the perfect mentor for me and as she is younger, and i am wiser, i believe i can tell her a thing or two as well. her children are 10, 8, and 6. but i still like her anyway! there house made me pause with a long sigh as i longed, then sighed.....only you will get what i am saying and what i was feeling, which i am feeling all over again as i type this and i know you will feel it when you read this. vous êtes dans mon cœur.
can't let a typo go.... previous post *their house
ReplyDelete"Elyse happens to be in them all except Conversation." Puh-lease. Like you guys didn't plan that. and mom when did you learn french? your other posts are completely in french.
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy for you, darling! Everything looks so beautiful. I'm excited just reading about it. You needs must write about everything so I can coo over it.
ReplyDelete:) that applies to all three of you, I think
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