Les dîners

Last night we had dinner with our second family--one of the tutors (the first one I met who is in my picture of the outside of the center) and her mom. There was so much good food. It seems kind of sad to describe it all and not have any pictures to show, so I guess I won't go into detail, but Elyse said she wanted to lick the vegetable bowl clean. They were that good.

Dîner chez Marchetto is very different from dîner chez Daniel, so I'm kind of glad we get to eat with two families. At the Daniels', we sit boy-girl-boy-girl, and I think Mme Daniel might invite a different male student each time just to balance the table because we only have one Vanderbilt guy in our group (there are only 3 in the program). Also, all the women have to be served before the men, so the dishes make two rounds before everyone has food, which seems sort of silly to me. It's funny because they are really formal about some things but not others. Wednesday night a bee landed in my soup, and I just scooped it out with my spoon and put it on the edge of my plate, and Mme Daniel crushed it in her napkin, gave me her clean plate, and wiped off the soupy one for herself, all at the table.

Besides Elyse, the other girls in my group are from Sewanee, and they know Louise pretty well and have actually met Evan! kinda crazy. But overall, the dinners are awesome. I don't think we've had a disappointing dish, and we've only been a few times, but every meal's been at least 3 courses, so that's a lot of food.

Apparently, another group had sting-ray last night. I'm kind of jealous even though it doesn't sound too tasty. I didn't even know people ate sting-ray. They all said they liked it, but they're glad they didn't know while they were eating it. Their hostess speaks no English, so she looked it up in the dictionary.

Today after class, we all went to the Musée Granet, which is next door to the V-i-F center to check out the Picasso-Cézanne exhibit. We took a tour and then had some time to wander around by ourselves too, which I always prefer anyway. It was cool. Tomorrow we're going to Nice for the day, so that should be nice.

I promise to try to stop making bad word plays on my blog.