Today started off fairly well.
I woke up to my family calling me, which guys, I would even get up at 6 a.m. for -- actually I was up at 6:45 to see if you were on Skype and I kept myself busy until 7:25, when I slept for another hour until you called :)
Then I got severely lost looking for the post office and HAD to stop at the only place around, the boulangerie, to ask for directions. Since I was already there and had been walking for 30 minutes, I figured I'd give in and buy a pain au chocolat. Mom, Dad and Aimee, look this one up on Google Images it's called a tressée aux pépites de chocolat -- a chocolate braided pastry! I know you were making fun of me for eating all kinds of junk this morning, but actually, it's the first sugar-added food I've eaten in four days! I'm allowed to indulge once in a while...
Anyways, when I came back my roommate and I actually had another conversation! It's funny, sometimes she scares me, and sometimes I think she's actually kind of sweet. But maybe that's only because she was on her way out for the entire day. We get along really well when we both have things to keep us busy.
Since she was out of the house, I rolled up my sleeves and cleaned the entire apartment since we switch off every weekend. Actually it was kind of fun -- GASP -- because I got to blast the radio and have a good time with it. And now here I am, fully showered and fed. Perhaps I'll watch another Grey's Anatomy or Private Practice episode on my computer.
Really, I'm just trying to pass some time until tonight, when I have my "date." I only use the quotes because in French, we use the same word for date/meeting/appointment. I've never met him face-to-face but we've spoken on the phone about three times. I have no idea what we're going to do, but I DO know that I'll definitely get a long chance to practice my spoken French!! And perhaps this will open many new doors to French friends, who knows? If nothing else, he has a car, so I don't have to walk home all alone in the dark tonight. Now that I think of it, we're actually meeting his friends -- one of whom is seeing an American girl in my program, thus how this meeting came about -- later on in the night to possibly get in a big group outing.
Either way, I'm going in with an open mind. I have something to do tonight!! And tomorrow I'm off for what will probably be my biggest meal here yet... at Jean-Claude's house in Toulon, where I'll get to see my 97 year-old great-aunt for the first time in two years. In one weekend, I'm probably going to speak more French than I have in almost a month-and-a-half here :)
I woke up to my family calling me, which guys, I would even get up at 6 a.m. for -- actually I was up at 6:45 to see if you were on Skype and I kept myself busy until 7:25, when I slept for another hour until you called :)
Then I got severely lost looking for the post office and HAD to stop at the only place around, the boulangerie, to ask for directions. Since I was already there and had been walking for 30 minutes, I figured I'd give in and buy a pain au chocolat. Mom, Dad and Aimee, look this one up on Google Images it's called a tressée aux pépites de chocolat -- a chocolate braided pastry! I know you were making fun of me for eating all kinds of junk this morning, but actually, it's the first sugar-added food I've eaten in four days! I'm allowed to indulge once in a while...
Anyways, when I came back my roommate and I actually had another conversation! It's funny, sometimes she scares me, and sometimes I think she's actually kind of sweet. But maybe that's only because she was on her way out for the entire day. We get along really well when we both have things to keep us busy.
Since she was out of the house, I rolled up my sleeves and cleaned the entire apartment since we switch off every weekend. Actually it was kind of fun -- GASP -- because I got to blast the radio and have a good time with it. And now here I am, fully showered and fed. Perhaps I'll watch another Grey's Anatomy or Private Practice episode on my computer.
Really, I'm just trying to pass some time until tonight, when I have my "date." I only use the quotes because in French, we use the same word for date/meeting/appointment. I've never met him face-to-face but we've spoken on the phone about three times. I have no idea what we're going to do, but I DO know that I'll definitely get a long chance to practice my spoken French!! And perhaps this will open many new doors to French friends, who knows? If nothing else, he has a car, so I don't have to walk home all alone in the dark tonight. Now that I think of it, we're actually meeting his friends -- one of whom is seeing an American girl in my program, thus how this meeting came about -- later on in the night to possibly get in a big group outing.
Either way, I'm going in with an open mind. I have something to do tonight!! And tomorrow I'm off for what will probably be my biggest meal here yet... at Jean-Claude's house in Toulon, where I'll get to see my 97 year-old great-aunt for the first time in two years. In one weekend, I'm probably going to speak more French than I have in almost a month-and-a-half here :)
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