Beaucoup d'Ecole

Bonjour!

School is funny, I feel like a first grader talking about very mature content. Tuesday afternoon in conversation class our conversation subject was alcohol. We discussed the drinking age in France and what drinking was like in the United States, and fake IDs but using the vocabulary of a 6 year old-because after speaking french for six years I'm still only at the "advanced intermediate" level (meaning barely able to speak) After class on Tuesday a couple of the girls and I found a tea and chocolate shop and we had coffee and hung out for about two hours before going "home" to dinner.

When we got home though our host mom asked if either of us had broken a pumice stone that had been in the bathroom. As neither of us had we said no but she didn't believe us and lectured us about telling the truth. oops. after lecturing us for about 5 minutes she asked how our day was and things went pretty much back to normal. We had pumpkin soup with garlic "croutons" (toasted bread) and cheese, salad with blue cheese and yogurt for dinner. That night we met up with a lot of the group and had drinks at cafe du theatre on the place de la comedie (the main square of the town) our table was right by a window overlooking the place and it was beautiful. Than we went to a bar called "Charlie's Bar" which was "American Themed" the music reminded me of music that would play during a 1960s movie when the characters were going into a bar that was a lot "rougher" than they were but the prices were good and the cliental was mostly students so it was a lot of fun and we all just got to hang out.

After school on Wednesday we went to "Quarter Libre" for crepes (both savory and sweet) I had one with ham, cheese, basil, and olive oil and then one with honey. The cafe was very cute and had rocks hanging from the ceiling and "rock art" on the wall-it sounds weird but it was very cute. For dinner we had some kind of tart with red sauce in it and salad, cheese, and an apple. Then a couple of the girls went to a bar on the place de la comedie for a couple hours.

Today we had conversation class again. My conversation was about cheating followed by an essay on the morality of recycling. For lunch we tried a new cafe which turned out to be a bust. It was more in the North African part of the city and so the portions were huge (good) with mysterious meats and vegetables and it was only so so (bad) so we wont be returning there. We grabbed some mediocre pain au chocolat on the way back to school. I hope to try one of the many kabob stands soon.

The weather was amazing yesterday warm(er) and sunny and what I was expecting. Today however, it rained and my jeans stayed wet through all 5.5 hours of school. So because of the rain and the cold it will be a quiet night here and then tomorrow we're going to explore some of the more popular bars that we've heard of of like the Australian Cafe.

One of the hardest things is not having a place where the whole group can hang out. For example we all want to get to know each other, but there's nowhere we can hang out for free and it's too cold to hang out outside.

Finally a couple more goals for Montpellier: ride the merry-go-round, go to the beach, learn to speak french.

a bientôt !