Okay I don't want to give a play-by-play of classes, that would bore you all(and me) to tears. I will share a little info I found quite unnerving. My traduction prof handed back our "practice" sheets from last week that will not count for or against us, it was simply to show us what to expect. I about had a heart attack when I saw 9.5 on my paper. (That is 9.5 out of 20 mind you) After the majority of us had the same devestated look on our faces our prof gave us this bit of info: in france if u score between 9-14 out of 20 it's considered good, and if it's lower you need work. You may ask, then what is 20/20 considered? "haha impossible pour tous"-prof adrien ...I guess it's considered impossible for students to even get 18/20. and if you score above 14 they are dramatically impressed with you. French people are weird. ;)
So we were all able to purchase tickets to go to Mont Saint Michel and Saint Malo this Saturday with the CIDEF excursions, and honestly Im pretty pumped to get out of Angers and see stuff, Chantal told me to look through her travel books if I wanted, to check it out before getting there. So I might.
I recieved a package in the mail from my parents today, filled with random amazingness like mac n cheese and peanut butter. They included valentines day laffy taffy, and I immediately thought "I bet Chantal and Dom have never had this" So I ended up giving them some, which led to Liana and I struggling to translate the jokes on the back to Chantal. The three of us ended up at the snackbar with Chantals huge dictionary trying to explain the word ointment...oh mon dieu. It was actually quite fun, we ended up chatting with Chantal over some tea about school, and valentines day, and how it is commercialized in America and not so much here. She asked us about spring break plans and when we told her she told me she has tour books in my room for spain and maybe italy, and some of the others, and to check em out. =) She then got all excited about a movie she has based in spain, and went to find it for us. It is not sitting on my desk and Liana and I plan to watch it this week if we can figure out the player upstairs...hmmSpeaking of valentines day. Okay. I normally hate the holiday, but today it wasn't commercialized, and the only time I noticed it was while on fb, or when I saw a boy walking down the road with flowers...that was of course until Chantal scared the crap out of me by calling me downstairs to inform me she went outside to let mozart out and there were flowers on the stoop, for Liana and Me. I immediately knew they were from Leah and laughed, but Chantal was convinced it was a french boy or at least an american, later when we told her it was our friend leah, who is in fact, a girl...she asked if that was normal...hahaha oh man.
There is no flow to this post at all, my thoughts are all over the place, but you guys will just have to deal with it, because I need to go to bed soon-ish. (probably won't happen) anyway. I asked Chantal where I can find a backpack, or a mall, or something, because I'd like to have one for the excursions and for spring break, and she answered me with another question..."what time are you two out of class tomorrow?" I was caught off guard by that so I couldn't remember, but I knew it was either 5 or 6, and so she said "okay, 6 o clock 2moro I'll take you two to the mall to find you a backpack."....wow. okay cool. So Chantal sort of rocks. I was expecting bus directions or something, but nope, I get my own personal french guide to help me find it.
Much of this post was about Chantal/host fam stuff. but it's cuz we talked with them a lot today, and I have to admit it made my day go a lot better.I am getting to know them better, and (slowly) overcoming my shyness with Chantal, so hopefully I'll feel more and more comfortable here as time goes on. (and hopefully less homesick)
love all of this! :)
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