Embarrassing #1- My host mom had just called me and my host sister down for dinner. I took my time going down. I put on a sweater (cause its really cold okay) and then went to get my socks from the bathroom where they were drying after being washed. I think we all know how graceful I am, but even so I'm going to blame what happened next on the fact that my socks had just been washed (?). I start walking down the stairs, casually, and then next thing I know, I'm sitting on my butt sliding down the stairs. My host parents are like "OH MY GOD ARE YOU OKAY" and I'm like "yeah, yeah, um i just fell".
Embarrassing #2- This morning I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth and my sister tries to open the door (which was locked). So I say "Oui, je suis presque fini". I really hope she didn't hear me because what I said means "Yes, I'm almost dead". Then quieter I was like "I mean J'ai presque fini" (i have almost finished). And when I'm nervous or make a weird mistake in french I end up mixing languages. My host sister was probably really confused.
Embarrassing #3- I was sitting in Spanish, next to my friend Maxime. I said something about the chair ('chaise' in French) I don't remember exactly what I was saying. But instead of saying "chaise", I ended up talking about "chiasse" which is a French curse word for diarrhea... So now basically whenever he sees me, Maxime makes a joke about chiasse. Or he'll turn around to me in class, point to the chair and say "chiasse". At least I learned some new vocab.
General Updates:
-I'm forgetting how to spell... in English. Today in English class I had to ask the teacher how to spell maximum.
-My host family and I are leaving for Italy tomorrow. While everyone else has four more days of school, I'll be hanging out in Rome!
-I got invited to not one, but two parties this week. One is on Friday so I can't go :( and the next is in November :) and I'm excited for my first French party... And I think I'm having a New Year's party at my house? I made a joke about it one day at school with some friends and now I think it's probably going to happen. My host parents said a few weeks ago that if I wanted to have people over that its totally fine because they're going out. They're so very calm about everything and I love it.
-Since I have a two week (three weeks because Italy) they also said that they can go pick up Laura (Brazil), Tom (Belgium), and Catalina (Chile) and they can hang out at our house for a few days during the break.
-I went shopping for real for the first time i France on Saturday. My host mom took me and my host sister, Jeanne, to Angers to a "big" mall. There we crazy amounts of people there for not that many shops. When I went in International Mall in Tampa, I doubt there were that many people. There was a ginormous parking lot and a three story parking garage. COMPLETELY full. It took ten-fifteen minutes to get out of the parking garage and out of the parking lot because there was a really long line to the exit (which also happened to be on a one lane road the whole way across the parking lot). We then went into 'centre ville' Angers and got drinks at a cafe. Then on the way back home, we stopped at a boulangerie for a snack :)
-In American schools in French class, they teach you that 'limonade' is lemonade. Can I just take a moment to acknowledge how completely wrong that is? I ordered limonade the cafe in Angers and did NOT get lemonade. Limonade tastes like a mix of seltzer water and Sprite. It's good and all, but was really looking forward to some lemonade.
-Last week (or the week before, not really sure) on Wednesday after school, I stayed in Saumur with Tom, Cata, and Laura. We ate lunch at a kebab place. Also, I should mention that a kebab in France, and a kebab in America (what I always learned and ate) is completely different. In the US, a kebab (or shish kebab) is basically any kind of meat or vegetable that was put on a stick. A kebab in France is lamb meat. It is a specific type of meat seasoned a certain way. You can eat a kebab panini, or a kebab (you just say "I want a kebab" and you get some lamb meat in some type of bread with the sauce of your choice and fries), but if you want chicken in the sandwich, it's no longer a kebab. Please excuse my kebab rant.
-I am now a part of a musical group in my school. Its a club type thing that focuses on personal growth with your own music. We'll be writing music, collaborating with the other people, and performing three times throughout the year. Its not a band or anything, but I'm excited for it. Unfortunately, I may or may not know when the meetings are because when we had to give our number to the teacher running it, I unknowingly gave him the wrong number. I had been giving people the wrong number for the whole time I've been in France I'm pretty sure. Only last week did I figure this out.
T'is all :)
