Day 34

Day 34:

Thursday, April 23, 2009: Today, we had four hours of oral grammar because the creative writing teacher is out of town. Next week we will have four hours of creative writing so it evens out.

We started with an exercise about expressions like: “I’m as hungry as a horse,” or “I have a frog in my throat.” For that, the French say: “I have a cat in my throat.” So that was what we talked about. We also talked about the levels of slang too.

After class, I went to the university library with Lance to use the internet. It turns out that on Monday they voted to keep the university open for the week and have spring break as scheduled next week. So we could have had classes here this week. I uploaded a bunch of pics and videos onto Facebook.

Then, I had my journal meeting with Katy. I walked to the wrong place and was late. Then we had class again. This time, two groups had presentations. Zoe and Sakinah talked about an MC Solaar song and Rachel talked about a Canadian song. After listening to both, we go through line-by-line and discover the slang and colloquial words that are used in them.

Before class, I talked to Christophe about missing class to spend time with my family in Nice. He approved my request. Katy told me it was against the rules and that I needed to talk to Christophe about it; he had no problem. Then I asked if he could suggest a hotel because Katy told me that he lived there for two years.

His first suggestion was 200E/night; probably a little high for our price range. The second place is an apartment rented by a family. It is all done by word of mouth; they have no website. He gave me the phone number and told me it was worth a shot so after class, I went to Melissa’s with Lance and Meghan and I Skyped to reserve a room. The room for my family has two beds, a bathroom, and a kitchenette a block from the sea for 100E/night! While I was on the phone with the woman, I asked her about another room for Meghan, Melissa, and Lance. They got the same room as us for 25E/person/night. It was really weird because the lady made our reservation without even taking my name or credit card number. She gave me the address and said see you soon.

So then I Skyped my mom and grandma and told them that it was taken care of. I went home and we had dinner. Afterwards, Melissa, Meghan, and I went to Lance’s and Kelby had a bunch of people over and we had a party before going to the club. There were probably ten people there. At the club, it was there anniversary night party so it was really fun. They had an energy drink company there with free samples and they were giving away a bunch of free stuff. I got a messenger bag.

(Google MC Solaar)