Hey everybody! Sorry for not posting sooner, it's been a bit of a rough week! In case you haven't noticed, I don't talk about school a super duper amount. It's not because i dislike it. i literally love my french professor more than i can even say. Oh Dominique. but this week they laid it on hard. i had three tests. and let me tell you, 6 weeks of not really having a ton of homework and absolutely no tests, takes a big chunk out of your drive to study. so it was challenging to say the least to try and study for three major tests. i managed to study some, but not to the extent i wanted. my first test was in my european union class and that was an essay response. with a major of environmental studies and french, it's been a while since i thought about life in a political science sort of view. so that was a fairly scattered essay response but i think that i managed to do alright. that professor, professor horton is awesome as well. he's british, and the class is my only class in english, but he sticks french in at the weirdest points possible. instead of pausing in his lecturing or saying umm or anything he says "bon" which is french for "well". and he does it a lot. it's slightly hilarious. next test was in my Vocabulary class. which i had missed the week before because of a strike that stopped all the trams and because i live a 35 minute tram ride away from school, there was no way for me to get there. which actually was really fun cause my friend sara and i were both unaware of the strike and live in the same area so once we realized there was no way to get anywhere, we went shopping and out to lunch. it was a lovely strike day even though it was really really really annoying at first. grenoble literally shuts down when strikes occur. and they literally strike right in the tram lines so there's no getting anywhere. but back to the test, it was hard, not a fun test at all. luckily i don't think it counts for anything really, it is more of a seeing where you're at sort of test. but that's still bad. last but not least, my french grammar test. that was a fun one. none of you who don't speak french will understand what i mean when i say this but oh my god, the passive tense is a horrible invention! it's illogical to me! it's so hard to try and think of the passive tense in english because i am sure that if i do use it that i use it without even being aware of it. and the passive tense in french is so hard for me for some reason. the formation is easy enough, it's just when to use it that is the pain in the butt. but it was fine overall, listened to one of our french songs whilst studying. i'll see if i can post a link to one of the songs that we learned in french class. go to this link---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYAxH1elgjs and watch it. it's seriously awesome!! this is why i love Dominique. because he will teach us via strange french songs. it's a listening comprehension exercise! i just call it awesome. i have a playlist on my computer entitled Dominique. it's great.
So yeah, that was my test week, french style. not the funnest thing i have ever done but i've got a great weekend ahead of me so it's all good! i've got cheese tasting this afternoon, wine tasting festival all weekend in Victor Hugo park, rugby match on sunday, and just all the other fun adventures i am sure will happen this weekend! i also had a cooking class this week which was really really fun. made chocolate volcano cake. soooooo good. i love french cuisine.
so with that, i am going to go back to bed and take a nap and hopefully sleep off the cold i have. because if i can't sleep it off it means i have to go to the pharmacy and try and explain in french what is wrong with me. which i frankly don't feel like trying to do, cause lord knows what i could end up with! i've been chugging the orange juice, so hopefully the vitamin C will kick in soon! i'm missing my parents right now and their supply of TLC. so when you read this mom and dad, if you guys could fly to france with some sore throat meds that would be great thanks!
i hope you all have excellent weekends and check in soon for some pictures from this weekend! Ciao!
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