Claude

Classes....if french class could be like this everyday I would not dislike going to French as often.

Everyone in my class is pretty much at the same level. We understand everything our prof says and we know most of the grammatical things...but have a difficult time speaking it.

The most adorable little french man is our professor. He is named Claude and likes to interpretive dance when explaining things.

I have never felt more comfortable in a French class. I'm not the most comfortable with speaking it and speaking up in class but being here just makes me WANT to do it and then go practice as much as possible. I like the way they teach because he helps you through it and MAKES you think in French just by saying "you are not allowed English so if you don't know how to say something...figure it out in another way." I love that because it does make you think en Francais.

There are about 14 people in my class, one Australian and one from a different abroad program but everyone else is AIFS (American Institute for Foreign Study). I have met a lot of people from around the world including Italy, Japan, Bermuda, Canada, and Brazil. The majority of the french students here are studying Journalism and have classes from 8am-6pm everyday!

My roommates and I are going to the gymnase (aka fitness center) down a few blocks and are going to sign up for some classes to get us moving a little. I think it would be AWESOME to take a fitness class en Francais. We have the afternoons past 1pm to ourselves to do what we wish so a lot of day trips can happen.

I do hope the weather gets better. Apparently the rain is not normal for here and it should be clearing up soon?! It's also the last week for soldes (sales) in the shops so after that everything gets really expensive again.

I am not used to being back in classes, but it seems so much more fun to go to because we are here! I actually am looking forward to homework...believe it or not!

My last couple of posts were rather long and I don't think they will be that long all the time, now that I am getting my basic schedule down, but I do want to try and update this at least every couple days.

Off to the gymnase, 3pm crepe date, devoirs (hw) and then dinner with the group late.
a demain!