Today's Seance

Our days at the school are pretty structured and follow the same basic timeline each day. In the morning, we have class, which is when we work on a certain lesson or two and play around with different variations of the structures we've learned. Sometime during the morning, we will have our lab, too. The morning is my favorite part of the day, because it moves very fast and is very challenging.

After lunch, we have a long "seance" that is different every day. Some days we listen to the news and try to figure out what they're saying. Some days, we talk about a "theme", like how to greet people and say goodbye, or what to say on the phone. They're always good, but they're slower than the morning and I'm usually tired by then, so they're not always the most exciting part of my day.

Today, though, was very interesting. We had a presentation on French cheeses. So for an hour and a half, we learned all about French cheeses. It was great. Aterwards, there were many cheeses to try and wine to go with them. I can't believe how much I learned in those 2 hours.

Our dinner last night was fun. Of course, the food and wine were delicious. It started at 7:30 and I didn't get home until 12:30, and I was eating during almost all 5 of those hours. Our cruise director prof, did in fact, play music with some of his friends for us. They did a cover of a Johnny Cash song (and I got it on video!), which was incredibly entertaining for me. One of the other students told me a funny story, which I'm going to try to retell here, hopefully I'll get it right. She was talking to another prof about the music and the prof asked her if she knew of "Johnny Liquide". It took the student awhile to figure out what she was talking about. Liquide is a word for "cash" in French, and the prof was momentarily confused about Johnny Cash's name.

We've had really bad weather for the last few days. I took a picture last night of the view from my terrace, but I don't have the cable today to upload it. We had a boat tour scheduled for tonight, but they canceled it; hopefully it will get rescheduled for next week (maybe when Amos is here!). But now, the sun finally came out and it looks like we'll have a nice evening after all.

Speaking of Amos, he gets here in exactly one week!!