Saturday, February 27, 2010

Day 49: J'ai étudié. Maintenant, je vais danser. / I studied. Now, I will dance.

Last night, I spent the night at a friend's house studying and then sleeping over.

The other day at dinner we had cooked spinach mixed in with pasta and salmon ( Yummy!). Claudie and Michel were talking about how little kids in France don't like spinach and asked me if it was the same. I told them the story about how my sister didn't like spinach. My mom told her that Dorothy's (from the Wizard of Oz, my sister's favorite person at the time) favorite food was spinach. So my sister started eating spinach. Claudie and Michel thought this was so cute! Claudie was trying to figure out who I meant my Dorothy. I didn't know how to translate the Wizard of Oz into french. I described it as a girl who walks down a path with a bunch of animals to visit someone. Not quite specific, but she got it. She remembered the name of it (after a couple minutes of struggle), which is "Dorothy et le Magicien d'Oz". She loved the movie with Judy Garland.

Anyway, last night for dinner we had fried eggs with tomatoes and then rice with vegetables (basically a stir fry) thing. Afterward, we broke out the chocolate covered cranberries and blueberries that my Mom and Dad sent me. I didn't know the translation for blueberries, but they ate them and tried them, and seemed to like them. Ultimately, they decided that blueberries were "cassis" which actually translates to "black currants". I have since researched and learned that the word for blueberry is "myrtille". Claudie and Michel are having me keep the chocolate covered items in my room because they said if I leave them in the kitchen they will eat all of them!

Also last night at dinner, Claudie mentioned a store in Paris that sells foods from all over the world. She was wondering if they might have "chocolate covered stuff" there, like what I brought/my parents sent. She also mentioned that there is a whole aisle of all different types of coffee, which she seemed very excited about. She said that she would look for the name of it for me and then if/when I go back to Paris, I can go there.

So last night, after watching part of a crime/mystery show called "Hollander," I went over to Mirel's and studied until about 1am. Then we fell asleep to watching the 3rd Harry Potter.

This morning we got up, got ready for the day, and went to Les Halles, the fruit/meat/vegetable/etc. market in Avignon (Place Pie). I can't wait to go back!!! Everything smells so delicious and it's a lot cheaper than at the local grocery store. I think I'll go back there after my "interview appointment" on Monday that I have for my visa. Yes, I have another appointment for visa stuff. I have to bring in all my paperwork proving my enrollment in a program, etc. But anyway, les Halles was AWESOME! We saw a guy playing guitar behind one of the stands. The vendors at the stand were selling oysters on the half shell with a taste test of white wine! Les Halles has a little bit of France, PA, and Cape Cod all rolled up into one!

Tonight is another salsa soirée! I'm super excited. Michel and Claudie get so excited talking about the soiree, their faces almost light up. They've been working really hard to fix up the theater. They put in new hard wood floors in the main theater area, repainted parts of the theater, etc.

À demain!

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