First week of classes is over! Only three more left, though I don’t want to make it sound like a bad thing. I’ve definitely enjoyed being at the Institut de Touraine so far. Our classes are pretty cool. In French language, we read and analyzed a short story by a French author I’d never heard of before, discussed all possible themes (you wouldn’t believe how many we actually came up with-ugh!), presented them before the class, and then had a test on it on Friday-all in a week’s work! It all wasn’t too bad. I didn’t really enjoy the story too much, because it was about the Orient, and that’s not exactly my favorite genre of literature, but all the analysis in French was really useful and was good practice! Phonetics class is fun too, because we get to speak into these headsets and playback what we said, which is really weird. I don’t even think I’ve really ever listened to a recording of myself in English, or at least not for a long time!
Probably my favorite class is Civilization-the teacher is great, and I think we’re really going to get a better grasp on French culture in the 10 hours we have together over these four weeks.
We’ve been having fun outside of class too. I’ve been running a bit, though not as much as I’d like-that’ll have to start back up again when I get home to get in shape for the MCM again in October. A few of us have also been out to a park nearby to play basketball, and we’ve gotten to successfully defend the American prowess in streetball against some French teenagers we met there (probably because we had a 6’5’’ kid from LA, but we all played our part-as for me, these French kids now know what lock-down defense is, hahaha!) We’ve also made friends with other students at the Institut too, especially with the big group from Michigan State, who we go and hang out with at night sometimes. We’ve even been to a few movies, including Ice Age 3 in 3D (which I took my French bro to with some of the other Gtown girls, all of whom thought he was adorable; that was a good movie for us to see too, because it was easy to comprehend the language, which can be a bit fast sometimes on TV and in movies) as well as Public Enemies, which was great!
All in all, a great week so far!
Peace
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