My head is full with French words and my tummy is full with French cheese. They know what they're doing alright. Our class recently did a field trip to the weekly market where you can buy clothes, handbags, CDs, lunch, cheese, salami, even rabbits or turkeys!! I got a 25og camembert for NZ$2.20. They sure know how to make the stuff!
All of France had a weekend of free entry into museums and chateaux. We'd been told that assume there's a cost to anything unless told otherwise. There's like a suburb of the city that's an old as city which has got a museum in it. It was amazing!! I saw Louis XV's chair and wardrobe. Hard for me to get my head around stuff that old, but for the Americans and Europeans I was with it was not such a big deal. Figured it's just cos NZ is so young. Incredible buildings all over town, not just that part of the city.
Yesterday we had a party for all of our neighbours, and we all had to bring some food from our own country. I decided on making a pav, but since I've never made one before I had a practice a few days before. Turned out pretty well, and all the other singles were stoked that I don't like cream so needed them to eat it up. I was speaking to another student the other day, she's from 1 of the southern states, and she couldn't understand me! It wasn't the words I was saying, just my kiwi accent. We got there eventually tho.
I enjoyed eating out recently, we'd just been taught in class about vocab needed for food and restaurants so we decided to go and practice. We went to a creperie, and flip it was good food. My main was mushroom, sausage, egg, and of course cheese all wrapped up in a crepe. The egg sounds bad but actually it tasted great. Would've been rude not to have dessert so I had raspberries with a hot chocolate sauce - awesome. And the stuff we'd learned in class was very helpful :)
