Fireworks were amazing last night! There’s an international competition going on and Italy was competing last night. Apparently it was the best one so far. The pre-show Beaver Tail was delicious (a pastry with toppings; I chose chocolate, reeses pieces and peanut butter). Yumsies!
This morning’s class starts out with the rest of the student presentations, so we learn about Equador, Brazil, D.C. and Windsor, ON. Everyone stays to their time limit, thank the gods. Next our prof does a multimedia presentation about the history of Quebec and the French in Canada, and it’s actually pretty interesting. She plays some songs with different French accents and some trailers for a couple popular French movies. Still haven’t seen Polytechnique but I will definitely check it out when I get home. Yay, no grammar lesson today. We have another quiz tomorrow though, boooo.
The afternoon conversation workshop is better than usual, though still not terribly helpful. We’re given a couple words and have to come up with a story that includes them and then the other students try to guess what our words were. It goes well, though some people come up with stories that are much more elaborate than necessary. It’s still hard to understand French with a Spanish accent. They actually speak better than I do but I’m really not accustomed to the Spanish language. Just when I think I’m doing well with my French another language starts playing with my head!
I was talking with one of my classmates and he has the most amazing job I’ve ever heard of. He’s a rich guy’s assistant and he gets to travel around the world to look after the amazing properties (and gets to stay for weeks at a time). The rich guy is an interior designer from Montreal. He showed us pictures of one of the properties in Mexico and it looks like it’s straight out of a magazine; beachfront, infinity pool, impeccable design (naturally). Unbelievable!
I’m off to do a bit of shopping; a group from school is going to a fancy nightclub tomorrow night so I must buy some appropriate shoes.
