A Brief Entry

Today has not been super great, for no reason in particular. It is just one of those days¹. So because I do not feel like writing a lot, I have decided to update in list form.

• Yesterday we watched an excellent German film (dubbed in French and with French subtitles, don't worry) called La vie des autres. In English, The Lives of Others. It was very, very good. Except for this one completely unneccessary sex scene with a really obese woman. Here is the trailer:
• Last night we also ate the most amazing dish: Salmon and ravioli casserole. I do not even know how to describe it, because I know it sounds gross. But it was delicious. So, so good.
  
• I hate clicky retractable pens. They should be outlawed. People should not be allowed to use clicky pens in class. Ever.
  
• A South Korean/French guy (not quite sure) asked me if I would be interested in teaching his 11 year old daughter English. I gave him my e-mail address, so hopefully that pan out.
  
• 10 hours a week with the same people really starts to get to you. I am starting to find things that I hate about more and more people in my Travaux Practiques class. On the other hand, I did make a new friend in it today, which was exciting. I'm all about the making friends thing.
• Also...8h30 class four days a week is not fun. I am not a fan.
  
• Tomorrow I am meeting my Integre language partner! Very exciting. I will let you know how it goes.
  

¹ I need to learn how to say this in French. I have been out shopping and dropped all my stuff at least three times now and these French people have just kind of stared at me. And so I start to do what I would aux Etats-Unis: I give a self-deprecating smile, shrug and then...I freeze, because I realize I have no idea how to say "one of those days". I end up standing there with this goofy look on my face and this group of French people watching me, waiting for me to say something. It's very uncomfortable.