Jill ne sais quoi

I am not sure why I am up so early. I remember my alarm going off, but apparently I was hallucinating. I woke up, got dressed and washed my face, came back into the room and saw that it was 6h20, not 7h20. My alarm is still set to go off at 7h10. I am so confused. But now I'm awake, so might as well update the blog.

Yesterday was pretty great. It was rainy and gross and I had 6 hours of class, but whatever. My Travaux Practiques professor and I are like BFFLs now, I don't know why but we just get along really well. At my mid-semester check-in, Marie-Eve was shocked when I told her that I really liked my professor because apparently all students in the past years have said that she's really strict and kind of mean. I don't see that at all. She was so concerned for my health yesterday, she opened the window in the room and then saw that I was sitting there and was like, "Oh no! You're sick, we don't want to make it worse!" and she shut it. I feel like if you come to class every day, do the work, participate and just generally be nice, she'll like you/be very concerned about your health when you miss class.

Also in Travaux Practiques, Julia and I sat with one of the girls from China, qui s'appele Yu. She taught us how to write our names in Chinese and also she made us little Chinese phrase sheets. It was pretty cool.

After classes, I went to the BU office to drop off some stuff for our projects and to pick up the weekly newsletter. I hung around there for a bit and chatted with Canaan, the program assistant, about eating bone marrow and oysters.

Then I went to tutoring, which was fun. Ha-jeong is being tested on the numbers 1-20, so we did some dictation exercises with ces chiffres. Then she showed me the Christmas catalog, which is basically the Toys R'Us wishbook but French-style. It was awesome! There are some sweet-looking toys out there!

After tutoring, I ate dinner with the family. We had salad and then these two Chinese dishes, one with chicken and one with pork and they were delicious. I asked Boo-young (Mme Park) for the recipe, and she was so excited. Everyone was really impressed that I could eat with chopsticks (thanks, Dyer family!). Then for dessert we had yogurt. We sat at the table for a while, chatting and it was just really nice. The family is great and it's so different to eat dinner with them because I'm so used to the quiet dinner with Christine and Claude. It's a completely different feeling to eat with the kids. It's like being a part of an actual family here. I mean, I'm really happy in this house, and I'm grateful that Claude and Christine give us a lot of independence, but sometimes I think I would enjoy it more if I were living in a house with kids. But then I probably wouldn't be living with Sam, and what would I do without her?!