We are all giggly little school girls deep inside
Good arternoon, gentlemen (with a super brittish accent, of course)
I woke up in the middle of night from the enormous goose bumps running all over my body and shaking me to the core. I had not closed the balcony door before I went to bed and instead of a cover I only used a sheet. It had been so hot when I fell asleep! But this place is no different than Sweden when it comes to the cold nights.
After dressing in the morning (I picked out a white summer dress, brown heels, brown purse, purple earrings, purple and silver bracelets and a perl neckless), I had some breakfast with my hostess. I ate french cheese youghurt with cereal and drank a glass of milk and a glass of orange juice. I totally understand why you want to know what I ate for breakfast, it is a very interesting and important topic. In fact, the destiny of the whole world depends on it...
Anyway... My hostess was kind enough to follow me to she school by the tramway. It is like a slow going train which goens on the same road as the cars and busses but on a little railway. Alors, this way I managed to get to school without getting lost. The school is situated in a central part of Nice. It lies in a modern building with many floors. Here in France they say first floor when they talk about the second floor and so an. So the cafeteria is situated on the fourht floor. Basically, I have walked a lot of stairs today!
The principal, who speeks Russian (!), met all the new students and he and an other teacher gave us a written test. While we worked on that, we were called out one at a time to be judged on a camel market. That is, take the oral test which determined which level our French is at and what group to put us in.
They decided this Rantalicious camel is a mediocre one and placed me in on a middle level called B1. Though I hate being seen as "pas mal" (translation "not bad"), a phrase which the principal repeated at least four times in the duration of less than a minute, might I add, it turned out to be a really great group with some special perks and advantages. For example I have the morning off all week this week!
Because of the unexpected freedom, I decided to come with some other students who also had the morning off to the old part of Nice, in french called Vieille Nice. We were a group of six girls and our guide was a cute boy. Yes, you read it right. A cute boy ;) But more about boys later! I have used all the languages I know today, which are Swedish, Russian, English and French. Why? Because one of the girls, named Angeline, is Russian and another one, named Matilda, is Swedish. I know that before I left Sweden I said that if I would meed any Swedish people I would turn aroud right away and MAKE A RUN FOR IT (nothing bad about my country men and women, but talking Swedish in France would totally mess up my French learning), but to be honest, it feels good to have someone from the same country as myself when I am so far from home.
Anyway, it was a really nice walk too, which surprised me a lot since I wore heals! We saw a lot of small churches, visited a little museum, ate ice cream and walked a lot of stairs to get to a view point. What an amazing view! I will upload pictures soon :)
We got our food at a supermarket. I proposed the girls that everyone buy different stuff and then share with eachother. So we had baguette, cheese camembert, youghurt and fruit. It was really good but we had to hurry a lot to get to class. Besides, we didn't have a knife for the cheese so we used the wooden pack from the cheese itself XD
Our class started at 13h 15 and we got there just in time. During the lesson we just talked a lot about our family and relatives and physical appearence and we did one listening exercise. Frankly, I think it's a little too easy and I don't feel challenged at all. At the same time I really like my group! I feel "dilemmed". I will stay in this group for a few days to give it a try, and if the level of learning doesn't evolve, I will have to go to the principal and change camel :)
Now, class is over and I have been occupying the only really good computer in the little computer room for about one and a half hour. It takes a lot of time to get used to foreigh keyboards! I will be going home in a few minutes but first I want to tell you about my plan for tomorrow morning. I'm going to the beach! SUCK ON THAT! ;)
Bye now
xoxo Milena
I woke up in the middle of night from the enormous goose bumps running all over my body and shaking me to the core. I had not closed the balcony door before I went to bed and instead of a cover I only used a sheet. It had been so hot when I fell asleep! But this place is no different than Sweden when it comes to the cold nights.
After dressing in the morning (I picked out a white summer dress, brown heels, brown purse, purple earrings, purple and silver bracelets and a perl neckless), I had some breakfast with my hostess. I ate french cheese youghurt with cereal and drank a glass of milk and a glass of orange juice. I totally understand why you want to know what I ate for breakfast, it is a very interesting and important topic. In fact, the destiny of the whole world depends on it...
Anyway... My hostess was kind enough to follow me to she school by the tramway. It is like a slow going train which goens on the same road as the cars and busses but on a little railway. Alors, this way I managed to get to school without getting lost. The school is situated in a central part of Nice. It lies in a modern building with many floors. Here in France they say first floor when they talk about the second floor and so an. So the cafeteria is situated on the fourht floor. Basically, I have walked a lot of stairs today!
The principal, who speeks Russian (!), met all the new students and he and an other teacher gave us a written test. While we worked on that, we were called out one at a time to be judged on a camel market. That is, take the oral test which determined which level our French is at and what group to put us in.
They decided this Rantalicious camel is a mediocre one and placed me in on a middle level called B1. Though I hate being seen as "pas mal" (translation "not bad"), a phrase which the principal repeated at least four times in the duration of less than a minute, might I add, it turned out to be a really great group with some special perks and advantages. For example I have the morning off all week this week!
Because of the unexpected freedom, I decided to come with some other students who also had the morning off to the old part of Nice, in french called Vieille Nice. We were a group of six girls and our guide was a cute boy. Yes, you read it right. A cute boy ;) But more about boys later! I have used all the languages I know today, which are Swedish, Russian, English and French. Why? Because one of the girls, named Angeline, is Russian and another one, named Matilda, is Swedish. I know that before I left Sweden I said that if I would meed any Swedish people I would turn aroud right away and MAKE A RUN FOR IT (nothing bad about my country men and women, but talking Swedish in France would totally mess up my French learning), but to be honest, it feels good to have someone from the same country as myself when I am so far from home.
Anyway, it was a really nice walk too, which surprised me a lot since I wore heals! We saw a lot of small churches, visited a little museum, ate ice cream and walked a lot of stairs to get to a view point. What an amazing view! I will upload pictures soon :)
We got our food at a supermarket. I proposed the girls that everyone buy different stuff and then share with eachother. So we had baguette, cheese camembert, youghurt and fruit. It was really good but we had to hurry a lot to get to class. Besides, we didn't have a knife for the cheese so we used the wooden pack from the cheese itself XD
Our class started at 13h 15 and we got there just in time. During the lesson we just talked a lot about our family and relatives and physical appearence and we did one listening exercise. Frankly, I think it's a little too easy and I don't feel challenged at all. At the same time I really like my group! I feel "dilemmed". I will stay in this group for a few days to give it a try, and if the level of learning doesn't evolve, I will have to go to the principal and change camel :)
Now, class is over and I have been occupying the only really good computer in the little computer room for about one and a half hour. It takes a lot of time to get used to foreigh keyboards! I will be going home in a few minutes but first I want to tell you about my plan for tomorrow morning. I'm going to the beach! SUCK ON THAT! ;)
Bye now
xoxo Milena
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Postat av: Samina
"I will upload pictures soon :)"
YAAAY :D Waiting! Wait.. why am I speakin english? 8)
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