A party, a test, and some photos

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Okay, 13 days is a bit more than a week, but I'm putting up a couple photos this time!

In the order that they're written above:

There was no particular reason to have a party, except that everybody felt like it. As I understood it, Jessie wanted to see her friends from Gigny (all of whom actually live in Ile-de-France), so Delphine and Michel decided to host a party for all their Parisian friends who have second homes in Gigny (who happen to be the parents of Jessie's friends. People showed up between 6 and 8PM, but no one started to eat until 9 or 10. Everybody brought some food, and the main event was this thing called raclette. You melt cheese, then pour it on pieces of bread, or potatos, or meat (which was what people had brought. Jessie and the teens, except me, hid in her room except when they came out to eat. I got kidnapped and interrogated by the adults.

The food was good-desert was fantastic-chocolate mousse, chocolate pie, and a couple of things that I don't know the name of, and everyone had some of everything, in very, very small portions. Between dinner and desert, there was music. Some of the music was pretty good. All of it was kind of bizarre, but people were having fun. I gave up and went to sleep around 1AM. I'm told that the party kept going until 3AM.

A test: Just for practice, and to avoid the jealosy of my classmates, I took a four-hour "bac blanc". We were given extracts from three different sixteenth-century texts and had to write two different types of essays on them. I only finished one, but I managed to write clearly enough that the teacher actually gave me comments this time, not just spelling and grammar corrections! One of the things that we don't do is write papers or learn a long editing process. This has been frustrating because I haven't been doing so well with the writing style (essentially the same essay format, but I'm missing some of the big grammar conventions, I think. For exemple, a decent sentence in French seems to be a run-on in English), but I'm feeling better about my writing now.

Pictures: so these are old, but I needed to put up some pictures of the family.

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Photos

Dinner
Us at dinner, sometime in October

dinner again
Another photo from October, Delphine's mother has the camera.

clara
Clara in Gigny

alex
Alex in Gigny

Comments

[thea]

charlotte those children are EXCEEDINGLY adorable and needless to say i am quite jealous. we all miss you vair much, by the way.