30 October 2007

Objectif proof that my French is improving...




is that I just talked to Faima on the phone, and I probably understood 70 or maybe even 75% of what she said, instead of 30%!! I'm so excited, I'll actually not embarass myself when I see her, I'll probably even be able to understand most of it! Yay! (I'm going to see her on the 10th of November.)

Yesterday it was raining, which didn't really motivate me to get to the library, but I did it anyway and was there for a really long time. It's really nice, because there's enough people there that when you get too tired, you can take a break and people watch without leaving your seat. I read a lot about intellectuels during the Dreyfus affair, which is surprisingly interesting! I think I might go back Thursday (yes, I am that nerd who is using her vacations to get ahead in her studies...) and try some more history of rock books, since evidently I don't have class because it's a holiday. But we'll see, I might take a holiday too...

Today was SO SUCCESSFUL, I went to the Prefecture and came out with a Recipissee! Which means 'This is proof that I turned in my documents and am now waiting another month before I will have the real carte de sejour.' I was supposed to have the appointment at 10, but I went at 9 because I wasn't sure if I was going to have to wait in line...it took me till 10:30 anyway!!! I'm not actually joking about the month thing, it's really not going to be ready until after December 3rd...as long as all the documents are okay, which they may not be since my name is actually spelled with one L on the attestation d'hebergement. I didn't say anything, I hope they won't notice...we'll see! I've heard that it takes three times to do anything administrative in France, and if things go well...then yes, it'll have taken me three times to get the thing. Actually, I wondered, the first time I went in there, why all the other people knew what was going on and didn't have to ask for help...now I can understand that it's because they've all been there probably twice before!

I met this other TA girl there who said I'm going to need to translate my birth certificate for the health insurance people, I'll have to look into that further because the translation thing doesn't sound like much fun...

Afterward, I met Anne and we went to Maisons-Lafitte to visit Jean-Francois, it was really nice! He made us lunch and stuff and took us around the town a little. It was nice, it's a nice suburb and fairly bourgeois, according to him. His house was really, really nice, his family lived in China for a while so they have all kinds of amazing Chinese furniture and pottery and everything. He's such a funny guy, he went through a goth period in high school and kept everything from it, he was showing us today...it was very romantic goth, so lots of lace and really wacky jewelry. He's so serious about it too, but he's making fun of himself. I don't know quite how to describe it, but it was really entertaining. Now he's studying 'naturopathy,' natural healing stuff, and he does a lot of yoga and is studying plants and energies and stuff like that. Anne asked if he went straight from being goth to being a yog-ist, evidently there was a transition in there somewhere. Either way I really enjoy hanging out with him.

I came back with Anne, I took the 14 line metro, it's electric and runs with no driver, it was strange. There was an abnormally large number of businessmen there. I am trying to get some homework done, but of course blogs are more interesting than homework so I'm doing this instead...but now I should really go read, so a toute a l'heure!

P.S. The top picture is Escalier F, Prefecture de Paris, where you go for your titres de sejour. The other picture's from Maisons Lafitte.

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