Yesterday was a busy, busy day. First we start with French class, then French and the World lit class, break for lunch, Leonardo Da Vinci art class, and my last class Expatriate Writers. But we're not done yet, after expats I have film club, then a chateau meeting. After the meeting we had dinner with Michele (more on that later). Finally we end my day with a trip to Montrichard to see "The King's Speech" (which was excellent I must say). So lets see, we started at 7 am, and after harassing my mom with an IM convo, I got to bed at 1 am.... Good times....
Anywho (does that sound as cheesy to you as it does in my head?), dinner with Michele and Michelle. They live across from the Abbey and fix dinner occasionally for the students. Last night two of the chateaux had dinner there, the other two have dinner tonight. Dinner was excellent, at least the parts I ate, everyone raved about the chicken, so it must've been good too. The first course was a tomato and onion salad. Fresh, very delicious tomatoes, way better than what passes for a tomato in the states (see carrot post earlier). Next was the main course, chicken with coucous, garbanzo beans (chickpeas if you must), and vegetables that I'm pretty sure were cooked with the chicken. And then dessert, yogurt with raspberries. It was fun hanging out with Michele, and the other students. We would have spent more time there, but we didn't want to miss the movie...
Only a few of us went to the movie, but what an experience! I'm going to transcribe here what I put in my journal for French class, because, well it was going to be the same thing anyway...
I went to the movie theater in Montrichard today. It is completely different from the theaters in America. First off, it was clean; no gum under the seats, no sticky floors, no ripped wallpaper. At home even the newest theaters look horrible, in no time they are trashed. Next the seats, wonderful, glorious, cushioned seats. Seriously, the most cushy red velvet seats in the world. You just don't get that at home. Apart from the theater, the audience was different. Not a peep during the movie. When people come in they filled the seats. In America people usually leave space between groups, and sit as far apart as possible, unless nothing else is available. Here it seems as though you fill every empty space and leave entire rows empty.
It was kind of amusing actually... A couple of people in our group went to le toilettes before the show started, and before they got back we had to shoo two different groups away from their seats.We left Jess and Jamie at the theater (they didn't go with us, we didn't know they needed a ride back) and had to turn around to get them. Fortunately Montrichard and Pontlevoy are only a few minutes apart, so they didn't have to stand on the street corner for long.
I'm working backwards here... Our second film club meeting was yesterday. We had a good turn out last week, but only a few of us came back. I don't know if people forgot, or just weren't interested... It doesn't really matter, whatever floats your boat. I want to be a director, so learning some skills now will be helpful in the future. And of course this won't feel like a wasted semester (not that it did before, this was one of the best decisions of my life (like I've made so many)). Well I shouldn't say it anyway, since I'm taking two English courses and that is my minor. Yeah Radio/Television major with an English minor, that makes sense... Actually, it does if you think about all of the great pieces of literature that have inspired movie and television (how many Romeo and Juilet movies are there?). So, back to film club... My project... I'm going to do a documentary on Abbey life... Still just in the idea stage, pulling thoughts out of the air, but I will (hopefully) have a film before the end of the semester. And not to ruin the suprise, but this is a 1000 year old Abbey, it is bound to be haunted...
Mountains, that is in my title of this post... Why? Umm, maybe because we are going to the Alps this weekend.... I'm not a skier, and don't want to break a leg the second weekend I'm here, so I'm not gonna try skiing. But, never fear, no ski lodge bunny here, instead a bunch of us are going on a glacier walk! I know it's going to be cool (ice right...), and will have pictures... I promise they are coming, my card reader is in the mail...
Tomorrow is going to be another busy day. Class all day, then a geo-politics lecture, then a bbq, then we get on the bus at 4 am. Quite a few people are already saying pull an all nighter, and sleep on the way to Chamonix (in the Alps, if you hadn't guessed). I don't know about an all nighter, I do those even without a 4 am wake up call...
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