My host mom is always concerned and asking me if I’m okay
because she says that the first few days before classes start can be boring
because there’s more alone time, but I tell her not to worry. I’m perfectly
fine. I’m in France! No complaints whatsoever. Even if I’m just sitting on a
couch relaxing... I’m still sitting on a couch in France! I’ll take it! Lol
So today I opened my bank account in France. My host mom went with me, because of course
it would all go down in French. The lady at the bank who we had an appointment
with knew very little English and some Spanish so she asked me which I would
prefer and I told her it was her choice. She went with Spanish because she says
she knows it better. It was her first time opening a bank account for someone
so her co-worker was there to help her. Overall, it went really well and it was
cool. In order to make deposits, I’ll have to do them in person, but they were
all very personable, even with a foreigner like me. They were really nice. The
lady would say things in French with my host mom and I would pick up on some
stuff, but she then would tell me in Spanish. She said she enjoyed practicing
Spanish. I told her that anytime I come in to make a deposit, we would practice
it together. Anyway, I’ll be getting my bankcard sometime next week. I can’t
wait for it because it will make purchasing things in France soooo much easier!
I got in touch with my French school. They kept sending me
emails reminding me to take my French placement test online, but I already took
it twice! I emailed them asking them if I had to do it a third time. They got
back to me and said that they found my exam results and for some reason they hadn’t
received a notification. I’ll be taking my oral exam tomorrow and after that
they should let me know what level I fit in and I can then choose the days and
times of my classes! Yay! I’m so excited. I’ll also probably get my student ID
tomorrow. I can’t wait because then this means I can get the ImagineR Navigo
(which for those of you who don’t know, the Navigo is a transit card). ImagineR
is for students, but I need my student ID card in order to get it.
I drove again today, all on my own this time. It went very
well. I went to Carrefour to buy some more hangers… (lol, my host mom would
think I’m crazy if she knew). My host mom gave me some hangers, and told me that
if I needed more to tell her. When I told her I needed more, she did so. Then
she noticed I still needed more, so she gave me more. She asked me if I still
needed some more, but at this point I was feeling embarrassed that I told her
no, but truth is Yes! I did need more, but I didn’t want to tell her, I figured
at some point I would sneak away and secretly buy some more. So I finally got
to do that today. I also bought a kind
of duffel bag so that I can use to travel on weekends. I also bought some other
random things. The other awesome thing I bought was the fruity Mentos gum that
I was obsessed with last year. I even brought some back with me to the States,
but it didn’t last long. We don’t have it in the States and I don’t know if we
ever will. It’s just sooo juicy and good. I’m a gum addict; don’t judge me (my
mom would not be proud of me right now).
Oh! I got a side job! On Wednesday’s I will teach a little
girl English. She’s 11, and she’s the sister of Lucas’ best friend.
Lucas had his best friend over yesterday afternoon. The little boy’s mom met
me, and well she later spoke to my host mom and asked if I would be interested
in teaching her daughter English. My host mom seems to have figured me out already
because she said yes before she had even told me about it. Of course, when she
told me about it, I said yes. It should be easy, the little girl actually wants
to learn English and she’s in her second year of English classes at school.
I’ll see on Wednesday what she knows, and from there figure out where to start.
I’m excited. Lucas mentioned that he would like to learn English from me,
but I told him that I try, but he never seems to want to learn. He then said
that we need to make a game so that it’s fun to learn. He says he doesn’t want
to learn from a chalk board, and I totally get him. Today we played with Legos. Yesterday we also
played with Legos and it was fun. I’m still a little kid at heart. His mom
thanked me for playing with him, saying that he was really happy and that it
also makes her happy. Dude, playing Legos is fun for me. So today we played
Legos again, we’ve been making castles with guards and super cool stuff. He’s
got quite a collection of Legos.
At some point today, I asked him if he wanted to surprise
his mom with an English sentence today. I taught him to say “Thank you mom!
Dinner was delicious”. He learned to say that, and then he also surprised me by
trying to say in English “Thank you for playing Legos with me”. I was totally
caught of guard and thought it was adorable! He didn’t say it perfect, but he
attempted it and I understood what he was trying to say. That’s what really
matters. He even asked me to correct him! <3
As always, we had another awesome dinner. We just have the
best and fun conversations when we’re all together. It’s really nice. I’ve
never been used to sitting together as a family. We don’t do it very often in
my house in Miami, but here it’s very common and I absolutely love it. I would
love to say that I’ll try to continue doing this when I go back to Miami, but I
know the schedule with my mom doesn’t always permit it. She comes home so tired
from work that all she wants to do is lay down on the couch and relax, and I
don’t blame her at all!
Anyway this has become too long of a post. I’m going to cut
it off here.
*Pas du tout: Not at all
*Pas du tout: Not at all
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