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| pique-nique in the public garden |
Since I have no class on Fridays, Karina and I took a long run/walk along the quais and explored the Saint-Michel neighborhood, where there’s yet another farmers/flea market a few days a week. That part of town reminded me of Montmartre in Paris - which was one of my favorite places when we visited there – with all these small food and trinket vendors lining the streets. There were also soo many bargain stores down there that sell everything from shoes and bags to middle-eastern style dresses and even middle-eastern goods shops! Karina and I might have found our Halloween costumes for this year…Later I cooked dinner for about 3 hours with Isabelle, and everything turned out fantastic! I’m gradually learning cooking and ingredients terms in french, which is like learning yet another language in itself! We made a salmon and crème fraiche tart with veggies for the main course and an apple cake (which didn’t turn out magnificent but the apples tasted great!). With the apple cake I’m pretty sure I messed it up because I didn’t understand the ingredients or the instructions too well…oops!
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| outside the grand théâtre |
On Saturday all the Middlebury kids had to take an exam at the Alliance Français – basically to make sure we’re competent enough to stay here and survive on the amount of French we know and can speak. Afterwards, we all went to the supermarket Auchan, which is essentially a combination of the biggest grocery store you’ve ever been in on the first floor, a continuation of the grocery store plus a bed bath and beyond on the second floor, and then a best buy on the third floor! It was MASSIVE and extremely overwhelming, especially because it was packed since everyone was doing their shopping on the weekend.
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| grand théâtre |
Today it was beautiful and we had a
pique-nique at the public garden with all the Midd kids and our
maîtres, the three girls who are basically our ‘guardian angels’ while we’re here. They organize a bunch of cultural activities for us to do together, and they’re there if we ever need to ask them anything about the city, school, or just adjusting abroad. Most everyone was super original (not) and brought baguettes and cheese to the
pique-nique, so thinking ahead I decided to bring something extremely American – popcorn! Afterwards we took yet another guided tour of the city (these are becoming extremely pointless and annoying because we’ve all been here for about 3 weeks and essentially know where all the major sights are). But this time we visited inside the
Grand Théâtre, which was stunningly beautiful! Then this afternoon I made my famous blondies with toasted coconut, white and milk chocolate, and added toasted hazelnuts this time. Everyone absolutely devoured them! Guess I didn’t mess up the ingredients or measurements completely this time!
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| inside the grand théâtre |
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