School's Out For Summer........

It happened I passed my class!!! Now my head is stuffed full of French. So full that it is coming out my ears...but unfortunately not my mouth. I now can understand much more and if I repeat numbers over and over to myself I can puzzle them out. But this is not a good strategy for taking the bus because once I have it figured out ....it is gone! ;-)

I have a plan though, one of my fellow students who is continuing on to the next class can be hired to tutor me and it is the pronunciation I need to work on. He is Spanish so my French accent might wind up with a slightly Spanish sound but it will just have to do.

Now I am free to be a "femme de foyer" French for "Haus Frau" and "House Wife" As you can see by the photo above it is a very cute place.

The layout is a little weird. In the photo you see one of the stairways to one of the bedrooms, what you don't see is the other stairway to the other bedroom. Our kitchen is called "American Cusine" and I was told that it comes from Westerns where people stand at a bar. The kitchen has an eating bar but I thought the name came from standing and eating in the kitchen!

The other thing is the bathroom or "salle de bain", it is huge by French standards which consider a bathroom huge if you are NOT able to stretch your arms out and touch the walls. However instead of a shower this one has a huge soaking tub with a nice ledge that you can sit on and a hose spray shower faucet. Not sure what to call it, "Shoub" or "Tuwer", any way one of the best things about or visiting a hotel is being able to take a real, okay I'll say it, "American" shower-God we are getting old! I'll spare you any, "European Tales From the Digestion System". ;-D

But while we are on the subject, there is this myth that French can eat whatever they want (like duck gizzards and livers in their salads) and not get fat. So not true! In fact the American diet industry has gained a few foot holds here with both diet drugs and businesses like Weight Watchers. On my way to school their are two very chic shops that specialize in clothing for the larger femme which is not considered "grande" that means tall, but "grosse"

Plus they really are concerned with cellulite and you see lots of advertisements in the windows of pharmacies for the treatments using the firmest pair of legs I have ever seen any where. I'm thinking of trying it......

....of course, it will have to be scheduled between stints of cleaning the foyer.