Darcy's Paris Blog

French class pour deux

Work -- only notable thing was that I went to La Defense, considered the business district, for a tradeshow in the afternoon. Good times.

Another round of French class. This time was harder, since there were only 2 of us. I think the Canadian woman might've thought we were draggin' her down after her 5 hours a day of French grammar at the Sorbonne. Not sure what happened to the Germany guy -- either he didn't make it from work in time, or he was just too lost and gave up. It's a toss-up. So just having two of us put a little more pressure on us for participation and dialogue, and there was also an expectation that you'd remember something from the class before, unlike the clean slate of the first class. Towards the end of the session, after reviewing a mock interview on tape and on paper, the teacher asked us to fill in a little CV (resume.) I could tell where this was headed, and she did eventually ask us to switch and pretend to be in an interview. When I saw the Spanisih guy's paper, I had to just laugh. The teacher was prompting me to be more confident in my French and to just start talking, but my French wasn't the problem; I didn't even have any questions for the guy in English. He had described on the paper a 15-year-old Mexican girl who wants to be a go-go dancer. What am I supposed to do with that? Ask "Do you have your boots?" or what? I told the guy that I was all for creativity, but at least gimme something I can work with!

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posted by Darcy @ 10:27 PM