Tuesday,
25 July 2017
We had afternoon class and then right
after I went to the Pathe Cinema at Chavant. I met Katrina there with Bianca,
Anthony, Kayla, and an Italian guy we met Monday night at an extracurricular
French event, which basically amounted to meeting with other French students
and speaking French at a bar. That turned out to be really awkward. Bianca
invited Katrina and me to come with her to it, and since we had nothing better
to do we thought fine.
We thought it was going to be a bit more
educational though, and the guy I got stuck talking to the whole time was very
difficult to understand. His first language is Arabic (he’s from Libya) and he
also speaks English, but is learning French. Aside from speaking in a very
thick Arabian accent, he didn’t talk loud enough and the bar was very loud with
everybody else talking.
There was another guy talking with us as
well who was from Spain and he also knew English, but I had no trouble
understanding him. Still, it was like one of those awkward dates where you’re
just sitting there talking, but really you’re trying to think of an excuse to
leave early. At the bar Bianca met the Italian named Gabriel and invited him to
the movie as well.
Katrina wanted to see Dunkirk for her
birthday. I’m not really not into war movies, but I was happy to have something
to do and people to hang out with. Oh dear, perhaps this is becoming a theme,
doing things I wouldn’t do normally just to avoid hanging out in my bedroom by
myself all night.
After the movie Anthony went home to have
dinner with his host family, but the rest of us stayed out to try another
fondue place. I’m so glad Katrina picked it. I wanted to try another fondue
place to compare the two. We shared another cheese with herbs but also got a
chocolate fondue to share with fruit. We tried the cheese first, and honestly I
could not tell any difference between this cheese and the fondue place in
Geneva, so I’m guessing both places were good. The chocolate was so rich. It
had that darkness kind of flavor without being too bitter. My favorite were the
pears dipped in chocolate.
This was the first night (besides being
gone on the week-ends) where I had missed dinner with Helene and Rémi. I was
kind of sad not to eat with them, but I’m glad we got to celebrate for Katrina.
She and I get along really well. She is most definitely a kindred spirit, such a
great genuine person.
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