Ok, I'm not on the dock of the bay, but how awesome would it be if I were? 'Very' is the response I'm looking for, although it would be even better if it weren't pouring rain right now.
I'm sorry if you ended up holding your breath between the last miniblog and this one like I told you to. As fiona so kindly pointed out, if you had done that, you'd probably be dead right now.
Today was the carnival at school. You know how we dress up and get all silly for Halloween in america? Well here, Halloween is nothing at all, but the school's carnival... woah mama! It is crazy. There was one kid who dressed up as my scary pirate history teacher (who I swear I will get a picture of before I leave. My life just won't be worth living if I don't,) and had his class later on in the day. He, as i would say to you if you spoke french, a peté son cable, which pretty much means that he exploded and told him to leave the class right now. I thought the kid was actually pretty nice about it because he didn't color black in between all of his teeth like I would have. Then again, tact is not always my strong suit. And now I'm thinking back to the numerous awkward conversations between me and Mr. K in class... hmm.
Christophe and I had a series of intense discussions in the last couple days concerning religous freedom and laïcité, which is lack of religion in governmental institutions or separation of church and state. I have to say, I love the guy, but we can get in to HEATED discussions. A basic summary, if you're interested, is that in France it is illegal to show anything having to do with religious convictions at school, including the head scarf that many muslim girls wear. However, people get away with everything except the scarf including crucifixes and star of david jewelry, religious symbols drawn on backpacks. We basically got started on this because in my opinion, he (along with the large majority of the french population) seems to feel aggressed (<-- my spell check is telling me this isn't a word, but in my head it totally is and I feel like using it) by anything that is different from the "French" standard. I was trying to explain my view that what other people wear, or put up in their windows or their car dashboard or anything like that, doesn't concern him at all. It got really hardcore -- we were outside until 10:30 on a school night discussing, outside, and it got cold. He even brought it up the next day during Will and Grace (another sore spot between us, even though it is a lot better than before) and we went back at it. I'm having a really hard time putting all of the things we talked about back in to English, so if you want to know specifics, ask me questions via comment/email.
We had our last session of class therapy today. I'm just happy it is over. 'Nuff said.
French presidential elections are coming up soon! I don't really like any of the candidates, but I think 1e tour is going to be Bayrou Sarko, and Sarko will win. I could be really really wrong though, I have no clue.
er... I don't have much else to say, except for that Will and Grace is no longer on TV and that makes me cry on the inside because I have no more TV shows that I like.
Love
Kendra
2 comments:
Take your camera to school. Be a tourist! Explain that your father wants photos of all your teachers for a project. Or come up with a better explanation...tell them your friends in the USA want to see what teachers in France look like.
Yea, agreed! I want to see pictures!!!
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