Bonjour! Je m'appelle Kelcey! Je suis e'tudiante un patisserie. J'ai deux tortue et ils sont petit! J'adore arc-en-ciel gateau et jongier. Je'suis dix-neuf, presque vingt! Voila!
Okay, Okay... enough showing off my new found ability to speak French...
If you didn't quite catch that, I said: "Hello! My name is Kelcey! I am a student of pastry. I have two turtles and they are tiny! I like rainbow cake and juggling. I am 19, almost 20! There you are!"
In case you can't already tell... I had my first French class today! Unfortunately, funfetti cake doesn't exist here, so the best translation I could get my teacher to come up with was "Rainbow Cake." Works for me!
I have been pretty slack about my blogging lately, but now that I am in both pastry and French classes, I have a lot less time than I thought to spend telling everyone what I'm doing, because it cuts down on my adventure time! So, here's what I've been up to!
Yesterday:
4:30am- Wake up, put on many layers of clothes, tread up 2 mountains in the snow... Arrive at school and change into chef uniform.
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6:00am- Start Petit Fours Class! We made macaroons! Teeny Tiny ones! We also made some other tiny, adorable desserts that I will post once complete! I learned a lot of French techniques and what to call all my tools in French! Un maryse is a rubber spatula!
1:00pm- Labs end and Lunch Begins. It was delicious as usual and Carmen, the dining room manager was sweet as ever today when she came to check if we enjoyed our lunch in very broken English.
2:00pm- Change back into street clothes, and begin trek back home. We took a "shortcut" but got distracted by dogs, donkeys, and roosters so the walk took a while! then I took a 20min nap and a group of us left on a hike! It was REALLY steep. Like over 900 meters steep. My butt is going to look great. Here we are taking silly timer photos on our hike!
After the hike we walked through town and I bought delicious fresh bread, fresh jam, and a few other tasty treats at a random market set up in the center of town. The food here is still the best I've ever had. Ever. And the vendors at the marked included the very dirty, nice man that sold me my bread and an adorable woman not much older than me that spoke pretty decent English that she remembered from high school! She had awesome dreads! I bought her plum jam and have been spreading it on everything because it is too tasty.
After getting home, I began planning the Paris trip... which took till 11pm. Which leads to today!
Today was much the same as yesterday but I had a French class from 2-4 after Petit Fours. Then I came home and passed outttt since last nights planning kept me up far too late. I then took a much enjoyed shower and the students in night labs came by on their walk home to chat more about Paris... which I cut short to finish this post, talk to Craig, and sleep.
A few interesting things I learned about France today:
There is no Easter Bunny here: a BELL hides the eggs. That is not a typo. I know it doesn't make sense... but this is France...
I learned what blood sausage is because I unintentionally ate it... and thought it was delicious until I was told it was some form of blood and organ meat from an animal ground into a paste and cooked... Who thinks of these things?!
That's all for now! Goodnight!
Is that a "Bell" as in jingle bell?? and how would a bell hide eggs?? .... just sayin'
ReplyDeleteand that blood sausage sounds REALLY GROSS!! eewww!!