If you are still reading, thank you for being a really great friend or my mom. Today I woke up early to practice. IT WAS SO BAD. Really, absolutely dreadful. I did about 1 hour and 20 minutes of long tones and easy lip slurs and clark studies. My the end of that, my chops still felt terrible, but at least I still sounded really bad. I then went to class, which today, actually was fun. It is my "option" class, which is different for different people. For me, it is "Langue en Acte" it is basically an improv class in French. We do goofy activities and improv and acting and work on diction and breathing and that sort of stuff. There are only 10 people in the class which is cool. We don't wear shoes, and we sit on the floor. There are some new students, from other levels, so now I have also met people from Korea, Japan and Hungary. It is pretty cool.
After class, I grabbed lunch at La Vague. It was good, as usual. Another reason France is better is that they are way less wasteful. Yesterday for lunch we had green beans. Today for lunch, one of the chilled salad options was a green bean salad with tomatoes. I ate quickly, and went home again, to practice. This session went substantially better. I did about 45 minutes of lip slurs, arpeggios, and a tiny bit of articulation. This is where I made a mistake. because I am dumb I thought class started at 15 h 00, but it was really 14h 30. The class got out early, and I missed the whole thing. Which is too bad, because I missed the review of salutations. I was really hoping that last yesterday WAS a review. Anyway, we had to go survey 8 French students about sports. It was kinda cool to go talk to French people, and my French is not as bad as I often think it is.
After class, I went home for practice session three. It went much better than the last two, but I am still nowhere near where I need to be, and the first opera rehearsal is in a week.
I then met up with Laura so we could do lit homework. (This lit class is a survey of French literature, which I have found to mean talking about French literature a lot more than actually reading French literature. I am ok with this, because the excerpts are hard enough for me. We have studied early French literature, and have now made it to the renaissance.) Anyway, after an hour of working diligently, we decided we should probably go get some crepes.
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| The name of this place always makes me laugh. We pass it on the way to crepes. |
Every time we go, I am shocked by how good this place is. There is only one waitress, and I don't think she hates us so much for being stupid Americans anymore. We spent the evening there, and then we went back to finish our homework. (Watch Arrested Development)
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