Le Weekend!!!!!

Dear Friends,

It is now the weekend.  We had forgotten how welcome a weekend can be.  We have a dinner and dance at the school tonight.

That reminds me that we have not written about the food at the school.  We eat both breakfast and lunch at the school.  The breakfast is nothing special - yogurt, bread, some type of roll, jam, cheese, coffee and tea.  As a result, we eat a regular breakfast at our flat and then just have coffee at the breakfast.  On the other hand, the lunches are superb.  There is always a first course, a soup, salad or fancy pizza, then a main course with protein, vegetable and starch followed by a dessert.  Sometimes the desserts are delicious but not good for you and sometimes they are both delicious and good for you.  There is always water, apple juice, coffee, tea and bread.  We will provide a picture later.

Everyone is looking forward to the dinner tonight because the chef at the school seems to be quite good.  We are stopping at a new friend's flat for a glass of wine before the dinner.  It will be interesting see how the party goes.

Today, our class had our first expose.  The teacher picked one of the better students who did a great job.  It did not appear as daunting as we had thought but then someone else was doing the presenting. We will have one a day for the next 8 days until all of us have given our expose.  An expose in French simply means a presentation.  The one today was about a bicycle trip in Spain.

Tomorrow we will go on a tour of the old town of Villefranche-sur-Mer with the school.  It will only be two hours, and it appears that we do not have to speak French although there may be significant peer pressure to do so.  Sunday we are going for a walk with a group from school out to Cape Ferrat for lunch.  If it does not rain, it should be great fun and will be beautiful.

More later,
Jane and the Unabashed Liberal