I am sorry that once again I haven't written in awhile. They're keeping me busy! This was my first week of class, but it still doesn't feel real. I had a problem with one of them, but I think that got sorted out. For my phonetics class we have one hour of theory a week, then two one hour labs at the university. The trick is, the lab we wear headphones and listen to and repeat different words and phrases. You even record yourself speaking and can listen to how badly you mutilate the French language. The problem comes in with the headphones; they're over the ear, big huge ones that absolutely do not work with my headphones, and there isn't any other kind that works with the program. I tried going in, and spent two pretty miserable hours having my hearing aids shoved into my ears and listening to really high pitched feedback whistles. I talked with the professor, and there wasn't anything she could do about it. I went in today and talked to Madame Rochert, and she is going to help me set up a meeting every week with one of the teaching aides to do basically the same thing, minus the recording. Madame Rochert was really great about it. She's been sick all week (we all gave it to her!) and it looks like she's feeling better!
Tonight my "group" is going to a pub/bar-ish sort of thing to watch the rugby match. France versus Ireland, it aught to be big. I've never been to a bar before...that's kind of lame, isn't it. I'll try to write about how that goes. We're doing a picnic tomorrow, maybe by the castle again. That aught to be fun. Anyway I'm going to work on my homework, see how much of it I can get done now...I don't know why thought, because I have nothing to do all weekend!!
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