In Which Meghan Gives a Lesson in French

I think I'm doing better at French. I still suck, but I don't suck as much. It's a very important distinction. My teacher told me I was getting way better, but that I'm much better at writing than speaking. I'm thinking that I should probably just carry around a notebook and write whatever it is I want to say. I can pretend I'm a mute or something. There are a lot of strange people in Paris, I would only be slightly odd.

Mimi helped me with my French homework last night. I had to write a letter from a man whose wife had asked him for a divorce. I wrote it and had her read it over. She basically had to rewrite it, but at least I tried. We've been learning the words for relationship things, so I gave the guy a mistress.

Interesting side note: the word for mistress is maîtresse, the same as the word for teacher in French. A commentary on French culture? Perhaps.

I have also learned the word for drag queen which is un drageur. Sadly, I didn't learn that one until today. Otherwise, the man would have been a drag queen as well.

My teacher thinks that I'm going to be so overwhelmed in my French cinema class that I'll go crazy, so I think I'm going to have to drop it. They offer it at a lower level but it's on Fridays until 5 PM. I love movies, but not that much. If it was a class where we ate chocolate the whole time, I might reconsider. But 5 PM on a Friday? I don't think so. All the cheap planes leave on Friday morning, so it would be automatically more money to go somewhere.

I've decided to take a theatre class instead. We memorize things in French and practice saying them with the proper amount of emotion. I can totally do that. And plus, there will be elementary level kids in my class (I'm intermediate 1), so I'll automatically be the kid who's way more intelligent than everyone else and who everyone wishes they were as cool as.

Mimi has invited me to her school party on Friday. It's apparently at a hip club with free drinks and free lollipops. (I'm not sure why they have free lollipops. I'm too scared to ask.) Molly and I are going with her and getting dressed fabulously. Mimi has a lot of clubbing clothes that she's willing to share. I haven't seen them, but they've been mentioned so many times that I'm convinced they're legendary. I'll tell you if the collection lives up to its reputation.