Weekly update...Bon Voyage DTW Paris Rotation

Bonjour tout le monde! This post is nothing special. Just here to give an update on Leah and I. So this week was the last 3 days we got a chance to spend with some of the friends we made thus far. The students are in DTW, so Thursday morning they went to Rome, Italy for the next 5 weeks.  So sad to see them go; met a lot of great people. [Pictures below.] Also, it was the end of module 1! Meaning, I am done with Metaphysics....Yeah Man. On Wednesday Leah and I had a small tutoring session with three French girls who wanted to work on their spoken English. They are learning English because they are taking a business exam to get into one of the best business schools in Paris. They told us that out of the 5,000 who score high on their exams, only about 300 will be selected. Now my numbers might be off a bit but you get the picture. It was so much fun speaking to them and laughing. More than that, it was fun exchanging things about French and American Culture. During our session it dawned on me that I've been in Paris for almost two months and I have no French friends. In addition, because majority of my friends speak only English, I speak more English than I do French, that's not good at all. When I go outside, I speak only French to people in stores and on the streets, but I'm inside more than I am outside. As a result, by the suggestion of my friend Kaysen, I decided to join this page called meetup. It's when you meet up with a group at venues; there's different types of groups. There's some for music, wine, art, travelling, etc. The groups I joined are people looking to improve their French and English. You spend equal amount of time talking in French and then in English. It's totally informal so "less pressure"

This weeks dinner in order of appearance =)

Monday we had something similar to stew chicken with potatoes, leeks ( of course), and carrots! Dessert we had grapefruit which is called pamplemousse en francais.

Tuesday we had a very bitter salad, I think it was blue cheese crumbles with walnuts. The lettuce might had been sour. At any rate, we had roast beef with Tagliatelle pasta. Yummy 

Thursday we had potatoes and carrots, again, with a meat patty seasoned with what tasted like either cilantro or basil. I'm not sure. All I know is that it was good! For dessert we had creme brulee. This whole time I thought she was making the creme brulee, but I saw them in the fridge last week! They're store bought but sooo good.

Friday we had rice with salmon and a creamy sauce, with leeks ( of course). It was really delicious  For dessert we had a apple crumb with vanilla ice cream !

Here are just a few pictures of the people I've gotten to know...

Lee Lee and Tabbs-DTW, at Breakfast in America last week

Candice- DTW ( with the red shirt) and Bree - Semester student ( the one looking at the camera) Dinner at Pizza Pino some time in January . Look at the girl in the far right corner, she was giving us looks the whole night. 

Jenny and I at Breakfast in America, also a semester student 

Crazy friend Kaysen, he's a dancer and is originally from England- also a semester student.

Rich and I on the last school excursion before he left on Thursday! So cool and kind guy , great conversationalist

Amanda one of the first girls I met , had the same philosophy class. So sweet and so excited when she Learned my name was Hallelujah lol. Miss you ! 

Cameron and I minutes before he left for Rome. Also in my metaphysics class, sometimes felt like we were the only ones paying attention.