I had a strange feeling being in the apartment today…I felt like I was in a dorm rather than someone’s home. Laure is out on her computer, playing her teenybopper pop music (not a bad soundtrack for the dorm life). I was just in the kitchen microwaving a frozen vegetable dish that I found yesterday at the grocery store, and Jean was also there making chocolate ice cream. Jean and I had our first ever conversation…he’s actually quite nice, just out of it. The Beguins are in Normany for the weekend, and it’s just us kids here in the apartment…very bizarre, though honestly not any different from previous weekends…it just seems different. Living with Laure is basically like living in a dorm, except I make awkward conversation with the same person several times a day instead of different people. And of course, our “hey, how are you” routine extends sometimes into more of a conversation. If only for that silly language barrier we’d talk more, but it’s often more effort than it’s worth to make small talk, or to delve deeper into topics when it takes several tries to speak and understand.

Other than that, I've been spending lots of time working : studying for my linguistics exams next Thursday and writing some papers. yay year end! I did see two movies this weekend though. The first was a cop-out...the Brittany Murphy movie "Love and Other Disasters". It was pretty awful but we were laughing most of the time, so it was worthwhile. The other, Ensemble, C'est Tout was a legit French film, and to my surprise I understood most of it, and had no trouble at all following the plot or anything. I'm going to have to watch loads of French movies this summer to keep my level of French up.