Mon rêve francais

I dreamt in French last night!!! Well, half in French, half in English - so I really dreamt in franglais, in which I am pretty sure I'm fluent. Anyways, dreaming in a language is usually a sign that you know it well, so that was a plus! It was a really weird dream though, as are most dreams. I will recap it briefly for a select few of you who will appreciate it (Grandma, this is for you!) : I had just flown into the US from France, and I was in an airport in Chicago or some city that's not where I live... and I dropped some sort of baseball ticket voucher on the ground (I vaguely remember that the Cubs were involved!). A very kind french man and his son picked it up, looking around and thinking that it must have belonged to someone. They were discussing this in French, and I said, "Ah, c'est à moi, merci !" ("Oh, it's mine, thanks!"). And then I talked to them a little bit in French/English/switched back to French. Then I woke up SUPER excited that I dreamt in French. And that's all the exciting news that I really have for the day. I also find it funny that I dreamt in French about baseball - about the most American thing there is. Ha.

In less exciting news, I've been trying to take it easy this week. I've had classes for the past three days, but don't have any today or tomorrow (four day weekend!). On Monday I went to class out at Bron, then had 6 hours to kill before my next class. I hung out around school for a bit, then came home and relaxed here. Monday night I had class from 6-8pm, which isn't an ideal time, but it's all about the US Supreme Court, taught by a French guy in English. I'm really excited for this class. On the first day, he talked about a bunch of cases that I knew about from fundraising for the ACLU (even got an ACLU shout-out from the prof! holla GCI friends!) but he went much further into depth than what I had known. All in all, I'm stoked about this one.

On Tuesday I had class in the afternoon, which is called "Lyon, ville d'histoire." It's a history class about the city I'm living in, and we had a field trip to the Fourviere Basilica and the roman ruins. I have a couple of friends in this class, which definitely makes it more fun. Especially on this field trip day, because the professor was in a hurry, so we were basically walking around, trying to listen to/hear him talk, walking some more, etc. After class, we went to one of the pubs in Vieux Lyon for a drink - happy hour time! I then went home for dinner, talked with my host family, and went to bed relatively early. Yesterday (Wednesday) was kind of similar. I had a translation class with a ton of american friends that I've met here, and afterwards a few of us went to the cutest cafe in town. Shout-out to Katherine for this one! It's called "raconte-moi la terre" and is a global bookstore/shop kinda thing with a cafe in the back. Complete with wifi! New favorite cafe potentially? Part of the goal here was to plan our winter vacation (in february) travels! Molly and I are planning on going to Barcelona and Madrid in Spain, and then heading over to London! My first European travel extravaganza is in the works.... So after cafe-ing, I headed home and had a delicious dinner with my family - we made crepes again! I had one with ham and cheese, and another with salmon and creme fraiche. And dessert crepes with nutella. I was in heaven. After dinner it was chill time/bed time. So, those are what my typical days are like!

I have a couple more blog post ideas.. one about my day last Saturday, which was spent at a manif or demonstration and was a blast. I'm waiting for photos from a friend, though, because I somehow managed to bring a phone charger instead of my camera charger... so my camera has no battery at the moment. Another may be my observations of France and how life here is different from in the US, as I've seen it so far... One of those may be written right now! We shall see. :) Oh, and a food post will be coming. That's très importante.

I've been feeling pretty upbeat lately, as of course I'm in the "honeymoon phase" with France. The fact that I've made some good friends here has also helped a lot. But I am feeling a tad bit homesick today, so if you're feeling like it, I would appreciate a comment/facebook something/email. :)

Last, but certainly not least, for this post: a 21st birthday shout-out to Chloe! I wish I could be home with you to celebrate! I'm going out tonight for one of the Oregon students' birthday.. you better believe that one of my drinks will be dedicated to you! I love you!