It's been quite a while since I wrote my last blog, so long in fact I've just spent the last 15 minutes trying to guess my way back into my account on here - ended up having to get a new password sent to me - so either it's been way too long or I just have a rubbish memory! Maybes I could be excused this time though, as I am busy filling it with lots of new French vocab!
It's been quite a whirlwind since I last wrote, quite a lot of ups and downs. I'll start with something positive; I'm a month and a half through my stay here, and I really feel like my French language has seriously improved, even my colleagues have said so. Probably the most daunting thing I have to do in my job is answer the telephone, I don't really like doing it in English never mind in French, but after making about a million mistakes I am (gradually) getting better at it - although my heart still does a little flip each time it rings! As well as professional language, after spending time with Axelle, one of the stagiaires living in the villa with me, my conversational French has improved too - practise makes perfect!
This week's been quite a rough week, not the best I've had since I've been here. To cut an extremely long and complicated story short, after thinking I'd lost my iPod last week and fretting and racking my brains to think where I'd had it last all this week, it turned out the other girl I'm living with (there's three of us living in the villa) had helped herself to it from my suitcase in my room ... on Tuesday night, we caught her red-handed with it when we found it in her bag - I'm happy to have it back, but obviously it has caused a lot of tension between people now, she has had a formal warning from the head of the company, and is leaving on Tuesday. Not something that I really needed, as it was a shock to me to find out she'd done it, as I thought we were friends.
Apart from that, everything's been fine - I went out last night with Axelle which was nice, and we even managed to "faire du stop" back, which I was very dubious about, but a very nice French lady stopped and gave us a ride back to Les Pensieres. I'd never in a million years done something like that by myself, but everything was fine; hitchhiking fills everybody with fear in England, but it is different in France, a lot of people do it and people are just more used to it. So that was a first for me!
So today I've just had a wander to the shops and tidied up, bit boring. I'm working tomorrow and all next week, then on Friday I'm off en train to spend five whole days with my lovely Andreas in Chateauroux - can't wait! I've also just had a lovely catch up with my favourite ever Yorkshire girlie Becky, who has filled me in on all her drunken stories hahaha ....
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