Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Wednesday

I'm ill. :( 
Juliette had a sore throat/cough, and so look who was next to get it! It's so 'lovely' that the one time they actually care about germs is when they're coughing away and DON'T want cough-germs on their hands. And I was awake again at 5.30 this morning. Well, it felt like HOURS before that, until I FINALLY decided to check my phone just in case it was 9am and we'd all slept in, and it was 5.30. Today though, I wasn't 'bouncing around'. It felt more like I was slowly dying in bed and getting through boxes of tissues. URGH. The week before I go home. 

Yesterday was awesome (despite being ill) - I went to Chatelet to buy a Christmas Present, and then walked from Chatelet across Paris to Malesherbes for a music concert at the Music School, which was a LOT better this time. Although I still don't understand why the musicians look so OLD!  Professors perform too, but don;t they have ANY students??! This time is was a violinist performing with her accompanist, and although I was a bit weary of the contemporary pieces (L.Janacek), the more classical ones were incredible. To my disappointment though, I discovered that there are no cellists in the January program. WHAT is the world coming to??? 


Salle Cortot, 78, rue Cardinet, 75017, Métro Malesherbes

Yesterday afternoon, Margot leapt into the car and jargled out a bunch of rapid-French, and I amazed myself by understanding what she was on about after she'd repeated it once! Her English tutor had given them all an English recipe for a pudding. The way she said 'poo-deeng' I understood she probably didn't know what it meant, so spent ages trying to explain how 'dessert' in French is 'pudding' in English, and then I asked her what the pudding recipe was, and she looked at me as if I'd asked if micro-pigs came before dinosaurs, and said 'Poo-deeng'. So obviously my explanation hadn't helped. I asked 'WHICH pudding', and finally got 'bread and butter'. OH mon dieu! Of ALL puddings, she has THAT?! Jeeze, that's hardly a traditional English pudding!! Although to be honest I can't think of a traditional English pudding other than Ban & Jerry's or Christmas Pudding... But Bread and Butter? That's the most horrendous concoction ever! Why would anybody want soggy bread with raisins after their meal? I think she's expecting me to 1) buy all the ingredients, and 2) make the pudding. Apparently her teacher wants to see them/ try them/ eat the whole lot on Friday. This is an English class, not a cookery class! And why on earth has everyone got the same recipe? The only thing worse than one bread and butter pudding is an entire class-worth of badly-attempted B&B puddings!

HOME in two days. TWO DAYS! And this 'big freeze' Daily Mail is predicting? If it affects the trains I'll be RUNNING home. 


1 comment:

  1. All the young musicians have become Britney Spears clones (horrors!).

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