France celebrates the halfway point of summer (why does the US think the longest day of the year is the beginning of summer?) with a countrywide music festival day.

The best thing about music festivals is you don't ever have to technically leave your home when you have good company while staying in a sleepy, retired peoples beach town.

Sláinte to BBQing in a stone fortress that is awkwardly shaped and doesn't hold enough wood to keep a fire burning.

understanding measurements before saying yes

The guy who took my film for development was really nice and didn't speak any English with me. When he asked me what size I wanted I didn't quite understand the dimensions of the numbers he said.

Now I have some cute little photos to present to my photo class on Lundi.

Today my boulangeriste

m'a appellée <<ma belle.>>

Totes.

Three beautiful things to say to someone who is learning

how to express themselves in a new language:

<<Nikelle, I look forward to speaking with you every week.>>

<<I believe I understood what you just said.>>

<<Yes, but you understand everything.>>

Thank you for your words of affirmation, Parisiens.

I find a lil of myself in each

of these quizzes, and plenty of contentment in the random characters the internet thinks I belong to.

When choosing which history course to stay registered in

...it seems that the one with 18 pages of probably-what-the-professor-said-in-french-notes would be the class to take instead of the one in which I only got down 10 pages.

The best part is looking at how a native speaker took notes and comparing it to what I had come up with in the moment:

<<particularity juridic>>
<< Un privilège est une spécifité juridique.>>

<<profondement arch>>
<< profondément hiérarchique>>

<<ne paie pas...ne sujebté pas>>
<<paie l’impôt...Il n’est pas assujetti>>

<<siége [   ] municipale>>
<< siégeant au conseil municipal>>

<<loi saligne - loi qui fixe modalité de prevalutaion de...>>
<<loi salique, impliquant la modalité des successeurs royaux.>>

 <<50% france actuelle>>
<<15% en moins que la France actuelle.>>

<<la guerre revolution>>
<<de la guerre de dévolution,>>

<<l'arc de siege>>
<<l’art du siège>>

<<duchez de régne>>
<<le duché de Lorraine>> 

<<comment duchez rattacher en france?
<<Comment le duché fut rattaché à la France ?>>

<<1767 - Stanslaus>>
<<1737 à Stanislas>>

<<jeu de machandage>>
<<dans le cadre de ce grand marchandage>>

<<bataille, marriage, culture>>
<<les baptêmes, mariages et sépulture>>

 
It's so interesting to me that French students edit their notes - I am a visual cat, and would never be able to study off of notes with full paragraphs.

Enjoying my last

few moments of solitary living in my almost 100 square metres apartment in the center of Paris. This week brings 8 other beings, eventually with just four of us total.