On Tuesday I left school with all of the other exchange students to take the DELF (The Diplôme d'études en langue française= "Diploma in French Studies"), a French language proficiency test. On Tuesday, I took the writing section and on Friday I did the speaking section. It was strange listening to the oral comprehension part. The conversations on the CD were really silly- like a kid complaining about his boring vacation, a fake advertisement, etc. It's strange to think that before I came to France, I would have never been able to understand the dialogue on the CD. I thought it was exciting that I could understand everything being said and even the fact that it felt like they were speaking slowly. A year ago, I always had absolutely no idea during the listening parts of the French tests. It was nice to realize how much progress I've made. :)
On Thursday, I took the English speaking exam for the BAC. It wasn't too stressful... ;) However, that being said it wasn't by any means easy. You were given a topic that we had studied during the year and then you had 10 minutes to prepare a 5 minute presentation on the subject. Then, you had an interview for 5 minutes where the teacher asked you questions on the chosen topic. I got the topic of "Locations and Forms of Power" and so I basically talked about the US for 5 minutes.
So during the week, Elise and I talked about tongue twisters (or "virelangues / casse-langues" en français). I thought that French speaking ability was good enough to try some tongue twisters. I'm not the best with English tongue twisters, but I thought I would give it a try anyway. It wasn't exactly as easy as I had imagined...
For any French speakers, here are some virelangues/ casse-langues to try out. Bonne chance!
Les chaussettes de l'archiduchesse sont-elles sèches? Archi-sèches!
N'hésite et existe.
Papier, panier, piano.
Je suis ce que je suis et si je suis ce que je suis, qu'est-ce que je suis?
Si ton tonton tond ton tonton, ton tonton sera tondu par ton tonton.
Un chasseur sachant chasser chasse sans son chien.
Si six scies scient six cyprès, six cent six scies scient six cent six cyprès.
Bonus: Chez les Papous, il y a des Papous papas et des Papous pas papas. Il y a des poux chez les Papous, et il y a donc des Papous papas à poux, des Papous papas pas à poux, des Papous pas papas à poux et des papous pas papas pas à poux. Mais parmi les poux, il y a les poux papas et les poux pas papas. Il y a donc des Papous papas à poux papas, des Papous papas à poux pas papas, des Papous papas pas à poux, des Papous pas papas à poux papas, des Papous pas papas à poux pas papas et des Papous pas papas pas à poux...
Friday night I had my final handball match of the season. It was a bummer because it was only my 4th handball match ever. However this match, I scored! It will be the first and the only time that I will score during a handball match. Even though we lost, I had a great time. (Frankly because I've never cared about winning and also because I was overjoyed about scoring.)
Saturday night I thought I would do something productive so I decided to study French slang and so I watched some French reality TV because let's be honest- what's better that learning French slang from the pros? After some research, I was excited to find out that there are better reality TV shows that MTV's 16 and Pregnant. I mainly looked up shows that I had heard about from my French friends. This consisted of: Fort Boyard, The Voice, Les anges de la télé réalité, Nouvelle Star, La France a incroyable talent, Top Chef: France, La belle et son prince, etc.
My favorite by far was "Les anges de la télé réalité" (The Angels of Reality TV). This show is basically a French Jersey Shore. Basically, a bunch of reality TV stars from different shows travel somewhere (right now it's the US!) where they together and party all the time. So basically, it's so horrible it's addicting. :) Nabila, one girl on the show is super famous for coining the saying, "Non, mais allô quoi?" (Basically meaning: Hello?! Like, are you serious?) Anyway, this phrase is popular at the moment in France thanks to Nabila.
Nabila de "Les anges de la télé réalité"
Nabila from Angels of Reality TV explains that shampoo is a necessity for a girl.
This afternoon I baked a cake with my little brother. We made a "gâteau roulé au Nutella" (a rolled Nutella cake). It turned out super and it was also delicious.
If you're looking for a blog to follow, you should consider checking out my little host brother's blog. Even though he's only 11 years old, Louis is quite the chef! He is passionate about baking and created a blog to show off his creations and share recipes. Click on the week below!
Louis showed me this technique to separate the yoke from egg whites. First you crack an egg. Then you take an empty water and squeeze it over the yoke. The water bottle creates a suction which is strong enough to make the yoke separate itself from the rest of the egg whites. The yoke will stay in the water bottle long enough for you to transfer it to another bowl...Genius, right?
That's all for now~ À la prochaine!
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