I have been waiting ALL semester for this. A huge deciding factor in my decision to study in Menton was the beach, the Med. Sea, and the sunshine. Unfortunately, the weather the past 2 months has been iffy at best and definitely NOT beach weather. But those days are behind us-it is OFFICIALLY bathing suit season in the south of France-HURRAY!
The past week has been stressful because I had two exposes to prepare and perform. But now that those are over I feel great!
Friday evening we had our Arabic tutorial at Chez Younnes (the house of our tutor). He gave us the recipe (in arabic) of how to make a Tagine. He got out all of the ingredients and tools we would need and then sat back and watched as all 10 of us tried to read and understand the directions and work together to make the Tagine. It turned out delicious! It was fun and we felt super accomplished because we only messed up one time-and it wasn’t even a big deal (just added the basil too early)! And we got to watch the muppits in arabic after!
Yesterday (Saturday) we were supposed to be at the school at 9:45am to film our lip-sync video. There is a big competition at the end of the year between all of the sciences-po campuses and one of the categories is lip sync. The thing is that you have to film the whole thing in one take and we were doing 3 songs and there were over 60 people there participating. Me and four other girls were assigned the role of crayons. I was the green one. It was funny. We all wore our colors and made little paper pointy hats. We rested in the garden with everyone for like 2 hours before we even started the rehearsals. This is when I realized that the weather is finally starting to get nice. We were SWEATING. It was sooo hot in the garden and our pants and long sleeves were not doing the trick.
Finally we started to film and it only took about 4 takes (with like 20 minutes in between each though)! I hope it turns out well-I’ll post it on here as soon as they get it all edited and done.
After that we were so grumpy and thirsty and hungry and hot so we came back to the Villa rather quickly. After eating we started to feel better and we decided to head down to the beach to hang out with everyone. We got our bathing suits on, put on sunscreen, and picked up some beer on our way over.
There were so many students there and everyone was just lounging on the beach, talking, reading and some were swimming (I’m unsure if it’s warm enough for this yet). It was quite lovely until the sun went down-then it was just cold.
I have to say-I really do miss the sandy beaches of California though, the rocks, although very lovely, are a little uncomfortable to lie on.
It was a calm weekend in Menton. Lots of sun, food, laughter and relaxation. AKA perfect J
PS. Barcelona in two weeks!
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