Grenoble
This morning in our grammar class we went over different tenses used in telling stories. It was helpful as we wrote about our experiences the day before during the street art tour.
In my visual art class we went over different art movements. I had the chance to talk to Brenna about Dadaism, which was an artistic movement between the first and second world wars aimed at breaking all conventional rules of art.
In our class with Ryan we talking about breaking up the meanings of words and their genders in French. It was much smoother sailing than our previous chapters on phonetics, which was difficult to learn at our breakneck speeds.
After classes I hung out with others students as we waited for the tram to come at 4pm. We talked about Macron and the concentration camps on the US border. Some of the students in the program are Jewish and they shared their opinions on current events, which I found absolutely eye opening. I was happy to hear from them. When the tram finally arrived we hopped on and headed downtown for some ice cream. I tried the coffee flavor and loved it.
We all wanted to discuss our final project for Ryan’s class, a huge research paper on linguistics. Ruby and I are thinking about writing about missing words in the French language that isolate and exclude minorities from participating fully in dialogues.
Dinner tonight was fairly quiet, but after the hectic day I was glad. We talked about the different cheeses we were going to sample later on. Janine though the word “goat” in English was really funny. She kept saying she was excited to eat the “fromage goat.” Our main plate included porc, peppers, and cucumbers. For our after dinner plate we had goat cheese, cow cheese, and bread.
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