Trees with lights!

Last night me and Juliette and her dad went driving around Paris to see the lights. GOD, the Galeries Lafayette must need their own power station, I swear. And they have try hard Myer windows. Clearly Myer is better than Prestigious French Shopping Centre.

SPE ANGLAIS (Specialist English) IS THE BEST SUBJECT EVER.
Ahem. It's like Lit 1+2 but with accents. The class is almost all in English, and the vocabulary is amazing - they keep using words like 'retrospective' and 'dramatic irony' and 'mortified.' If the teacher doesn't think they have used sophisticated vocabulary she stops them and makes them think of better word. This lead to much smothered laughter from me when the teacher suggested that instead of "Jim has not capitalised on his talents," they say "Jim did not make the most of his endowments." She wrote this on the board too, meaning I had to keep staring at my page until she rubbed it off because I couldn't look at it without laughing. It doesn't help that they're reading Tennessee Willian's The Glass Menagerie. Picture a guy with a really strong accent saying things like "Hey there Mr. Lightbulb!" and "Why, I'm as comfortable as a cow!" Oh man. I'm laughing all over again at that one. They took 10 mintues at the start discussing how the word 'gay decievers' was actually TW secretly saying that he was gay 'cos he never told anyone. I didn't have the heart to tell them that it was just slang.
I had two hours of French in which I could not concentrate at all (Why do they need to know the ENTIRE history of theatre? WHY?) I did concentrate for the part where they were reading from this play called 'The Rhinoceros' or something. This consisted of one character saying something, and another saying, at random intervals, "Oh, a rhinoceros!" Best play ever. Also mentioned was En Attendait Godot. I had to stuff my hand in my mouth when that came up. French makes everything amusing.
I also had two hours of class with a Seconde class (year 10 equivalent) who are absolutely feral and made the biggest fuss about me ever. The teacher seemed to spend the entire class pointing out that the author of the book had used lots of words like "today" and "yesterday" and that there were two verbs in the first sentence which gave it some sort of rythmn. I sure hope that isn't their Lit equivalent because I'm pretty sure all that might be a coincidence.
After school I caught the metro with the other Aussie at the school, Kathryn (Catherine? Not sure) who is super nice. We decided to go shopping on the Champs Elysées, just 'cos, but we couldn't find it until about 10 mins before we had to leave. Everyone I tell this to is incredulous, partially because the Champs Elysées is super expensive but mainly because it's A HUGE ROAD right next to the Metro station (yes I said metro station) and how could you lose it? We only found it when it started to get dark and I saw the lights in the trees. This caused us to run towards the roundabout, shouting "Trees with lights! Trees with lights!" We're going to try going shopping properly tomorrow.
And me and Juliette's twin Mathilde went to see Hunger this evening. I thought Steve McQueen was dead?
--Emma