Lunch today was interesting. It was good but it was the first meal that reminded me that the family was on Lent. We started off with thin slices of lightly seasoned and sautéed chicken and a pile of hardly seasoned sautéed mushrooms and zucchini. After that, we each had a pile of cucumber slices that were tossed with a little oil and herbs and that was it. We ended lunch with fruit- I had a banana because it's the easiest thing to peel. And then we had our coffee and chocolates. It was a very light, healthy lunch and it left me wanting more! haha
I spent the rest of the day studying for the DELF. I've talked a little bit about this exam before but I think that was way back in February. So the DELF is a national french exam that one must take to earn a diploma at a certain level of french. All USAC students are required to take it. There are different levels of difficulty with the language and our different group levels at school correspond with the exam. We all take the exam this coming week in two parts: one day of oral expression (talking with two interviewers, performing a short dialogue on the spot, and giving a summary of an article including your opinion about it), and one day of written comprehension and expression. Those two parts together make up the DELF exam for your specific level, and if you pass you receive a diploma saying that you are competent in french up to a certain point. It's also good for life so none of us want to screw up...
I took a break from studying to have dinner with the family. We started off with another great vegetable soup and then we had a main course consisting of the rest of the olive bread and lunch meats from yesterday. There was a cheese platter, and we finished with the Basque cake. So good!
A typical dinner soup in this house
Yum! (that's bacon and ham on the left)
How french.
By the way, the "proper" way to eat cheese is to tear off a small cube of bread and smear a large chunk on top. One should not smear all of the cheese on a whole slice and eat it like bread and butter; I learned this the hard way.
Our Basque cherry cake :)
My evening ended the perfect way: I got to skype with my family and they were joined by our friends the Burnside family! It was the first time I had skyped with any family friends since being over here and it was great to see all of them! I think we talked for an hour and a half and I got to watch all of the adults enjoy some chicorée coffee, the kids have hot chocolates, and everyone nibble on bits of the chocolate that I sent. It was so so great.
Tomorrow: THE DELF. =O
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