I have had the extreme fortune to spend the past two weeks in French language immersion at the Institut de Francais, located in the beautiful town of Villefranche-Sur-Mer on the French Riviera. Not only is the location of the school ridiculous... ...but the teaching is truly excellent. I only wish I could stay for a full 4-week program, which is what most of the students will do here in August. I have learned SO much in the past two weeks, but I feel like I'm really just getting into the swing of things. Most of the weekday is spent in the classroom, with instruction 5 days a week, 8 hours per day. I thought I was going to be overwhelmed and exhausted from trying to process so much French, but the hard part was not actually being immersed in the language (listening and understanding), it was the speaking part and trying to get the grammar right that took so much effort. I was mentally - and surprisingly physically - exhausted at the end of most days, but have had two great weekends to relax and enjoy the gorgeous surroundings. Michael even got to come down the first weekend to tool around a bit :) Unfortunately, I have to get back to Paris for work on Tuesday. But fortunately, I live in France, so the opportunities to implement and continue developing what I've learned are really all around me. I'm thinking about joining a French book club, and really challenging myself to hold more conversations in French, even if it's not perfect and takes me a while sometimes to conjugate verbs :)
Many more photos from the trip can be found in the album here.
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