Le Quotidien

The Every Day Life!

So this blog is dedicated to all the little things that make up my normal life here in Aix, but that I may have completely ignored thus far in my blogs. First I'll summarize my week!

monday- organ lesson, went oookkk because I hadn't had access to the organ much to practice the week before. there's always someone in practicing on that organ!

tuesday- went and did my internship again. This time the director wasn't present at all and I was conducting all of the winds [brass + woodwinds, perhaps 17 people] for the full 3 hour rehearsal. It was very frustrating. I'm so happy to have these experiences and lessons- and boy I tell you what, I'm learning french words FAST when I'm up in front of the dang orchestra. haha

wednesday- took my first big test- art history. I think I did purty well on it. I had spent a whole lotta time preparing for it. I always misspell words though.. in french and english :P

thursday- thats today. today I had a french class where we had a field trip! The whole class of 5 people [hehe] went around the city with the professor. Turns out- the Sephora (makeup company) store here resides in what was a 14th century convent. Its so weird- its like a very modern store and then you look up and there are ancient roman stone arches and walls! crazy!

friday- let me predict the future for you. I have class, then babysitting, then 3 friends and I [lindsay, elyse, and chelsea] are taking a night train to paris for the weekend! Its Elyse's 21st birthday, so where else would we celebrate other than paris?! woo!

So now for the photo section. Hope you enjoy!

The sunset on the way to dinner one night. Beautiful evenings we have here!

Ok, this was on our "field trip" through historic points in the city today. Here is my teacher teaching us about the posts they have up to protect pedestrians on the sidewalk. She very brazenly explained to us that the word for this post in french is a "bite" and that it is the same word as "penis" in french. Very educational! haha

These are my house keys. All of our keys look weird like this.

Here I am in front of the big fountain. Sort of dark and such, I'll try to take a better one soon.

Here's where I buy most my groceries when not at the market. Its called Monoprix and its a department store on the main level, but you go downstairs and there's the grocery!

Here's what I do when I get bored score studying- new hairdo's with my conducting baton! haha. That was me waiting in the conservatory director's office.

So this is cool- All down the street on which I live there are these little brass stones in the sidewalk that say "Cezanne"- the name of the famous painter who lived right here in Aix! He's very celebrated here. Other Aixois- Darius Milhaud (composer), Emile Zola (writer).

Here you can see the stones leading down the path to my house :) They apparently trace the steps of cezanne!

This is me studying in the garden at the conservatory saturday morning. I'm waiting for someone to finish practicing on the organ so I can go practice.

This is the nutrition info on my cereal box- note it is Miel pops- not corn pops. What I love is that it's not calories here, guys, its Energy Value [see the top listing- "valeur energetique"]. Its such a more pleasant way to look at it! haha

Here is one of our glasses at the apartment. Nutella does in fact come in these little glass jars, then when we finish them off, they become handy cups! Yes, that's right ladies, we have a whole table setting of these.

Here's how we dry our clothes- the air. It sort of stinks cause all of our clothes dry in the shape that they're hanging. haha

So, hopefully that gives you a little picture de mon quotidien. :)