Halloween in Paris means the Americans dress up and go to bars, and the French just go to bars. I tagged along with my roommate and her friends to go to a bar in the 5th that has beer pong. There's a table set in the back room and we challenged the French girls who were playing for control of the table. Two American guys versus the two French girls, and we almost lost. But we didn't. I actually never played, although I bought a pitcher of beer for those of us spectators. We hung out there for most of the night, and I chatted with several girls from the program, making friends, that sort of thing. Then when some people headed out to a sangria bar a few streets over, and it was a bit too crowded for me. Most of us were hungry, though, so we went over to one of the hundreds of Greek restaurants in the area to get gyros. I love their gyros. They put french fries in them.
But after that the rest of the weekend has been spent resting. Saturday was a national holiday (All Saints' Day) and many things were closed, and today was a regular Sunday where most things are closed. I did meet up with a girl from my french class today to work on homework. We're studying the passive voice, and we're having a hard time grasping the rules because A) we've never studied this before, and B) the teacher didn't explain it well. But my host mom had some grammar books that she's lending us to figure it out (she didn't know how to do the homework either and she's a native speaker).
I've been listening to Disney songs in French on YouTube. The lyrics are . . . very different. But still very pretty.
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