Semester's finally winding down. We only have ten more days left in the program, and now that both Sorbonne classes, Grammar and Phonetics, have concluded, we only have one more Cinema class and then the searing trial-by-fire of the four remaining exams.
Dr. Costello is having me take pictures of classes in the program, and in return he'll be paying me the French minimum wage. Some of you might question why I didn't try to bargain him higher, like I tried to do with Mrs. O for the yearbook back in high school, but I didn't see the point. Minimum wage seems more than fair in this instance.
Last night M. Bondurand held his end-of-the-year dinner for the Cinema students at his apartment in Montmartre. We started off with gazpacho and then progressed to an array of light meats and a salad with olives, peppers, and feta. Everything was superb, easily a step above almost everything else I've eaten in Paris; for dessert we had cakes made from apricot and lemon custard that were so delicious they seemed some heavenly dish out of Hindu mythology.
We also had our last walking tour this morning. We looked at examples of Art Nouveau in the 16th arondissement. A group of us spontaneously had lunch in the Jardin de Luxembourg and wondered why we had never eaten there sooner. In Grammar and Phonetics we had small parties to celebrate the end of it all.
Haven't heard from CVM yet.
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