For you non-believers, here is actual photographic, non-staged evidence that I'm actually here to study and not just to eat croissants and buy stripey shirts.Here I am in the convent's library along with Sunny, Don, Gina (taking pic), and a substatial supply of cookies and Orangina, studying the evil passe compose and the dastardly imparfait, along with the annoying "pendant", "il y a", "pour", and "depuis".
The rules of grammar are supposed to be very definite and concrete, but as soon as you have a handle on it, they throw the exceptions at you. And why are things so theoretical and vague? Le Bastards!
But I have been learning a lot and getting a good solid base to build on. For example, I don't use "plus" as much anymore and have learned that only yokels call fries "pommes frites". Though embarrassingly enough, my favorite new expression is "super hyper" (pronunciation: super heeper) as in "l'eclair is super hyper delicieux" and "les chemises stripey sont super hyper cool!".
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