Bakerboy From Lyon

Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts

12/10/2013

Tongue Tied


Crappy weather today. Stayed indoors and slept and vegged out. There is a Spanish girl named Natalia staying here who wants to teach Spanish in a French high school. She came yesterday with her friend Macarena (yep, like the song) who is an au pair for a French family in Croix Rousse.



It’s pretty strange that with most foreigners here the only way I can communicate is in French as they have their native language and French and sometimes a little English. So I speak French with Spanish people...yeah never would have guessed that.


07/10/2013

International Happy Meeting


Today was standard, apart from Alexandre doing some cool new breads which he was practising for his presentation on Saturday. One which stood out in particular was “couronne Auvergne” which is shaped like a crown but is made up of 7 individual pieces held together by a thin layer of oil brushed dough.
couronne auvergne apres

We made all the small breads in the different shapes as well.
The repair guy finally came and it took him 10 min to change the handle, so I could finally do some washing before I went out to meet up with Marion and Carlotte at an “international happy meeting” which is a buddy system they want to start between “Erasmus” or exchange students and French students.


The party was held at a pub just behind place des terreaux and I got to chat with some French students as well as 2 Spanish girls who had that very cool Spanish accent especially when they say stuff like “Valencia” or “gracias”J.  The main premise for the evening was a “blind test” which consisted of teams listening to a song for 5 seconds and then having to guess the name and artist.

I thought my team did ok but it turns out we came dead last. That sucked. But it was a good time anyway: p there was a tie for first place so the two teams had a dance off to “gangnam style” which was quite funny to watch the tables suddenly erupt into people doing the dance moves.
psy-gangnam-style-dance

I tried a cider called “magnus” which was alright. Not too sweet like some ciders and also only a slight carbonation. And of course a panache to finish things off. It seems like the alcohol here doesn’t hit you as hard as the SA stuff although I steer clear of shots though.
Carlotte and I walked home afterwards and I got about 3 hours sleep before work.