Time to talk about Phonetique July 18th

Okay, so today Phonetique started and in my 30 minute break between classes I enjoyed a Chardonnay. It's also worth nothing how hot it was today that just a simple 10:30 am class of wine had me feeling a smidgen lightheaded as I sat down to practice prononciations. However, this turned out to be totally necessary as the teacher was deeply frightening. First, we had to sit through several minutes of musical chairs as who was in what class was oriented, thankfully Nick Viall and I are good and got to stay together. But then it happened, I was called on to say some things and I guess I wasn't saying them properly so she quite intensely insisted I look her in the eyes in French and follow what her mouth is doing. It didn't horrify me at the time but really freaked Jack out and upon later reflection this was quite alarming. Moving on from there we attended some class with Amanda in the Latin quarter and then met up with Tori's friend Sabrina at our classic Au Petit Bistro for a send off dinner as she is headed to Ireland. Now that they recognize us at Petit Bistro we get stronger pours on our wine and on Caroline's classic vodka orange (note to self: find photo of happy Caroline with the vodka orange) So I tried out their steak with the pepper sauce and of course had my magical potatoes. Potatoes were a classic 10/10 for being perfect potatoes and the steak was a little less cooked than my liking but I enjoyed it nonetheless however I'd keep it at like an 8/10. Caroline made fun of me for having my second wine of the day before 3:00pm and joked that I'm becoming a Real Housewife...not opposed! (kidding) I also had a Creme Burlee for dessert just to try something even though I generally don't care for those. But it was pretty good! Like a 7.5 because creme brûlée is in my option just kind of too much of one thing but this time I at least enjoyed the one thing! We then stopped in a pharmacy where I explained my project to the guy working and he let us take some photos. I then returned home to do work for the night with Hannah and Katie.

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