Pronunciation

I helped Nina with her English homework last night, and it was one of the most taxing exercises I have ever done. There was a conversation between Alan and Judy in her book about some dumb vacation, and I would read the sentence, mentally convert it into French, repeat it (in French) to Nina, who would repeat it back to me in English. Good god, we were both very frustrated and angry by the end of it.

Oh, god! Ha! The story was about Alan and how he went to several beaches on his vacation, except the French don't really like pronouncing 'ea' like 'eeee' and so when I gave her the sentence "Je suis allee avec ma famille aux plages differentes" she said "I went with my parents to different bitches". I could not stop laughing for a good minute and a half. I had to go ask for a kleenex.

Also funny; here, 50 cent is called 'fiff-it-ee cents'.

I was trying to show them a good fake French accent and I asked them if they'd ever seen the part in The Little Mermaid where Chef Louis is singing that song about les poissons. They got really confused because in the French version, Chef Louis sings (in French) with an Italian accent. Oh, wacky.

They are really huge fans of kebabs here, but they call them 'kay-bobs'.

Tomorrow's my first day at the library, and the head lady (who I learned has over 300 turtle figurines) told me that I would spend most of it in the Archive Attic with this other assistant, and I didn't really understand what we would be doing but it's obviously really boring because she said you'd fall asleep if you tried to do it by yourself.

I really need to get more pictures up of the house and the animals, but I never think about it until I'm away from the house. The bunny is scared of everything and won't let me pet it. Angel the cat (with one good eye) was on my bed the other night before I went to sleep and clawed happily into my arm for a long while; the fish are dull; Rexine (I found out the other dog's name) is almost as dull as the fish; and Luna has ADD.