Le Monde Est Stone

We got a new piece of music today in Musique class, and it seems rather strange. The title is "Le Monde est Stone", which translates to the World is Stone. I asked my friends what "stone" was in French, and they said it was just like a nonsense word. The lyrics were sort of dark and weird, but what was cool in that class was when Mr. Pils (the teacher) played us Halleylulah at the end and said a few English words. Now, I know that doesn't sound so great, but whenever a French teacher mentions "anglais" (which means "English" in French) I get this sort of wicked feeling in me which often results in a snicker/grin/laughter. He said, "forever and ever" and "king of kings" and "lord". Trust me, after hearing all this French and stuff, having people speak English unnaturally is rather giddy-ing.

There was also a similar instance in my last FLE class at the end of the day. The French adapted a lot of English words, but we also have "stolen" a whole bunch of French words in turn. So when Madame Voutaz (my teacher) gave us a sheet on professions, me and Jess nearly cracked up when she pronounced "un job". I mean, it sounds mean but we weren't laughing at her, we were more just laughing... at like... the fact that they used that word now, and sort of the accent. 'Cause she pronounced it more like "jeb".

Anyway.

Also in that class, we of course talked about professions and even went around the room saying what we wanted to become. I said "ecrivain et musicienne" to which she gave me one of her exploding grins and said something like, "Ca c'est un artist!" which basically means "that's artistic/an artist". And yeah. Turns out the French don't normally say stuff like "he is a doctor"; they'd just say "he is doctor". So that's pretty weird.

After hearing I wanted to be a writer, Jess turned around and asked if she could have a free copy of my book, saying, "Oh yeah you just have to.. just remember me" with laughter. Yeah it was cool.

I need to...

practice the audition piece

practice site-reading

and, naturally, practice my scales

But, it's already late and ugh another day at that school place. Seventy....three.