Le Beurre de Cacahuete (Peanut Butter)

Peanut butter is not a staple food item in France. Nutella, yes; peanut butter, no. However, yesterday my host mom and I went to Cogoglin after school so I could pick up two books I needed for my French class. After, we ran a few errands, one of which being a trip to the supermarket. I got to choose between two brands once we found the peanut butter, and they had crunchy and smooth. Oh how I have craved it. I didn't even realize I wanted peanut butter until we started talking about it here. After dinner last night I had an apple with peanut butter. One of my favorite snacks! Today, I cleaned out the jar by making peanut butter cookies. Making cookies was a perfect evening activity, combining two of the loves of my life: baking and peanut butter! My host parents do not particularly like le beurre de cacahuete but they applauded me on my cookies saying they were "pas mal" (not bad). They couldn't taste too much of the pb which was good for them.

Tonight I went and saw a French movie. Haha, but not some dark, romantic, bizarre film (that's the image I always get when I hear French movie). It was actually some pre-teen movie about a boy who moves from one town and school to another. I guess it was fitting for me to go see it because I had to get my host mom to drop me off at the theater. That took me back to the Middle School years :D I really like the theater here. It is downstairs in La Maison de la Mer, which has bathrooms and the Office of Tourism in it. The theater only plays one movie at a time because it's just one room. I love small theaters, though.

Tomorrow I get to go to a nautical exhibit in Cannes with some Rotarians. I'm pretty excited and will definitely blog about it. School has gotten better. I know my way, more or less, around the buildings, and I'm happier with everything in general. Oh, I meant to blog about something that happened the other day (this is really random, nothing to do with school). We have some neighbors that have a vacation home here. They come for the summers and also for various weeks throughout the year. They are from Germany and have been friends with my host parents for over decade now, I think. Before heading back to Germany, they came by to say goodbye to my host parents. My host mom grew up in Alsace which has a strong dialect with a lot of German mixed in. She took German throughout school and can still speak it now. So when our neighbors came by they spoke in French and German and also English with my host mom and me; let me clarify, they spoke in French and English with me, I know no German! It took all that I had not to gawk as our company switched between three languages. Without thinking they'd response in one language and begin a conversation in the next. Quite amazing. Hearing this conglomeration of words stirred my language passion even more. I am now determined to fully know at least one more language after French, preferably two or three more. I think Spanish then Italian will be my next victims. Who knows? But I'm going to be at least trilingual.

I guess that's all for now. Cannes' blog will most likely have some pictures and hopefully some exciting events. Bonne nuit!