La Zucca Magica

Today I had to wake up very early for school. Surprisingly, I woke up fine and made it through the entire day without a nap. Completely not like me.

I had my first french class today. I am in level 5 french. The top level is 6 but the students in 6 are pretty much native speakers and have lived in France for a while. Why they need a french class...I don't know, but it makes me feel better about not getting into the highest level french class. I was the only American in my class. Everyone else was from Germany, or Switzerland, or Austria...places where kids grow up learning french. I am probably the only one that has actually studied french! Today was pretty basic, just getting to know you kind of stuff.

Classes are so long here. Each class is 1.5 hours, but usually you have two sessions in a row of a class. So this morning I had french for 1.5 hours, then a 15 minute break, and then another 1.5 hours of french. After another 15 min break I had a double session of International Business Issues. So in total... 6 hours of class time, just for two courses! That's a long day.

International Business Issues seems like it will be a good discussion class. Today we talked about ethics and company responsibility.

Later today I met up with a friend for dinner. We went around 6pm, normal dinner time right? Nope. Most restaurants here don't open up for dinner until about 7pm. French people eat so late. So we went to a little cafe for a cafe au lait while we waited for the other restaurant to open up.

We went to a vegetarian restaurant called "La Zucca Magica." (That's not French, it's Italian) First of all, I had no idea there was a single vegetarian restaurant in France, let alone in Nice. It was quite a nice surprise to find this out. So, we sat down and ordered some wine. Then, out of nowhere the waiter brings us a plate of food. I thought maybe he just liked us and this was a free sample. I can be pretty naive sometimes. This vegetarian restaurant didn't have a menu. You get what they bring you and it ended up being a 5 course meal.

La Zucca Magica

It was amazing. I have no idea what anything was called but here are my horrible explanations of the courses.
1. Some sort of ratatouille
2. Stuffed yellow pepper with some sort of sauce
3. Mushroom pastry & sweet spinach pastry
4. Lemon zested ravioli
5. Fig and Apple pie & strawberry sorbet

I know horrible explanations but they were all their own creations. They only course I was not crazy about was the mushroom one just because I'm not a fan of mushrooms. Yuk! Oh well. There was more than enough food.

This was actually my first time out to eat at a restaurant. I have only eaten at home this whole time and it's already been a week.

After dinner, I took the tram home. Now that I have learned how to use it I am getting lazy. But I think I have a good excuse... It was night and Ma mere probably wouldn't want me to walk that far alone at night! Excuses, excuses...I think I'm just lazy and the tram is kind of fun. It's like the monorail at Disney just on the road, not high up.

I am running out of french goodbye sayings as well. There are only so many. So tonight I will just leave you with this...

Bon Appetit!