Les Cours au DEFLE

This past week and next week, all the EAP students are taking intensive language classes at the DEFLE (center for foreign exchange students). Right now, it's just us at the DEFLE, but when the school year starts, the DEFLE offers classes for all foreign exchange students at the Université de Bordeaux. They offer French classes as well as other subjects, like history and political science, and they're geared toward foreign students. I might take a class or two there, but I don't know yet.

We have class everyday from 8:30-12:30, except on Friday we had double class: 8:30am to 6:30pm! I was exhausted! We have another test tomorrow (Monday) to determine our French level again and what types of classes we should take, i.e. more at the DEFLE or more at the regular university. I don't really know why they're having us take the second test halfway through the intensive language program instead of at the end...

The first half of our day, we have general French, and luckily our teacher is very laid back. On Friday, we watched a movie and played French games! It was so cool to play Scrabble and Taboo in French!!! I would like to try Bananagrams en français too!

For the second half of class, my class had grammar this past week. Doing grammar for 2 hours is a little tedious! But it's not too bad. And one of the benefits of being in one of the higher classes seems to be hardly having any homework! Ouais! This week, we're going to have F.O.U. ("fou" means "crazy" in French so the acronym is kind of a joke), which stands for something I don't remember, but it's information on the French university system and how French classes are structured.

Souhaitez-moi bonne chance pour mon examen demain!