What a week it's been! I finished my first week of classes and though I'm tried and have actual homework (what? It's been a year since that), I am really excited for the year to come. I enjoyed my classes and really like my professors. I am taking a research course for my thesis which I'm oddly excited about, #nerdalert. I'm already thinking of possible topics and leaning about something involving how making mistakes in learning a language can be beneficial. My next class is a grammar and culture class with probably my favorite professor so far. The course is organized into themes and we will have various class "field trips" where we practice speaking and learn more about French and more specifically, Parisian culture. Wednesday is my longest day because I have three classes and am at the NYU center all day. In the morning, we have an hour long phonetics course focused on pronunciation. Though that sounds boring, our professor is very enthusiastic and passionate and I think I will find it more interesting than I anticipated. My next course is my teaching methods and pedagogy class. This professor is very organized and though much of what we covered is things I've learned in previous teaching courses, it will be interesting to learn more in depth about language courses. We have required observation hours where we observe some of the undergraduate French courses, which I am very excited for! My final course Wednesday night was stylistics and semantics. This professor seems very knowledgeable but I am not as interested in the topic, especially with regard to grammar. However, I think this course may be one of the most beneficial as it will greatly improve my writing in French, which will help my thesis. So classes went well! This evening, all the grad met up at a French university, Cite Universitaire, in the 14th arrondisement, where I lived last time I was in Paris. We took advantage of the 3, 25 euro dinner we got as university students, and spent the evening getting to know each other. I am in a wonderful group of people and can't wait for the next year withe them!
Au revoir!
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