Dinner at Mme Marco's, part II

March 28, 2014

API asked one of the host mothers, Mme Marco, to host a series of dinners throughout the semester. Basically 4 students could sign up (first come first serve) and have an authentic French meal and practice speaking for a couple hours. There's been about 5 of them so far. I went to the first one back in January with a couple friends and I had a great time. I saw that there was one space available for the dinner this week so I decided to go. At first I felt bad because I've already been but after I found out that the 3 other students going had already been once before, and a couple other API students have also gone twice I got over it.

Mme. Marco has a son named Liam whose 13 but he wasn't at the the other dinner I went to so I met him for the first time yesterday. He's a big Nintendo fan so we were nerding out together talking about video games, haha.

For dinner Mme Marco made a North African inspired dish (her family has ties there from when France colonized Africa) of wild rice with a sauce made from berries and oranges and some chicken. Of course we also had a baguette and some wine because it's not a true French meal without them, haha. The meal was delicious, and we spent about 2 and a half hours eating and just talking about various topics. We jumped around a lot but we did talk about what we've been up to since we were there last. The other 3 students went to a dinner about a month ago so there wasn't as much new for them but for me it'd been about 2 months. She asked if our French has improved since then and I definitely think mine has. At the very least my listening comprehension is significantly better.

After dinner Liam showed me his Wii U and asked me if I wanted to play Super Mario 3D World. I really want a Wii U and that game so I said yes. After one round my friend Nicole came and joined us. We're supposed to work together but you can also compete for points so naturally we were all trying to fuck each other over so we could be in first place at the end, hahaha. It was definitely a lot fun. We played for maybe 15 minutes before it was time for us to go. But before we left Mme Marco told us that she is going to have the next dinner session be a video game day so I'm definitely getting in on that! I don't care if it will be my third time, I will literally destroy everyone to get a spot hahaha. Don't get between me and practicing French or playing Nintendo!