Francais

Apart from my usual city trips on weekends, I have found a new hobby to keep myself busy....started learning a new language..French. It's been a month now and the three hour sessions on Sats and Sundays are turning out to be great.....it's something I look forward to during my weekdays. It's not that I loathed weekends.. like every other person, I love the holidays. Anyways, talking of my French classes.....the first day appeared like my first day in the Univ....new faces and intro. I was amazed to see this lady who was making an effort to come from Barnala every weekend and she had no relatives with whom she could put up in Chandigarh. So, she stays in some PG for two days. Wow! then there were many teenagers..infact there are about ten of them in my batch.....so eager to prove themselves and hilariously naughty. Thankfully, there are some like me...20 somethings, working..... and trying to learn something new.....and I bet French is an interesting language.
It's been quite sometime now and I can understand a bit...mind you..a bit of French ...although there is this problem with the 'ecoutez'...its difficult to understand when French people talk..so when we hear the original French tapes....sometimes you feel lost....I think can't they speak slowly? but then why would that French monsieur and madame listen to me..at home with the French CD's that I have, I have to hear them atleast four to five times to make out their conversation...phew...but I guess...am improving:)
We also had a test...I got 35/40....not tooo bad.....again lost marks in the ecoutez.....that madame in the tape was calling herself 25 and what I heard in that entire conversation was something like 60....she would kill me for that!
When I am in the class, I feel as if I am in my fifth standard again......btw...when we were giving the test..our teacher made it a point to space out everybody in a manner so that nobody could cheat...this teenager adjacent to me asked me to show him a few answers...before the test he had asked everybody around him if they had prepared well for the test.....kinda funny....like an examination hall situation, acting like a student, I showed him a few pages. I wonder if he could see the answers from the distance that he was at....and my madame saw me doing that...
All the people are really cute....and the first day when I told that I was a scientist...I could see a few raised eyebrows...one of the girls said you don't look like a scientist.....I wonder what these kids think of people who study Science....she was quick to add..you look like a college student....a compliment...I guess...compliments like these make you happy. Then as the days are passing by, we are all trying to converse in French...it's all in tatters...we all speak very bad French....accent is pathetic....but there is this one person who has learnt French earlier and this class is a kinda refresher course for him.....he speaks mast French...and we all are in awe of him. The day of our test, we requested our teacher to make him sit in the centre of the class!! but she DID NOT agree....poor us!
Anyways, I saw a movie which had a few French dialogues in it.....and I could understand them.....me happy.....atleast all these days have paid off...
So, Tchao for now.