French Dinners and International Friends

There's this course at l'Université d'Artois that all international/Erasmus students must take and can get credit for called French Language Exploration (FLE). As there are only six of us new international students, there are only six of us in the class! Me, Phoebe, and Grace are in it together, and also our new Romanian friends Razvan and Marianna and our Italian friend Angela! (I think I mentioned them before, but if not, now everyone knows!!) 

So Grace, Phoebe and I decided to host a little dinner at Grace's apartment after our class, which is on Monday nights from 5:15 to 7:15, and tonight was the first night and it was a success!! This morning the three of us went to LeClerc to buy the ingredients- chicken, bread, lemon, garlic, green beans, and a dessert (I already had some potatoes and Grace had some carrots so we decided to use those too!). Then between our 3:00 class and the 5:15 class we cooked the chicken and cut up the vegetables, and once class was over we went back to her apartment (in the snow!) to finish cooking and eat! I would have to say it was a major success- Razvan kept commenting on how good the potatoes were and everyone seemed to have enjoyed themselves, and we plan to do it again, so yeah, by those standards I would say our first French dinner (à la style peasant, we believe) was a definite success!

The preparations!

The end result!

The gang!

Angela nomming on some dessert!

Here are the six of us from the other night! In order from left to right: Marianna, Phoebe, Grace, Razvan, and me! And then in the front of us is Angela!!

Also, I want to show off some of my new friends! I don't have a picture of Susanna and Anan, my other roommates, but I do have some photos of everyone else!

Me and Steffy- she is my Spanish mother in France!! And also one of my roommates

Me, Nerea (a roomie as well!), Estrella, and Irene (who was the birthday girl in this photo!)!

Oh, and for those of you wondering, we also had some white wine with our dinner, because, you know, it's a FRENCH dinner! Then we walked home in the cold but gorgeous snow : ]