Enchante

The kids have a new game they like to play. They say, "Repeat after me: (insert some unknown French sentence here ) " And being the gullible, stupid Americans that we are, we, most of the time, repeat what they say. You would think we would know by the way they snicker and whisper to each other right after they tell us, that what they just said must be something either inappropriate or insulting, but we still say it anyway. For example, today I told a man he was "as hairy as a monkey" and David told Emmanuel that he thought he was very beautiful and wanted to marry him. But no, it gets worse. After some curse words and dirty phrases we decided that was it. We were done being the brunt of their silly jokes and being made fools of, too bad it took us 45 minutes to realize that :/

I've learned a ridiculous amount of French in the last few days though. A lot of it came from the silly game I just talked about, as dumb as it was. But you find that when you have 6 kids to take care of, and the only thing they respond to is another language, you learn that language very quickly. I have found myself even speaking to the children in a French accent even when I'm speaking English. For some reason I feel like if I say English words as they do, with an accent, they will understand me better.