Successful dinner

Tonight was successful in my opinion and I'm really excited about it; I got to know my host family a lot better and we had a real conversation!!! This really thrills me.

It started with yesterday when we were talking at dinner, and it was mentioned that I should speak English with Quinton (the 15 year old son, I now know how to spell his name!) so he can get a little bit of practice in, just for like 30 minutes at a time. So this evening before dinner we decided to talk a little bit, and at first it was a little hard because we didn't know what to talk about. We ended up discussing his english class and that they're reading Animal Farm by George Orwell. Crazy! but it helped because we also talked about how sometimes its easier to understand than to express yourself. Brigitte came in to tell us it was dinnertime but the conversation continued into dinner, but we ended up talking about movies because we Quinton came in to talk to me about speaking English I was watching Harry Potter. So we talked about that for a while at dinner and the conversation went really well! Like amazingly! They're even going to let me borrow some french DVDs and I can watch tme downstairs on their computer if I want. They were telling me all about them, and they seem to be really entertaining. The only one I can remember is "je vous trouve tres beau". But we (brigitte, quinton and myself) tried and discovered that my american dvds work on their computer! So we might watch one of my movies together sometime.

I feel like this is a great success because it helps me pick up random words, I wouldn't have before! Basically I'm on a high because its sometimes a little hard to have a conversation with a limited vocabulary. But more and more I'm starting to have a good repore with the family and getting to know them better :)