So in class today, we continued exploring different avenues of using the French language. The last few days we've been watching a couple movies for part of the period. The "first movie" (of a movie series) focused on a couple characters (uncle-nephew relation) sabatoge a neighbor's plan to grow crops and raise a new breed of rabbits so to force him to give up the farm. Ugolin, the nephew, has this lifelong dream of growing flowers for a source of income. Of course it helped their cause that the neighbor was a hunchback, the recipient of an inheritence left by his uncle after the conspirators (uncle and nephew) mistakenly killed him while trying to convince him to sell the farm.
Part two takes place several years after the hunchback kills himself by stepping into a hole that had just been blown up with dynamite (a rock hit his head), and Ugolin and his uncle get the farm. The hunchback's daughter still lingers, now 18-ish (she was about 10, I want to say, in the first part), hanging out with a herd of billy goats, while chasing after a young newcomer to the hillside, at the same time as Ugolin is chasing after her to make her his bride.
That's as far as we've gotten in the second movie of the series. The plot is full of pretty heady stuff. Ugolin is the last member of his supposedly-prestigious family (Soubeyrans), past 30, and single. His uncle pushes him to find a girl and marry her so to continue the family line.
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We wrote poetry today. During the lunch hour we all had to create sentences with the vocabulary words provided, and after everyone contributed a sentence onto the board, we created short found poems using these sentences.
A couple days ago we had to perform skits, and yesterday we got into a group discussion about the first movie of the series that we're currently watching.
It's been an interesting week. Basically I get up at 9:15, go to breakfast, then class from 10:40 to 3:00 (we eat together for lunch), then weight lifting till 5, then dinner, then computer time and composing until bed. Not bad, except I'm sorely deprived of various people that I really need to talk to and hang out with.