qu'est-ce que c'est?

So on Wednesday us foreigners (not counting the Romanian girls, cause apparently Romanian is very close to French, in addition they have all played in France or French speaking countries before) went for our first French lesson in Metz (about a 20 minute drive from Terville). We started like a kindergarten class, learning the alphabet, numbers, random words (un crossant, une machine, un animal, un hôtel), and some basic statements, like" j'habit en Terville" I live in Terville, je suis American "I am American", and lastly “c'est un animal” this is an animal. We used pictures to practice our pronunciation which was pretty funny for two Americans, a Czech, and two Spainards. Tereza, our Cezh girl was shown a picture with some grass and two legs of some creature so our teacher Marc ask her "Tereza, qu'est-ce que c'est?"(what is this? and her very quick, very Czech-French respond was "c'estunTIGRE!". We all burst in to laughter considering that "Tigre" was not one of our random words, but "un animal" definitely was. Well be going in twice a week I think for our lessons, so hopefully in the near future when a little French lady rants off at me after a match for 4 minutes straight without realizing I don’t speak French, I'll have a response :)

Tereza the "Tigre"

Last week in Hainaut, we lost a close match in 5. Our club hasn't ever beat Hainaut and this past weekend was definitely our chance. Our libero, in game four pulled her self out of our passing formation which was for the best, but our passing and blocking struggled for the entire match. So, we lost and no matter how close we came, it still sucks to lose. But we did move up from last to 9th place :)

We've finally got our tv hooked up and actually have a few English channels, CNN, ESPN Classic, BBC, and some other random stuff that is definitely not American. But it's good to see American shows, even if they're not in English (if anyone knows how to change the language on a French tv, hollar at me). So life is pretty amazing, I wake up everyday and realize how extremely luck I am and give thanks. I have a gre

at family that is so supportive, great friends around to listen to whatever issues I may be having (thanks Karen), and I'm learning so much everyday about myself and about the world around me, life is good. Keep praying for me :)

This is Karin (the girlfriend of Dave's teammate, Steven) and I the last time I was in Switzerland