first (big!) talk with Rachel

Sunday in the evening, I spoke with Rachel during two hours! We really had a good time, it was an enriching experience.

Regarding her student life, Rachel is not studying a specific field, her subject is about women: what are their places in our society, feminism… Her topic is also political. She doesn’t know yet what job she wants to do in the future specifically, and apparently her studies can lead to many different kind of jobs. However, she’ll probably work for a political organization.

Concerning our timetables, they are totally different! When I said to Rachel I had most of the time more than eight hours of courses a day, she was surprised and very sorry for me! She even asked me when I had the time to sleep! Indeed, she told me that her hours of courses per day varied depending on the day: for instance, she has three hours of courses on Monday, five hours on Thursday… but on the whole, she usually has less hours than me. We both have homework to do and it takes us a lot of time.

Rachel’s parents help her financially but she has a student job in order to pay her hobbies, her trips and so on. She is not living with her parents anymore and she has a roommate. Her flat is not in her university campus but it’s not far from it and she can easily go to the university by car.

We both have a big brother. Rachel’s brother is 25 years old and is living in Madrid. She visited him once and it was during a very important football match. She saw the Real Madrid’ supporters in the street, wearing the tee-shirt of the team and behaving like nothing else existed but the match! It made her realize how important football is in Europe whereas it is not in USA.

Rachel also came to Paris, in fact she had a French penpal at that time that received her. Unfortunately, she didn’t get on well with this person, which made her having bad prejudices regarding French people (she thought French people were rude). I’ll try to prove that French people are not always rude!

                  Rachel has a boyfriend, like me, and it was fun to discover that they meet the same day than my boyfriend and me! We also both love dancing: she made ballet (I did too!) and tap dancer, but she doesn’t have the time to practice dance anymore. 

We also have in common the love of food! I told her my grandparents were Italians and that I was so happy and lucky to eat my delicious Italian grandmother’s meals! Rachel is also lucky because her best friend, living in San Fransisco, has Italian origins too and share Italian meals with her. Rachel said she appreciate French gastronomy but, as there is no surrounding French restaurant, she never eats French food.

To finish, while I was speaking with Rachel, I was thinking to myself “me, speaking English, with my French accent, it’s just destroying my ears! “! So I told her how it was sensual to hear a boy speaking French with a stranger accent and how it might be nasty to hear French people speaking English! She tried to reassure me and said it was nice to hear English speakers with a French accent!