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fandomhigh2010-09-27 03:42 pm
icecoldfrost) wrote in fandomhigh2010-09-27 03:42 pm
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French Study Group. The Library, Late Monday Afternoon.
Those arriving for the inaugural meeting of the French study group would find that Emma and Sookie had laid claim to some of the large study tables towards the back. There were some tartes aux fruits and petite madeleine to one side for people to snack upon.
No, Emma hadn't made them. She'd gone to Patisserie Poupon.
But don't think for a second that Sookie hadn't taken careful note of what she thought the ingredients in said pastries might be so she could make her own sometime. Hey, if she was studying like the French, she should cook and eat like them, too!
It was excellent logic, thank you.
"Welcome!" Sookie said to the newcomers as people wafted in. "I mean, um, bienvenue."
Sookie, sadly, was not able to really get rid of her own accent to replace it with a French one, no. The effect was...memorable.
Memorable was a good word for it. Emma just kept a smile on her face and managed not to dissolve into giggles. "Enchanté," she said dryly. "Je m'appelle Emma Frost, son nom est Sookie Stackhouse."
"Oui!" Sookie agreed happily. "And I'm gonna switch to anglais here, since we're studying French and don't know it parfait yet. So, welcome to our French study group. For our first day, we were kinda thinkin' we'd just introduce ourselves and say why we're learning French. In my case, it's 'cause a number of people 'round my parts have French roots, and it'll be more useful for me."
Emma waited until Sookie was finished before nodding. "At my former school, it was required that the girls learn at least one foreign language," she said. "Those of us in the upper class--" and she did not mean upperclassmen. "-- were expected to take French, as our teachers felt it was a language that required elegance of thought and mind, and I enjoy the discipline required to learn other languages."
"So let's hear who you are, and why you're here, and what you'd like to study in particular, be it verb forms, literature, or whatever else you want to work on."
"I'm working on my accent," Sookie shared.
We could all tell, Sookie.
"And help yourself to all the pastries," she added with a Vanna White-like wave.
No, Emma hadn't made them. She'd gone to Patisserie Poupon.
But don't think for a second that Sookie hadn't taken careful note of what she thought the ingredients in said pastries might be so she could make her own sometime. Hey, if she was studying like the French, she should cook and eat like them, too!
It was excellent logic, thank you.
"Welcome!" Sookie said to the newcomers as people wafted in. "I mean, um, bienvenue."
Sookie, sadly, was not able to really get rid of her own accent to replace it with a French one, no. The effect was...memorable.
Memorable was a good word for it. Emma just kept a smile on her face and managed not to dissolve into giggles. "Enchanté," she said dryly. "Je m'appelle Emma Frost, son nom est Sookie Stackhouse."
"Oui!" Sookie agreed happily. "And I'm gonna switch to anglais here, since we're studying French and don't know it parfait yet. So, welcome to our French study group. For our first day, we were kinda thinkin' we'd just introduce ourselves and say why we're learning French. In my case, it's 'cause a number of people 'round my parts have French roots, and it'll be more useful for me."
Emma waited until Sookie was finished before nodding. "At my former school, it was required that the girls learn at least one foreign language," she said. "Those of us in the upper class--" and she did not mean upperclassmen. "-- were expected to take French, as our teachers felt it was a language that required elegance of thought and mind, and I enjoy the discipline required to learn other languages."
"So let's hear who you are, and why you're here, and what you'd like to study in particular, be it verb forms, literature, or whatever else you want to work on."
"I'm working on my accent," Sookie shared.
We could all tell, Sookie.
"And help yourself to all the pastries," she added with a Vanna White-like wave.
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