Football and Legumes

Two cognates that mean two different things in American English and French

• football: French- equivalent to soccer, American- American football
• legumes: French- vegetables, American- beans and other bean-like fruits 

Maybe those are differences between American English and the rest of the world. Because no one else calls football soccer and I had a really hard time explaining to the German girls what the difference was between a fruit and a vegetable. They refused to believe me that tomatoes are fruits but later they looked it up on Wikipedia and saw that I was right.

Last week, a bunch of au pairs from the Facebook group posted that they were going to play football and asked if anyone wanted to join. At first I wasn't sure if I should bother. They are all Saint-Tropez au pairs and therefore I thought that they would all be on the Yasmin-Julia-Pia side of things (that I never tried to fix because everyone told me it was basically pointless since they had made up their minds about me already, tant pis). But after some quiet deliberation, I decided that football is soccer and an hour or two of soccer, even if there were to be some hostility, would be worth it. In the end it turned out that there was another au pair from Cogolin. Her name is Nathalia and she is from Brazil! I gave her a ride to the game because she can only use her car to pick up her girl from school and now we are really good friends. She is so cool and practical and down to earth. She's a bit older than me too, so she kind of feels like an older sister. Anyways, not only did I make a friend in Cogolin (miracle's happen), but all the other au pairs were pretty cool too. None of us were in really great shape to play football even though a few of us claimed to do sport here (me included). So we played for about 40 minutes called half time and then laid around on the turf and the asphalt for another half hour.

Christine is starting a garden on the side of the house and so today, the kids and I helped her plant some things. We got pretty much everything in I think-- cherry tomatoes, strawberries, 3 types of lettuce, and some kind of yellow flower. It was fun, although it was quite hot outside and Thomas was being a bit of a monster. Matthew said he was hungry so we ate lunch early. As a result I got off a bit early and was able to get some freetime in to make sure everything is ready for Cannes! I'm so excited to go; I feel like I've been waiting for this forever. GP- drive to Saint-Raphael, meet Luisa, 4pm train, arrive at 5pm, eat, watch movie on the beach, and party time until 6am when the first train goes back to Saint-Raphael. I can just tell it's going to be great.