Just Got a Hold of These...

mmmhhmmm, got these from the Ocean's junket

Super Exciting

Yesterday I saw (close up): George, Brad, and Matt. I don't think I need to give you last names either for you to figure out who I mean. Let's just say they're in a movie called Ocean's 13...it was really freakin' cool.

A Petit Pause

So far the festival has been relly interesting and definitely eye-opening. It gives me a new perspective on the way this industry is and I think that having lived in France before has affected the way that I view the importance of it all. More on that later...back to work.

Celebrity Sightings

So far I have seen a couple of celebrities here at the festival: Toni Collette (a la sixth sense, little miss sunshine), Jude Law (from from away) and Jake Gylenhaal (from very close up). Pretty cool. Must go, more details later.

Super News

I had my internship again today and not much exciting happened in terms of stuff accomplished. I did however get some very exciting news about what i will be doing. We received our badges and each badge has the name of either CNN, Prime Cut, or Entertainment Tonight. I was one of the two people who got the Entertainment Tonight badge and found out that I will be working directly with the Producer of Entertainment Tonight. Basically I got the best of the best in terms of the Chapman students and essentially will be having the most amazing opportunity. I'll start work with the Producer on Saturday (She's a woman, too--how cool!) and apparently students in the past havee gotten very involved so I should learn a lot.

PS. Happy Mother's Day yesterday to my momma, here's the only pic I have right now:

(We're a bit over exposed! But that's Disneyland in the background!)

Mougin and Grasse

Our classes consist of two parts. The first have of the class we work on grammar and the second half we have discussion to practice speaking. A big topics for us is the difference between French and American culture; generally Giselle (my prof) feels that the biggest difference is about the way we view life. Americans (and Anglo-Saxon cultures) have a strong desire to be efficient and useful, whereas the French much prefer to enjoy the petits plaisirs of life. So, after the pause in our class, Giselle suggested that we go on a little field trip to relax and life like the francaises. So we hopped in Giselle's car and she took us to Mougin for the day and bought us a coffee. It was one of those spur of the moment decisions and it ended up being incredible. The town is one of the cutest little villages I have seen and just sitting and relaxing was so very nice.

When we got back, we went to Grasse, where we took a tour of the Fragonard perfume museum and factory. It was interesting, but I didn't find anything that I really wanted.

Geil

I may possibly be in the midst of one of the best days yet. Let's just say, I had a field trip and it was awesome....more on that later. I'm off to Grasse (perfume capital of the world) in a few.