Episode 4: Les Bon Bons Chinois & Baby Centipedes

Salut!



Another week has come and gone here at the mtc. This was our very last week of french before tahitian immersion and I am terrified lol. Like sure, french is hard and there's a stupid amount of conjugations and rules (still love it but come on guys.. enough is enough with all the tenses) but tahitian is like the wild west. There are no rules. There is a single tense. There are no conjugations. Absolutely zero Latin roots. I have absolutely no idea how this is gonna go hahah so next weeks email might be interesting language-wise hahaha



As per the title, me and my comp were walking to class when we stumbled upon this disgusting little mongrel (pictured below) just slithering his way over the pavement. It was a little baby centipede. So, according to my teacher, apparently tahitians have exactly 3 fears: ghosts, falling coconuts, and centipedes. I mean, they are venomous and their bite is super painful so that checks out. Anyways we just went about our day lol but if I see another one, whether in Utah or tahiti.. it's a fight on SIGHT



As per the title part 2, this technically doesn't count because it happened last week but this is MY email and I make the rules! Anyways, another one of my teachers who served in Tahiti brought us """""candy""""" that she got while serving. It's called "les bon bons chinois", meaning "Chinese candy"; a lot of stuff gets imported into Tahiti. Anyways she shows it to us and they kinda look like crumpled wads of paper with a bunch of Taki dust, but they have a peach on the front of the packaging and we were all pretty curious soooo full send yknow! I see the first few takers put their tongue on it and immediately make a face hahahah so I proceed with caution. I take a lick de le bon bon chinois and....what is there not to say. it was completely unable to decide what it wanted to be. Sweet?? Spicy?? Bitter?? Garbage?? It was all of those things in a span of about four seconds. It wasn't terrible but it should never be classified as a candy or treat of any kind. It was just an experience. It was literally like eating weird paper. And you can't even eat the whole thing!! There's a dumb tiny peach pit in the middle! C'est pas grave, tho. Would do it again



I've been learning that English literally just stole so many words from french. Like soooo many hahah. My favorite is m'aidez, which just reading it looks like a weird lil french word, but it's like "mayday mayday!! We're losing altitude!!" Like the classic action movie line lol. It literally just means "help me". So next time you hear a pilot in a big action movie yell "m'aidez", you can annoy everyone around you by letting them know that it's aCtUaLlY a FrEnCh WoRd 



Also it snowed a bunch here. I'm pretty sure it's all pretty much gone now but the first day was super cool. Gotta soak it in before snow becomes a thing of myths and legends in Tahiti 



Anyways I hope you all had a great week! Bonne chance and salut! 



Sœur Snuggs



Les Photos

1. Disgusting little baby menace

2. View from the classroom

3. Excellent snow artistry



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