If it's not the best job ever, it might come close

One week into French Camp, and here are some of the things I've been paid to do:

• Get lots of practice speaking French

• Go to the opera Béatrice et Bénédict

• Spend a Saturday at 7 Peaks water park going down water slides, synchronized swimming, and listening to girls say how cool it was that all of a sudden they were the exotic foreign language speakers that you run into from time to time. I haven't had that much fun swimming since I was 9.

• Eat camembert, brie, and gruyère

• Spend lots of time with the two friends who happened to be the other counselors

• Live in an apartment where professionals come and clean our bathroom, people drop clean towels off at our door, and where I have a key that opens every door in the building

• Eat ice cream cones

• Pretend to be a snobby art critic at the Museum of Art and then end up discussing the deep meanings of this (which was actually really neat).

• Watch À la folie...pas de tout, Sabrina, TinTin

• Dance along with Claude Francois and les Claudettes (yes, this video is that amazing)