oops.

11:58 AM

Oh gosh, here we are again.....following a three week blogging hiatus. Well, I'll say one thing: it was inevitable.  What's funny is that I have not even been that busy. Alas! My laziness got the best of me.

 As I look over the last three weeks, a couple of events stick out in my mind: dinner parties (LOTS of 'em), Halloween, and VACATION.

 After some serious reflection, I have realized I have been to six dinner soirees over the last three weeks, including two which I hosted (which were rather small and barely justified a "soiree", I think), an international one, and a raclette one!  They were all wonderful and great and keep me eating well and staying as rotund as ever.

 Halloween has oddly been a large part of the last couple of weeks in my life. If you were wondering, the French don't celebrate quite as much as we do back in the States, and, had it not been for my teaching job, I think I might have almost forgotten it was happening (as I did with fall in general...).  From my understanding, little kiddos get dressed up and go "trick-or-treating", although the fun of it is sort of lost, being that it is not their own tradition, which is understandable.  I have seen only one apartment with pumpkins smiling down at the street, and, based on my expertise, the artists must have been expats, judging by the expertly crafted grins they were sporting. After the age of maturation, not much is done to celebrate Halloween in the style francais. I enjoyed telling my students all about the "grown-up" tradition of dressing scandily State-side, and watching their reaction as I described/mimed the infamous Mean Girls scene (below). 



This past week I spent volunteering at an intensive english workshop (or so they say...) at the anglophone library in town. You might think I'm insane volunteering to do something that I should (and am) getting paid for, but in my mind, it was a fun break from my normal work.  During the workshop, we primarily worked with a group of 8-10 year old boys, who were energetic and really just fun to be around.  Whether or not they really learned anything is....debatable.  But I also got a chance to know some of the anglos in the area, including a Tridelta expat who moved to France with her French husband after teaching in China for two years. I also went to two Halloween parties, and for both abandoned the "slut rule", and went as a pumpkin and one of Three Amigos.

Being sexy is overrated.

Two pumpkins and a Madeline!
Offensive......? Nah.

And now all that's left to talk about is VACATION! For the last week I've been enjoying my freedom from my evil BTS students and living the good life in Angers.  Major milestones include (but are not limited to): an 18 mile bike ride near the Loire, doing laundy (!!!), and fixing my window! Tomorrow I leave for Paris to visit my dear friend and fellow GG, Alex, for a couple of days, then off to Zaragoza and Barcelona to visit my other dear friend and fellow Tridelta, Delaney! I could not be more excited to get out of town for a couple days and hopefully (fingers crossed) see the sun for once! Pictures and stories to follow, I am sure.

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02 November 2012

oops.

Oh gosh, here we are again.....following a three week blogging hiatus. Well, I'll say one thing: it was inevitable.  What's funny is that I have not even been that busy. Alas! My laziness got the best of me.

 As I look over the last three weeks, a couple of events stick out in my mind: dinner parties (LOTS of 'em), Halloween, and VACATION.

 After some serious reflection, I have realized I have been to six dinner soirees over the last three weeks, including two which I hosted (which were rather small and barely justified a "soiree", I think), an international one, and a raclette one!  They were all wonderful and great and keep me eating well and staying as rotund as ever.

 Halloween has oddly been a large part of the last couple of weeks in my life. If you were wondering, the French don't celebrate quite as much as we do back in the States, and, had it not been for my teaching job, I think I might have almost forgotten it was happening (as I did with fall in general...).  From my understanding, little kiddos get dressed up and go "trick-or-treating", although the fun of it is sort of lost, being that it is not their own tradition, which is understandable.  I have seen only one apartment with pumpkins smiling down at the street, and, based on my expertise, the artists must have been expats, judging by the expertly crafted grins they were sporting. After the age of maturation, not much is done to celebrate Halloween in the style francais. I enjoyed telling my students all about the "grown-up" tradition of dressing scandily State-side, and watching their reaction as I described/mimed the infamous Mean Girls scene (below). 


This past week I spent volunteering at an intensive english workshop (or so they say...) at the anglophone library in town. You might think I'm insane volunteering to do something that I should (and am) getting paid for, but in my mind, it was a fun break from my normal work.  During the workshop, we primarily worked with a group of 8-10 year old boys, who were energetic and really just fun to be around.  Whether or not they really learned anything is....debatable.  But I also got a chance to know some of the anglos in the area, including a Tridelta expat who moved to France with her French husband after teaching in China for two years. I also went to two Halloween parties, and for both abandoned the "slut rule", and went as a pumpkin and one of Three Amigos.

Being sexy is overrated.

Two pumpkins and a Madeline!
Offensive......? Nah.

And now all that's left to talk about is VACATION! For the last week I've been enjoying my freedom from my evil BTS students and living the good life in Angers.  Major milestones include (but are not limited to): an 18 mile bike ride near the Loire, doing laundy (!!!), and fixing my window! Tomorrow I leave for Paris to visit my dear friend and fellow GG, Alex, for a couple of days, then off to Zaragoza and Barcelona to visit my other dear friend and fellow Tridelta, Delaney! I could not be more excited to get out of town for a couple days and hopefully (fingers crossed) see the sun for once! Pictures and stories to follow, I am sure.

ming. 
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