Sept mois

03.10.10

Again, I really feel like this is where I’m meant to be this year.  Even though I know there will be tough times, I will grow.  Eating my crêpe today (finally) or brioche in the kitchen looking out onto the city, it has hit me that I will be living une vraie vie française for seven months.  There’s something very different about this experience because I’m so different than I was two years ago when I went abroad. 

Yesterday, I officially met the Spanish and German assistants in Blois.  Today I met the Arabic assistant who is so nice!  He’ll be living with Harry, the Brit, so that will be nice as they want to host stuff for us assistants at their place.

Last night was really fun at the bars.  Raul, the German assistant, and I talked for a while in English making fun of each other’s culture.  He does such a great German accent, hamming up the command aspect of how their language sounds.  So far, the Blois group has shaped up nicely into something that I like to be around.  I think that people want to go to Tours next Saturday to sortir and hang around the city.  Raul drove here from Germany so he has his car which could be nice to have access to.

I realized today that I need to start thinking about les vacances!  If I want to go to the UK, I need to buy my ticket.  If it’s not too expensive, I want to fly from Tours to London.  I think that would be the easiest.  It’s hard to believe that we get a break from school so soon!  It’s only three weeks until vacation and we won’t even be teaching for that amount of time.  Only two weeks worth of English lessons before vacation!