I am sitting here writing this is some kind of major food coma; I just got fed the most amazing traditional Normandy dish, eggs, potatoes and cauliflower all topped with creamy,cheesy goodness. I was in food heaven, especially this yucky cold rainy Paris day. Yup that's right guys, Paris' beautiful Indian summer is over, I'm not complaining though, I was a bit sick of dresses with bare legs but mid September let alone October 1st .
This week has honestly been a pretty quiet week, most of us started classes this week and all the children's after school activities have started so I for one spent most of the week adjusting. My classes are brilliant, I can string together French sentences now and understand a lot more of what's being said around me. I do struggle with saying French words that are so close to the English version, 'quart' was the latest to be a pain in my ass. On the flip side, teaching the children English is going rather well, their sentences are starting to make more sense and in ils école they get chosen to demonstrate English to the other children. I had a moment whilst teaching them the difference between 'this' and 'that', I actually couldn't work out the answers for the exercise; if any of you meet my French charges and cringe at their wrong usage of 'this', sorry!!
We did Wednesday wine again this week but decided we had too much to celebrate for just wine so (cheap) champagne was drunk too, nope this was not a good idea; general agreement on Thursday, never again! I spent Thursday feeling beyond fragile and generally wasting a day. Friday was a pretty quiet one by my usual standards, a few drinks and home by half 1 but then I made up for it on Saturday. Saturday was spent wandering around department stores and a musées avec Cath, it was also the last sunny day in Paris. Then finally Saturday night, it was Nuit Blanche in Paris but I'm gonna be honest that not only do I still not really know what Nuit Blanche is, I didn't actually see any of it. Oops. Still a night spent out with proper Parisians (and Cath & Delaine sponsored by whiskey) was a pretty damn good alternative...
(I managed to bore myself to sleep writing this last night, it doesn't give me great hope that any of you will find this any more interesting...)
If any of you have missed my updates or subtle hints (or are just wank friends) it's my 23rd birthday on Saturday, I wasn't actually really looking forward to it till the last 24hrs. I am unlucky in a sense of where my birthday falls because it's pretty close to the beginning of the academic year. At school this was never a problem, I never saw it as a hindrance BUT then I went to uni and my birthday was about 2 weeks after arriving at university. I had made friends but no one like my girls back home and it was my first birthday away from any family, it was a strange experience. Don't get me wrong, I loved my Trefloyne birthday; there was a chicken nugget birthday cake for one but fast forward to my 22nd last year, my 90's birthday with the best friends I made a uni; people that know me so well, the two don't compare! (The middle birthday at uni was utter shite but we can all thank a certain ex for that). It's a completely different experience celebrating things with people who know you inside out, upside down and back to front. ANYWAYS yes I was super apprehensive about 23rd à Paris, will I actually have fun?? But some reassurance and making plans with some of the friends I have made here has left me looking forward too it. How often do you get a birthday in Paris anyway, I better make the most of it!!
E did me some beautiful artwork for my room today, she puts me to shame artistically...
This week has honestly been a pretty quiet week, most of us started classes this week and all the children's after school activities have started so I for one spent most of the week adjusting. My classes are brilliant, I can string together French sentences now and understand a lot more of what's being said around me. I do struggle with saying French words that are so close to the English version, 'quart' was the latest to be a pain in my ass. On the flip side, teaching the children English is going rather well, their sentences are starting to make more sense and in ils école they get chosen to demonstrate English to the other children. I had a moment whilst teaching them the difference between 'this' and 'that', I actually couldn't work out the answers for the exercise; if any of you meet my French charges and cringe at their wrong usage of 'this', sorry!!
We did Wednesday wine again this week but decided we had too much to celebrate for just wine so (cheap) champagne was drunk too, nope this was not a good idea; general agreement on Thursday, never again! I spent Thursday feeling beyond fragile and generally wasting a day. Friday was a pretty quiet one by my usual standards, a few drinks and home by half 1 but then I made up for it on Saturday. Saturday was spent wandering around department stores and a musées avec Cath, it was also the last sunny day in Paris. Then finally Saturday night, it was Nuit Blanche in Paris but I'm gonna be honest that not only do I still not really know what Nuit Blanche is, I didn't actually see any of it. Oops. Still a night spent out with proper Parisians (and Cath & Delaine sponsored by whiskey) was a pretty damn good alternative...
(I managed to bore myself to sleep writing this last night, it doesn't give me great hope that any of you will find this any more interesting...)
If any of you have missed my updates or subtle hints (or are just wank friends) it's my 23rd birthday on Saturday, I wasn't actually really looking forward to it till the last 24hrs. I am unlucky in a sense of where my birthday falls because it's pretty close to the beginning of the academic year. At school this was never a problem, I never saw it as a hindrance BUT then I went to uni and my birthday was about 2 weeks after arriving at university. I had made friends but no one like my girls back home and it was my first birthday away from any family, it was a strange experience. Don't get me wrong, I loved my Trefloyne birthday; there was a chicken nugget birthday cake for one but fast forward to my 22nd last year, my 90's birthday with the best friends I made a uni; people that know me so well, the two don't compare! (The middle birthday at uni was utter shite but we can all thank a certain ex for that). It's a completely different experience celebrating things with people who know you inside out, upside down and back to front. ANYWAYS yes I was super apprehensive about 23rd à Paris, will I actually have fun?? But some reassurance and making plans with some of the friends I have made here has left me looking forward too it. How often do you get a birthday in Paris anyway, I better make the most of it!!
E did me some beautiful artwork for my room today, she puts me to shame artistically...
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