Blogs from Angers, Pays-de-la-Loire, France, Europe - page 5

I am not good at keeping up with this thing. Which is horrible , because the more funny and amazing experiences happen every day! I really need to keep up with this! We had some ham and butter baguettes this morning then took the bus to my apartment to cut my hair! She did a fabulous job! And saved me a lot of money, since haircuts are so expensive. We hung out for a while, then headed into Centre Ville to take the our French class we take every Wednesday from 17h30 until 19h30. It’s a FREE class, and it’s going over the subjunctive right now, which I am horrible at. I basically never use it, so this is a great review for me. Then we headed to Lydia’s foyer and made some stir-fry. I eat ... read more

My sister’s birthday! She is 20 today…WHOA. So old. I had two classes today. I LOVE my 1030 class, there is only 5 of them and we get to talk so much! I am really going to get to know them and they all get so many more chances to talk. We did a “Becoming American” exercise where I asked them to imagine being an American. Their answers are so funny…they choose such typical American names, say they will eat at McDonalds, and of courses they are all rich and live in Los Angeles or New York! My afternoon class was not good at first. It was all girls, 8 of them. Eight 18 year old girls and me. Not a good combination. For some reason, my girl students are very standoffish at first and enjoy ... read more

Ryan and my anniversary today! 4 years. I miss him more than ever today, of course. Only 2 months and 9 days until I see him again So this work week I will actually work more than like 4 hours like I did last week. Let me try to explain for how the schedule is set up. I work a total of 12 hours per week, but I have around 16/17 classes that I teach, I am still not really sure! The reason it is so many is because many of the classes come only once every two weeks. It makes lesson planning easy for me so far though. For every class I have taught so far, I just give a presentation about myself and a little about America, and then have them ask whatever questions ... read more

These past couple weeks have been amazing. Today is exactly two weeks in France. A lot has happened since then. I feel like I have known my friends here forever and already don’t know what I would do without them! I started teaching on Monday. I had two classes Monday, where the professor was present and the students all asked me questions about myself. The students in these classes were about 16 and 17 years old, like Junior in high school. I was really intimidated and nervous before I began, but the students are really interested and actually very nice and respectful, at least for now. Let’s hope it stays like this. But anyways, in the two different classes I just talked about myself a lot while they asked me questions about my life, such as ... read more

fun facts about my stay in france and things i enjoy saying - 10. the number of mcDonalds passed en route to our hotel in paris - 12. the number of wines sampled at the degastation in Saumur - 1. 1 angry russian - 24. in the last 24 hours hours i have graduated university, moved to yet another new country, and said goodbye to some really great friends. - 3. the number of 'satisfaction overloads' experienced on the first day of the paris trip - 4. the number of Dali museums visited in Belgium and France - 1. 1 sacred grotto and bishop encounter - 30. i have lived off a diet of tomatoes and bread for 30 days. - 7. the number of countries left to visit before noel - 1month. my new cousin ... read more