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weekend in parisssssss
well, I'm desperately trying to catch up on all the really amazing things that have been happening with in the past couple of weeks, and I am almost a month behind!!!! yikes ( Read more... ) -
petits chanteurs
I'm sure you heard me say over the past couple of entries that I have been teaching my little sixth graders a Beatles song. It was for the previously mentioned Portes Ouvertes, and was possibly the cutest thing I have every seen little children do. Especially french children. When we were practicing, it was fun- most of the students really ( Read more... ) -
rightt-- back in france again
well; sorry kids for the momentary lull in intersting stories... haha; but really- When I was in the states I was just so busy doing things that I didnt want to waste time writing about them; but right before I came back my computer cord broke; so i'm waiting for a new one! ha ( Read more... ) -
Valentine's dayyyy
Valentine's day was a couple of weeks ago-- and as I was still in France at that time, there wasn't much of a romantic celebration with my love, BUT there was a lot of fun times with people that I do love. I was afraid of being kind of depressed that night because I wouldn't have any plans, so I organized a dinner in my basement. It was really ( Read more... ) -
two important things
Today, two important things happened!
Thing number one: There was a fight between two students -- and I kind of helped to start it-(but not really)
Thing number two: one of my kids totally stuck up for me in the hall (the scariest part of a middle school)
So- the stories that accompany these incidents
Incident #1
Today in English club- there were these ( Read more... ) -
the Resurgence of the Earth
last week the art teacher- Daniel- who I am officially friends with these days-- asked me to chaperon a field trip with him! It was yesterday and it was AWESOME. I dont normally work on mondays so it was nice change to actually have a reason to leave the basement and get out into the city earlier than 2 or 3 in the afternooon. It was for the ( Read more... ) -
hmm--subjunctive mode
I found this really sweet church today in town. Its beautiful, and I went inside and it was so peaceful. I wish churches were like that still today ( Read more... ) -
Super, super tuesday/Mardi Gras
ai ai ai-- what a day ( Read more... ) -
oh oh oh
sooo, its february now.. monday too. but at least its not january anymore. I am really not a big fan of january-- and to top it off-- this year january had five weeks! five-- that seems a little unreasonable to me-- got a little greedy this year. ha.
I had a pretty big weekend though-- saturday was spent at Metz! Pamela, Gesine, Sonia and I ( Read more... ) -
ahh!
I totally made besties with Jana today! We are now offically friends! ah, finally-- its only been four months that i've been trying to hang out with her-- but she doesn't like to do things with other peole really-- a loner, kind of like myself these days. But today I saw here while I was cleaning the kitchen and she said hi-- then later, ( Read more... )