So I’m back at my blogging. I think. Enjoy it.

This past week has been so much fun. I kind of like not having to go to school. Hahaha. That’s all over next week. So sad.

Last week it snowed. It was an event for me. I’ve counted, and it was the fourth time in my life I ever watched it snow. I opened my window, wrapped up in a blanket, and just watched it fall. The snow melted as soon as it hit the ground, but that was 6 stories below me, so I didn’t care. It was something cool. Some people were less impressed, and kind of amused by my fascination.

In the adults’ conversation class that I teach, we were talking about the weather. We were talking about the cold here, and I talked about the weather in California. One of the ladies asked me “Do you ever get tired of it being warm all the time?” The answer to that was a big fat NO.

I miss being warm. I miss looking at the sun and feeling warmth. Here, it seems the sun comes out for decoration only. I think that might have been a contributing factor to my recent case of the blahs.

And I finally got around to hanging out with the Katies. Every time we tried, something happened to make it not happen. They are lots of fun.

Wednesday, we went out to a bar, hung out, made fun of our writing teacher, and b.s.ed. It was fun.

On Friday, Katie Red (ok, wait, I have to explain. The Katies are inseparable. There is Katie Red and Katie Blonde. Just to be clear on which one I am talking about.) texted me, and wanted to know if I wanted to go to the Louvre, and then for drinks afterwards. Um, that was a no-brainer. So we met up, walked around the Louvre for a little while, looked at the Islamic Art section, and went off to the Bastille for drinks. We went to a cool dive-ish bar I had been to before. It was awesome, the bar was open all night, and I headed home around 6ish I think. I love love love the night busses.

On Saturday, I slept. Haha. When I woke up, I decided that it was time to book my flight home. I’ve been keeping an eye on prices, and it seems that the really cheap rates are going. (Of course, now that I have my ticket, there is going to be an insane price war…) It was actually a really sad moment for me, and as I was doing it, I was actually crying. It put a tangible end to this adventure.

Saturday night, I hung out with Sylvana. We had heard about a store out here that sells American things. It’s called the Thanksgiving Store. So we went. It was amazing. I bought Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. And we bought Brownie mix. You have no idea how much I miss certain foods from back home. Here I am in Paris, surrounded by amazing food everywhere (and believe me, I love it!), but sometimes all I can think about is the food that I can’t have. Like smoothies. Oh goodness, I could so go for Jamba Juice or Juice It Up right now. And we decided to make Swedish Meatballs. So amazing. Mmmmmmm.

And then Sunday morning, we met up with the Katies and went to an American diner for breakfast. It was great. Scrambled eggs, bacon, potatoes, and pancakes with maple syrup. Soooooo good. I hadn’t had pancakes in so long.

I’ve still got work. And a stomach virus has broken out among the kids. Great. I hope my immune system holds up. I just got done being sick. I don’t want it again. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

I think I broke the blahs. We’ll see. In the mean time, I will try to keep you up on what I’ve been doing. Promise.

I have some fun times coming up.

I have been terribly slacking on the blogs. I am sorry. I know you are always excited to read about what I’ve been doing. I have caught a horrible case of the blahs, and I can’t seem to shake it.

Since I last posted a half ass recap of what I’ve been doing… a lot has actually happened.

I made it through finals!!! Yay! They were ridiculous. My writing final was really hard. It took me two hours (when have I ever taken two hours to get through a test?). I was one of the first people done. And when I went to hand the teacher my final, she looked at me and was like “Done already? I am surprised.” And not in a nice way.

And my speaking class, that was just stupid. She had told us to read a book, and our final was going to be about it. So I spent a lot of time reading, re-reading, studying, etc., and then, she asks us one friggin question about the book, that I didn’t even really need the book in order to answer.

I did like my MICEFA class. On the last day of class, we did a walking tour of the Marais. It was really awesome, and of course, the weather was beautiful. We took our time, and the professor even asked if we wanted to go on longer. So a few of us did, and we ended in the Jewish neighborhood. The history in the Marais is so incredible. And then at the end, there were three of us left, so Prof. Tomi bought us Falafel. It was soooooo good.

Now I’m on vacation from school until Feb 12. Then a new semester of French fun starts. Can’t wait (notice the sarcasm…).

As for working, it is going good. I really consider myself lucky to have been placed in the school that I am in, even though the commute is still a pain in my ass. My kids are so awesome.

The one girl who had contracted Meningitis is better, she is actually back at school. She doesn’t seem to be 100%, but considering the first news about her after the Christmas break was that her condition was grave, seeing her is such a relief.

I am still babysitting, despite my attempts to quit. The mom called me right after Christmas, and asked me if I cut it down to one day, would I still be willing to do it. So I guess I will stick with it.

It had been “warm” here for a few weeks, temperatures getting up the mid 50s. That’s over for now. It dropped to the low 40s today, and is supposed to keep getting colder. Snow is to be expected. Yeck.

And the soldes. Oh my goodness the soldes! I love the soldes! Soldes are these government mandated sales. It’s basically a big clearance sales, and they happen twice a year. I had been waiting for the soldes to buy some winter clothes. I got some stuff from the Gap (oh so French, I know), and I was really lucky, and able to get a jacket that I had wanted for 30% off. Woo hoo! And I splurged and got a Lacoste hoodie.

I really promise to try to make an effort to keep up a blog like I did before the break. I do have some exciting times coming up, I hope.

So it’s been a while since I blogged, sorry.

Christmas break was fun, my brother came out. We hung out in Paris, saw museums, went to bars, all the fun stuff. It was great seeing him.

I spent the week after he left being sick during the day, and going out at night. I’m sure I wasn’t helping my cause. But it was really nice, I just took it easy.

New Year’s was fun. I didn’t go to the Eiffel Tower, kind of didn’t want to be around that many people. I went to a party with my friends Patrick and Marie. It was a lot of fun.

Then this week has been a back to school/ work week. I was actually really happy to see my kids, and they were all great.

I found out that one of the girls in my 8 year olds class contracted meningitis, which is sad. I don’t know how severe it is, but I hope she will be ok.

School is school, and I will be glad to be done with this semester.

Due to a lot of things, I have decided to not pursue the second bachelor’s in French, and stay with the minor. It will make life a lot easier for me.

That is it in a nutshell. Sorry for the lack of updates. Now that I’m back into my real life routine, and not the life of a slacker, I should be able to write more.