So once again, I have fallen way behind on my blogging. And you don’t have any clue what is going on with me. Sorry. I’ve been busy, and a blog is sometimes the furthest thing from my mind.

The end has begun for me.

A couple of weeks ago was my last night of babysitting. (I passed the rest of it onto Sylvana.) I plan to have dinner with the family one last time in July. That was sad, the mom and I had kind of grown close, she seemed pretty sad to be done with me.

And now I am done with the Universities here. Yay! My classes were quite interesting. I find it no coincidence that the French for Foreign Students (Francais pour les Etudiants Etranger) department in abbreviated F.ET.E. For those of you who don’t know French, fête is the French word for party. It was interesting, and I met a lot of cool people from different countries. It was a bit of a bummer that I didn’t have real French University studies, but tant pis for me.

It was still quite an experience. And now I can brag that I went to the same university as the future president of France.

Work is winding down, my last day is June 29th. I have been having fun with the kids, and man am I going to miss them. My older kids did so well on their final evaluations, and I am so proud of them. They worked really hard, and it is also affirming to me that I did the job I was sent here to do. (The evaluations were about the only thing I was responsible to, I was pretty independent in my job this year).

The job was overwhelming at first, and there were a few stress points and bummers, but now, I have nothing but good things to say about it. The kids are amazing, the teachers (for the most part) are very supportive and helpful, and everyone treats me like a rockstar here.

So, what has been going on in Paris lately?

Lots of wine, sunshine, rain, and hanging out with friends.

A couple of weeks ago, a friend came out and visited me from California. And we went to London.

I’m kind of done with London I think. It was my third time there, and really, I’m done.

One of the coolest things I saw while I was in England was Stonehenge. Wow. But, of course it didn’t go all perfectly. I had booked a trip that was going to allow me to go to the inside and actually touch the stones. And when I called to confirm 24 hours in advance like I was supposed to, they told me they had no record of me. So I wasn’t going. They offered to let me go on a different trip, but I wasn’t going to be able to go inside Stonehenge, just see it from afar.

So that’s what I did. At least I got to see it. But it threw off my trip. Oh well.

I still got to see some cool things. Other highlights included: A Jack the Ripper walking tour, a London Tour, the London Eye, the Imperial War Museum, Madame Tussaud’s, and Abbey Road.

So in the next few weeks, I will be visiting Prague and Budapest, and gearing up for some awesome trips in July. And I will try better to keep you more up to date.

On a down note, the good-byes have also started. My friends have started going home. There are some people here that I have grown close with, and it’s going to be awesome to have friends spread out all over the US.