Europapark

Woah.

I'm STILL tired.

We went to Europapark yesterday, and it was craziness. 3 years ago I didn't go on any rollercoasters when we went to Wonderland. Now...The only ones I DIDN'T go on was because we didn't have enough time.

That's right. I have conquered Silver Star, highest coaster in Europe. Behemoth, you got NOTHING.

Pictures will go up in due time. Don't lose hope, I'm just lazy getting them off my camera.

I slept until 2 today. THAT'S how tired I was.

Finally a Dinner

Last night Lauren and I went to a dinner with Petra (Ms. Christov) and a few of her friends.

I'm being treated like an adult. This is ridiculously fun. I mean, who else can say they've had dinner with their teacher?

Good luck trying to think of me as a kid once I come home.

But it was nice, we spent more than 3 hours at a Japanese restaurant eating and talking and drinking (no alcohol for me, as much as I wanted some Sake...) and just living like a group of people having a good time together. There were also many Canadian jokes supplied by Petra. I'll have to get her back for that.

Also, this is the SECOND time I've been told I have little or no accent when I speak. Now I just need to figure out the rest of the language.

À Bientôt.

Suddenly Rotary! Everywhere!

That was a massively tiring weekend.

It was the district conference, which was interesting. 4 of us boys from Youth Exchange had to learn how to Square Dance from the EGE group from the states. I don't remember any of it, but there's video's floating around somewhere.

We were paraded around a lot, then it was off to Vescemont for the night.

Which was an interesting time, french and english were both spoken in tremendous amounts. Games were played, people were met. It was a good time. There were Inbounds, Outbounds and Rebounds abounds. And I can't think of any more words that can rhyme in that sentence, but anyway. Everyone had a great time. I liked meeting the girl that was in the Yukon last year. There doesn't seem to be ANY interest in Canada. Maybe that's because of our history of kicking the French's ass?

Anyway, sunday was just as funny. We were woken up around 8 (not as fun) for breakfast. We then proceeded into a tiny little town around Vescemont...Girodame or something...And watched a parade of cows. They stopped in a large area and it was a festival of sorts. They also peed. A LOT. And pooped. And peed on other cows. And tried to mount other cows, which was wierd.

Pictures were taken, but I'm still having difficutly with the camera.

Apparently I'm considered a colleague now, and we're arranging a dinner with a bunch of teachers for friday night.
Which will be followed by copius amounts of sleep. Because holidays start next week. Hooray! Europapark and SLEEP. I remember sleep fondly, like an old friend I never see anymore. It'll be nice to hang out again.

A bientôt.

Art is Arp

Musée de Art Moderne.


It's weird.

Cool, even "sweet as" as the new zealanders would say.

But bloody hell, it's wierd.

Still, a good day of half school and hanging out. Looking forward to checking out some other museums.

Later

Shoplifters!

My friends and family,

I sit before you, a stupid, STUPID man. Adam and I met up for lunch outside Lucie Berger today, and we headed over to the supermaket to buy some sanwich making materials. We then headed out to a DIFFERENT supermarket to buy drinks, because they're cheaper there.

We didn't take receipts.

Hilarity ensued as we were accused of stealing some ham and cheese. We were dragged down into the security office and given speeches and yelled at and all the stuff that happened. Over Ham. and Cheese. I mean seriously, it's was worth about 3€. Would we really keep lying after we had gone through all their crap?

They let us go eventually, but not without a 'stern talking to'.

That's a good story.

EDIT

Forgot something, managed to help two Japanese tourists. In french. They thought I was one of the froggies. Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiierd.

Paaaarty.

A bunch of Rotary students met up in Stras yesterday, it was a fun time. There was around 15 or so of us, and we just hung around. It was good to see everyone and spend some time together.

After that, the few people that were left had a bit of a party with ourselves, it was a good time. I crashed at Adam's place and we did manly things, like wrestling bears and growing out our beards and smoking cigars.

I also have a bridge to sell someone if they're interested...

But fun was had. We're going to the Art museum with a bunch of people and then we have the weekend in Belfort next weekend, so even more fun will be had.

First week

The first week of helping here went very well.

Sure, I actually have stuff to do now, but it's really fun. I made a little game for today's history class with 'The Nationals' (kids who are from english speaking countries, but live in France) that was all about Hieroglyphs and the Rosetta Stone. It went over well.

I'm also going to be working with a little boy named Matthew who just arrived here a few months ago. Not exactly sure what I'll be doing, but it should be good.

VERY tired though...

I've organised some sort of gathering of Rotary tomorrow, and Dr. Christov has arranged a dinner with me, Lauren (student from Boston College), and two of her friends that are closer to my age for sunday.
I feel so responsible and adult.

C'est tres étrange.

Assitant de Madame Cristov

I am wholeheartedly enjoying this.

Granted, my schedule now begins at 8 toujours, not cool.
But it's fun.

Think of it as a co op course from highschool, but in france. And I'm given almost all the freedoms that the other assitant from Boston Uni is given. Which is cool.

I'm observing, commenting, and helping teach.

This is fun.

And the teacher I'm helping is my Civ teacher, so we already know each other. That part was cool.

À bientôt.

Woohoo!

So my schedule has changed.

I'm now going to be assisting one of my english teachers at the bilingual middle school in our group of schools. I'll be doing the same kind of work as a girl from Boston University, so Battilana better give me credit for this.

I still have my normal english classes at the school, because I've been learning a small bit of french there. I'm also going to be having extra french lessons on wednesday mornings, so I should be speaking this language very soon.

I'm able to form many simple sentences now. And I can read the questions on tests. I just don't know the anwsers in french.

Life is good now. I just hope it's not karma setting me up for a nice kick in the groin. It's happened before.

À bientôt.