"Oh My Log!"

Highlights of the past week or so, in no particular order:

-I moved my bed and desk (to the only other place they fit...not a whole lot of interior decorating options in here, lol) and now it feels much more spacious in my room!

-Something seemed to click with me yesterday when I was at my troublesome school. It just felt better...though the kids were the same.

-The teachers in my schools all of a sudden started talking to me more this week! I dunno if they finally realized I'm gonna be around all year and they may as well speak to me, lol, or if it's cuz of the Holidays, but I like it!

-One of the teachers I work with invited me to her house on Thursday for coffee!! I was SO excited cuz I've heard of other assistants whose teachers invite them to do things, but it hadn't happened to me.

-I lit my two candles last night, turned on my mini string of christmas lights and read a French tabloid last night in the warmth of my little studio. It was great.

-A little 6 year old today instead of saying "goodbye" when I left shouted "I LOVE YOU!" hahaha I was laughing so hard as I walked out of that school.

-Harry Potter is officially coming to Orleans in English tomorrow! Guess I'll get to see it earlier than I thought :)

-Went to an amature improve night at the community center the other night and before the show we had to write a sentence going along the theme "end of the year" and then put it in a hat. During the show they had random audience members pick out the pieces of paper and read them. I got chosen to choose a paper and out of the probably 100 pieces of paper in there chose my own! CRAZY!

-Last week after one of my French classes my friends and I walked past a bar that we like and saw that there was music inside, so we decided to check it out. It was an American Folk Music night! With a guy from Indiana and a guy from France being the two artists. REALLY cool! It reminded me of the Root Note (which everyone here says I talk about too much...haha EUROPEAN PUBLICITY!)

I'm sure there is more, but those are the ones that come directly to mind. I have some pics on my phone from the Marche de Noel that I'll post on my photobucket account soon. Post coming soon: A Day In the Life Of Meg, France Edition.

It's beginning to feel a lot like Noel!

Hey guys! I feel like I've been miss negativity lately...sorry 'bout that. France has been rough for me the past month and a half, as you can tell, but I'm trying really hard to get past the homesickness and just enjoy what I have here. French class is going well and our teacher is a lively personality, indeed! My students are all really antsy and chatty lately because of the holidays, but I can feel the classroom/teaching thing getting easier for me...though I still have lots of problems with my CM1s and CM2s, but my "advisor" or sorts is coming on Monday to observe my CM1 and my CE2 classes in that school and help me figure out what I can do to achieve a more stable classroom with these kids.

One of my CE2 kids made me something the other day and gave it to me at the beginning of class. I was so tickled! It's supposed to be the American flag (which I taught them about during the first week of class), but he thought that 50 stars would be too difficult a feat for him, so he just drew one big one (this is what he told me), hehe. The back is supposed to say "Pour Meg....Mathieu," but it ended up saying "Pour Meogge" with the last "e" crossed out. It's great! :) I'm going to hang it on my wall.
As I mentioned in my second to last post, Christmas markets are big in France, and the Christmas market in our city center finally began (after about a week and a half of setting up) on Wednesday! It's great! (Expensive as all get out, but really fun!) They even have an ice skating "rink"...it's not really a rink, but more of a path, seeing as the entire market is located in a small plaza. It's 5 euros to reserve a spot on the rink (you have to call ahead to reserve a spot, as they only let a certain amount of people in at a time), so I'm thinking I'll be leaving the Christmas market ice skating to the families. Anyway, it just wouldn't feel like real ice skating without the risk of falling through the ice into a freezing pond of water and dead fish. Now THAT'S Christmas.

My friends and I tried to see Harry Potter in English the other day, but apparently the internet lies sometimes, and the local theatres didn't have it in English. I talked to the people I'm going to England with for break and we've decided to see the English version there. I'm so excited to finally be able to see it! I've heard good things...

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Never will I be a teacher.

This is how I feel in my CM1 and CM2 classes. I REALLY wish I could quit that school. It's not in the inner city or even near that, but it feels like this. I don't understand how some people CHOOSE to teach in these kinds of classes.