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!