Voie Verte

The weather here has been crazily beautiful recently, with temperatures of 24 degrees and up, clear blue skies, and very little wind. We have spent our days trying to get through school as quickly as possible before ringing around to see who is free, grabbing our colouring books, a big blanket, some beers and heading to the Voie Verte. We have sat in the same spot so often now that we have actually squished the grass down where our blanket goes haha. Dog walkers and regular walkers recognise us as the weird bear drinking, bubble blowing bunch of franglais people. We’ve named the ducks, and know the names of numerous dogs and their owners, with our favourite being Lucky and Raphael. Sometimes, its a hard life here. Haha. Its crazy to think that is isn’t even the end of April and I actually have some colour!

Part 1 ~ Les Vacances

Today marks the end of a blissful, 17-day long, too good to be true, holiday. And tomorrow, the start of 7 full (well if 12 hours is full…) weeks of teaching that will bring us up to our Christmas holidays. I feel like this is going to be a huge shock to our systems as we have been here over a month now but I have only really had to teach for about 5 hours in total… Heres hoping that France will be typically french and give us some nice unexpected days off.

Anyways, I thought I’d fill you all In on what I got up to during my Holidays.

The short version:
1. My parents visited and we spent a few days seeing Bordeaux, Périgueux. Also managed to fit in a long awaited trip to Brantôme for Dad.
2. I had a wonderful 2 days of absolutely nothing bar watching tv and lying in bed in my pjs. Sounds sad I know, but I haven’t had a lie in since I got here and I had a LOT of TV to catch up on.
3. William visited which also consisted of being rather lazy, but I did show him the (few) sights of Périgueux. In the bid to be a good, on time friend I managed to get the wrong train, in the wrong direction, with none back any time soon, but that is a story in itself.
4. I went to Brussels and Ghent with William, Maeve and Steff. We stayed on a boat. That sums up the awesomeness of the trip perfectly.
5. It all came crashing back to earth with a weekend filled with lesson planning and drawing pictures for flashcards of witches, pumpkins and all things Halloween-y as I have no access to a printer/projector.

For the more interesting parts I’ll write a little bit more about what I did and add in some pictures, but for now here is what I have spent the weekend doing, I’m very proud of my wee Vampire, but I think my “monster” looks more like a robot…