I See London, I See France

Hello, everyone!

This update is coming to you from Rochester, from my own personal room (teacher's perks!) in a perfectly-typical English home. I was lucky enough to be invited on my lycée's six-day trip to London, and I have already had so much fun, and seen so many iconic places and buildings, that I would be happy going home tomorrow.  But guess what! I don't have to!! I get to see more! Yippee!!

I have no pictures, and I'm so tired that I'm not sure I could form cohesive thoughts to update you on everything we've done, but I wanted to let you all know I'm alive and well!  More than anything, I'm loving the time to get to know my colleagues and my students.  I have been so blessed to be surrounded by so many incredible people, and I love every awkward, somewhere-in-between-French-and-English moment that I've had so far, and I can't wait to creating semi-uncomfortable moments.

It's funny how life's hardest and most wonderful moments often arrive together, isn't it? Just a thought.

So much love to all.  I wish I could take all of you on my adventures with me. You are all in my heart.

Angie 

Angie's Awesome Americans Make Christmas Trees

A new week, a new club meeting! This week we made Christmas trees out of strips of paper.  Thank you, Pinterest!

Important Vocabulary

Believe me, these were fun to cut!

Making the trees!

Here's how one turned out! 

Our only boy!

The whole activity was a huge success! The kids all really enjoyed it, and they made great Christmas trees to take home to mom and dad.

However, my favorite moment of the whole meeting was right after we talked through the parts of the tree, and I told them I wanted to show them a picture of my Christmas tree.  So I shut the blinds, turned off the lights, and then turned on the projector, which slowly and ever-so-dramatically pulled up this picture of my Christmas tree from home.  It was so stunning that some of the students gasped. I couldn't have planned the moment better if I'd tried!

I hope you're all enjoying the most wonderful time of the year!

Lovesies,

Angie

Humor Me...

Yes, early morning flights can just be a pain in the butt sometimes, but look at this view!

Life is pretty good.

Lovesies,

Angie

Thanksgiving in Dublin

I love being in France, but it was wonderful to take a quick trip over to Dublin for Thanksgiving! I was able to celebrate my favorite holiday with a wonderful group of family and friends, and eat lots of delicious food!

Look at that gorgeous table!

Happy birthday to my favorite little sister!

I am so thankful for my family!

And for these goobers.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and that all of your radios are now on the Christmas station!

Lovesies,
Angie

Angie's Awesome Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving!

Bummed that you missed out on the fun of my first English Club meeting?  It's ok, friends, you can relive it here!

Pin the Football in the Goal

Every club member received a personalized football!

Angie's Awesome Americans!

and a selfie for good measure...

We started the club by singing "10 Little Indians", and I'll get that to you as soon as I can. It is way too precious!

Until next time,

Angie

A Quick Trip to the Coast

One of the benefits of where I live is my super-close proximity to the western coast of France.  On a train, I can get there in about 30 minutes to an hour and a half, depending on how classy of an establishment I want to visit.  So my roommate, Natalie, and I chose to take a drive to Le Croisic and Guerande.

Le Croisic

Hey, look! It's me!

Poor little guy!

 We stopped for a fabulous lunch at this petite creperie because it was just too cute!  We were about 10 feet from the woman making everyone's lunch. She probably thought we were hilarious/really creepy because we stared at her for pretty much the entire time we were there.  I tried to look away, but she was just such a master of galettes and crepes!

So much Christmas!

Creeping on my new favorite chef

And then we walked around and did silly things... 

I couldn't have asked for a better roommate!

After we had our fill of crepes and the Bay of Biscay, we made our way to Guerande: the fortified city, and home of delicious salt!

Fortification.

Really we just spent our time in Guerande looking through cute little shops, and buying souvenirs. And then we found the wall of pigs:

It took so much self control to not buy all of them!

Great day, great food, great cities!

Lovesies,
Angie