Fondue, l'Orangerie, French kids!

I'm back!.....not that you missed me ha ha.

Sorry for the long break. Last week was midterms, so I was a little bit busy. Also, I didn't have too much time to go out and do exciting things (although I know you would have loved to read a post about me studying in my room!).

Here's a quick recap: I did find that Mexican restaurant again and it was even better the second time! This past Thursday I went out to a fondue restaurant for a friend's birthday and let's just say it was an interesting experience...

 They served wine in baby bottles...?

Definitely a tourist trap, but it was still fun. I went out for another birthday on Friday and then just relaxed Saturday and Sunday.

Monday I decided I needed to get back into tourist mode, so I went to l'Orangerie with a friend. It's probably one of the smallest museums I've ever been in, but it was pretty cool. The most famous thing there is  Monet's Nymphéas.

 So pretty!

 There were two big rooms of these!

There was also some other random stuff that caught my eye.

I started my internship (finally) at a middle school (un collège) last week. I'm working there Tuesday and Friday for about 3 hours each day. Tuesday I have an English club that I lead and then two hours of assisting a teacher. Friday I have 2 different sessions of an English club and I also eat lunch with some of the students. It's been a pretty good experience so far. It's fun to be around kids and it's really intereseting to see the differences in school. Just a couple of observations...the kids come into the room and stand up behind their chairs until you tell them to sit down...very strange for me. They learn British English so they say things like "I have got one brother" and "I have to hoover my room" (hoover means vacuum...it took me a while to understand this). It should be a really good experience!

Tonight I went with my theatre class to see a play called Quelqu'un comme vous (Someone Like You). There were only two actors in it (apparently one was a really famous actor and the other was a pretty famous singer....but of course I don't remember their names) and the whole show took place on a beach, so there wasn't too much action. The slow pace of the show combined with it starting at 9pm (ugh) and being in French (evidently) made me lose interest towards the end, but the first 45 minutes was pretty good. Here's a picture of the stage.

Sorry for the bad picture quality. I was afraid the usher was going to come yell at me.

Random picture, but I successfully made eggs (admittedly with a lot of help- I don't have much experience cooking non-vegan food) this weekend!

Life update: I'm planning on staying here for the summer, so I'm in the process of finding a job/internship, place to live, classes to take, extending my visa, etc. Lots of work...

Another random note, my parents are coming to visit next week, so I'm looking forward to that!

Here's a quote for the day:
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."- Thomas Merton


I wanted to post on March 10th, but I was super busy and didn't have a chance to. So I'd just like to say that I was definitely thinking of Gerry last Thursday, as I do almost every day. In honor of him and the 6th anniversary of his death here's an extra quote from his original adaptation of Charlotte's Web:

"You are the miracle, you are the vision. You made it possible, things can change. On behalf of the children whom new life you've given, you are the miracle of my life."