Oops! I have a blog?

So here's the thing... i'm doing even worse at blogging this year then I did last year! What a feat! Sorry everyone! (So badly I haven't even told people I have a blog, so I think everyone is about three people...)

Thanks K for reminding me I'm supposed to be writing in this thing.

France is a bit like a roller coaster, but a really awesome roller coaster!  Especially in the beginning when everything was still so new, I was overwhelmed all the time!  Such highs, but also definitely some lows where everything seemed so overwhelming and I wondered who I thought I was that I could move to another country for seven plus months and teach English and speak a foreign language.

But I am just ending my first (10 day) vacation and, although I am not fully done with the overwhelmed bit, I am super happy here.  I am making friends, including spending a lot of time surrounded by German speakers (I am going to try to learn some German - but right now the only thing I can actually say is kanst du beatboxen - which means can you beatbox?; clearly I have a lot to learn).

Break was wonderful! I went to lyon for two day trips!  Went café hopping.  Went to Grenoble for another day trip - and took the tram up to the top of a mountain and got my first real view of the Alps!  Hung out with a German assistant, her family and a Swiss German assistant in the Parc de Pilats for a day (a natural park near here!) where we went for a hike, drank some café, had a picnic and walked around an old monastery!  But see the whole "I should learn German thing"?  As much as it's funny to have the four of them speak German for a while, and then I interject at the end with a big grin and nods and "ja ja ja ja!," I would rather use this as an excuse to pick up a bit of German.  Although they were also awesome about speaking French and English with me - super nice of them :)

It was nice to relax, get to know people, explore the area and see some beautiful and interesting man made and natural things around here.  I had planned to get ahead on lesson planning as well but... oops!  C'est la vie.