DAY THIRTYFOURFIVE

HOLLYWOOD DAY

i did not feel so hot this day but it was fine.

i slept in the TP the night b4 and last night.

we prepqred skits all day to preform at the spectacle that night.

My groups skit SUCKED. not even funny sucked, just sucked. I didnt feel like trying to persuade them to make it better.

at the specacle most skits were hillarious!! kids can be so witty, and then so awkward. it was fun.

GRADUATION DAY

Today is the LAST full day!!!!!!!! finally 14 days is a bit long to be with 50 11-15 year olds. They have gotten WAY to comforatable. They are just plain old nasty.

Then we had a boom. We set them up for a night of emotional torture. lets get a bunch of 13 year old couples that have been together forever (forever=3hours), dress them up, play a bunch of wierd songs that confuse thier hormones and tell them to have fun cause they will never see eachother again, turn the lights off and let em at eachother. awesome. We should really call booms sob fests. if i was collecting tears last night i would be swimming right now.

all the couples broke up ecept one...they made out the entire night...we have pics...thats wierd. everyone else was crying. what fun! all the staff were laughing and mocking them all night. it was grand. we are terrible. but it is hilarious.

DAY THIRTYTHREE

O

This

DAY

was

BLISS

We went to the GREAT mont Saint-michel today!!!

it was so great!

we walked for 4 hours through the sea. well kinda.  the tide goes down for 6 hours during the day around mont saint michel (a mountain with a monastery on it) 

so we walked through a field of 20,000 sheep and then through the sand. it was AMAZING! i walked in quick sand! it was sooooo bizarre! if you start jumping in certain spots in the sand it will turn into quicksand and you will be up to your knees in wet sand! it was soooo cool! the kids loved it. we had to have a guide tho cause people can get stuck in it and sometimes die.  apparently there was a japanese tourist that had to get helicoptered out of the sand! hahaha

it is not necessary to walk to get to the mountain but it is def a cool experience.  the entire time you are walking you can see the tiny mountain in the distance bet bigger and bigger (google a pic it is beautiful)  there were dead and dying fish, eatable sea cactuses and lots of mud! we were filthy! it was sooooo fun! 

when we got there we discovered that it cost to go into the monastery so we just went part way up> what a view! i really want to go all the way up at some point> maybe on a day off.   We are also going again next session.  I am sooo lucky! apparently it is the most visited place outside of paris in france.  

GREAT DAY IT WAS

DAY THIRTY TWO

Today was my lovely day off.
what a day.
got a ride to Ducey got some soif de coeur.
hitch hiked to Avranches.
shopped.
hitch hiked back.
whole day consummed.
so fun.
so fun.
gooooooood day.

DAY THIRTYONE

GOOD DAY

today was OLYMPICS DAY. (wierd i know)
We had relay races all day... and we made flags. Then we played Human Scavengerhunt. It was game show style and I was the host. i had a great outfit. I now have no voice.
good day. I wasnt tired.
Tomorrow is my DAY OFF
peanut and I might rent a canoe.


Update
my hair is long.
i am plus five pounds. (BREAD)
i eat well (see above)
i have zero clothes here.
i have the single ladies song stuck in my head.
my allergies are really bad at night and in the morning.
i love my people in MN
i love my new people in FR
life is goood

DAY TWENTYSEVENEIGHTNINE and THIRTY

ooops. havent blogged in awhile.

The days here have me all confused of the time of year. it was july then 1901 then february then april.
27- HIT MUSIC DAY
LOL
we spent the day listening to hit songs. french kids have terrible taste and zero rhythm.
the day was quite magical actually. We started the day by dancing to SLEEPYHEAD really loud with everyone. French love to dance, it is lovely.
That night we had a dance competition = awesome. I taught single ladies dance that day (i NEVER want to hear that damn song again) we ended up editing it to a more CA (camp appropriate) version. kinda lame. We also taught solja boy; cotton-eyed joe. This was the day i realized how easily influenced kids are and how much they love repetition. "AGAIN"
for the dance competition I was a judge dressed like a used paula abdul inspired blonde drunk with a bad tan. EPIC.
p.s. if you have not heard of Techtonic, youtube it. french kids go nuts.

28- WILD WEST DAY

this day was lame and i was tired. I had to sub for an english teacher. I started to hate the kids. they litterally pretend they dont understand me when I speak. I know they understand and it is extreamy frustrating. I like them again, but that day I wanted to_______(fill in the blank)
That night we had a lame carnival and I was the tattoo artist and I drew a bunch of stars on my face to makze fun of that dumb girl from belgium zho "fell asleep" while getting tattooed and woke with 53 stars on her face. ! and the kids didnt get the refrence and i ended up drawing stars on girls faces all night. hillarious. I drew a snake on a kids chest too.

29- VALENTINE'S DAY

This day was funny and wierd. We spent the day preparing for the Dance/BOOM we would have. The girls did thier hair and makeup. Hehe. and we had a candel lit dinner that ended up turning into a napkin torch festival. French kids are strange. They are all dating eachother. Relationships last 3 hours and there is no drama after the fact. We counselors are sooo confused. Patty + Spoon, Patty + Miles, Patty + Wayne, Patty + James, Patty + Ben. (Patty is a hussy)
The BOOM was fun. I danced the night away. and I had 4 tiny slow dances with 4 tiny french boys.

30- EARTH DAY
today was earthday. we had nasty pancakes for breakfast.
I subbed for english again today and had them conjugate the word RESPECT. They still dont get it.
We went on a hike, like a real HIKE. It was soooo long and treacherous. and we got LOST. ADVENTURE we titled it our character building day. The kids hated it. We walked all day.
I dont know how i am even awake. it is 1 in the morning.

BON NUIT

DAY TWENTYFIVESIX

Yesterday was the grand FORTH OF JULY it was so rowdy over here in france...not. we didnt really do much but make the theme of the day American History day. I wore all black. We went to the pool with all the kids...fun, untill the splash game started.
There are a bunch of british kids camping at the sight learning french and there is this old brittish man who likes to talk with us and tell us that england is the superior nation and that our huge american flag hanging outside is disgraceful (all in good humor of course). He is more british than anyone i have ever met...he strokes his chest when he talks and he has THE worst teeth I have ever seen besides the men with polio that I saw in Burma.
There are also these french delinquent kids here for some sort of retreat. They walk around smoking with thier baggy pants tucked into thier white socks in thier black adidas and greasy fo-hawks. (they are 16 btw) our kids are scared of them.
We had a campfire last night and made smores it was fun. I got to teach camp songs as well.

Today the theme is Hit Music Day and we are going to teach dances. (I was assigned single ladies)
I love the little french boys they are so funny. I taught them the nod greeting and it has been a hit.
LOVE

DAY TWENTY.FOUR

Today i had the day OFF.
i slept in, did yoga in the tp, cleaned, showered, decorated the residence, had lunch with the site staff, went to Avanches (a near by ville) with Bad P, bummed around, took the bus "home", ate 2 dinners.
and now...i am tired and full.

DAY TWENTY.THREE

HELLO

Today was gooood. first "real day". My mouth hurts from smiling. Ow. I love the kids, some are kinda nasty and disgusting. There are already some love affairs...HA.
I have a day off tomorrow...so I will SLEEP then Bqd P and I will get a ride to town for a couple hours. YIP.
Thats all really...i could tell dumb funny stories. but they are all "had to be there" stories.
LOVE

DAY 22

lets just start by saying OOOOOOOOOF

I went to paris last night so I could meet 43 children at the train station today and escort them on the train. OH MY 43 is a lot of 12-15 year olds. it was just me and Ariel the french girl, we totally broke the ratio rule. oops.

Paris last night was cool... i stayed in the hotel without ariel and met a lot of other AMVILLERS (what we call ourselves)
god everyone is so god damn high engergy here. everyone is so talkative! i have not stopped talking yet. (whats new?)

It is soooooooo HOT here. i want to go swimming very badly. VERY.

The kids are great. some speak english very well and others not so much. I have to talk in short, slow fragments, and i sometimes find myself talking like that to the other staff. haha. these kids have cell phone and comp time at this camp. I am watching the computer lab right now so i get to use the computer. cough-spoiled-cough. Girl scout camp would be hell for these kids. They do have to pay 800 euro for 14 days...
The food here is sooooooooooooo goooooooooooood!
being a vegetarian is not comon in france but the chef cooks very well for the 3 vegi people we have here! We had tofu today! the french dont know what tofu is!!! apparently the other sites do not have very nice food. we are spoiled here. def the best sight from the sounds of it. YES.

I am tired.

French kids love Miley Cyrus. ummm... ok.

We give the kids camp names and I have a jesus, a micheal jackson, a coffee man, a deek duke, a spoon, a kyno, a harry, a love, an adam and a kelly. GREAT. and our last name is E-Z. the theme was types of chairs. Lazy boy, stool (hahahahhaha), bean bag, rocking. Hillarious. next session is types of facial hair, the men are going to grow thier familys type.

My camp name is Rooney. Girl scout flashbacks. it is hilarious because the french kids have a very hard time saying it. "HOONEEAY" HA

We share a room. girls in one boys in another. beds suck. whatever. and the 3 french speaking counselors sleep in the same dorms as the kids. haha YES.

THERE IS A BOY HERE THAT LOOKS LIKE A YOUNG BJORN!!!!! i literally look at him and think it is him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i will take a photo. JUST LIKE HIM I SWEAR.

They will be here for 14 days. I have 2 days off. I like it here. sigh.

This was the best note i have left in awhile...haha... finally had time.

LOVE LOVE