>>jump>> DAY FIFTY FIVE

^ all the staffers from session 2^

(right to left, top to bottom: ariel, toe jam, booga, dwight, tofu, dude, zig zag, earl, miki, rooney (moi), bad P, mizzou)

OK
i could not keep up my blog very well because....my kids left, i went to paris, and then i came home to la mazure to meet all new coworkers and a new director.

and sorry...but it is LATE and i am going to bed. YIKES.

quickly-
PARIS was AWESOME
the new people are cool
and the new director is hardcore, all buisness
and it is still raining

LOVE YOU ALL
more later i promise

P.S. i am an english teacher this session! HA

DAY FORTYEIGHTNINE

hello

48: HOLLYWOOD DAY
we prepared sketches all day. then we preformed.
i was the host, i wore a cloak.
tofu and i preformed hey mr.dj by madonna, our only rule was that we could not move our feet. with straight faces we moved slowly and awkwardly for the entire song while tofu screamed the lyrics. it was awesome.
Toe Jam made half his body look like a woman and half like a man and then he sang A Whole New World and would sing the male parts showing the male side in profile and then flip around to do the girl parts. it was one of the funniest things i have seen in a long time. my cheeks hurt from laughing.

49: FANTASY DAY
today we will go to the MONT SAINT-MICHEL again.
i am excited! it is cold and rainy now so hopefully that changes soon.
i am SO refreshed because Dwight, Toe Jam and I slept outside on the picnic tables by the TPs! it was so fun. the sars here are GRAND! it got slightly cold and wet but it was so fun! i feel awesome today.

DAY FORTYSIXSEVEN

DAY OFF

dwight and i spent 9 hours at the art bar. awesome. we always talked about doing it and then finally accomplished our goal. we read art books, wrote things, drank tea and ate delicious food. the people that work there might hate us now.
i really want to go there tonight (but cant) because there is going to be an art performance. :( too bad, so sad, i must work.
since i have to remain here at la mazure, possibly for another month, i am doing some major organizing and prioritizing, i want things to run more smoothly than they have been.
i am going to paris again on the 30th for a couple days because i have a 4 day break for inter-session. i might go with some others or just by myself, i dont care. i just wanna get outa normandy. i am sick of the rain. it is a beautiful day today. the train ticket only costs me 20 euro so it will be worth it.
it was nice to talk to you the other day MOM and ALEX.
Today is SCIENCE FICTION DAY
we will do a spook walk tonight. time to scare the shit outa some kids. hehe.

DAY FOURTYTWOTHREEFOURFIVE

OOOO LA
sorry it has been so long moma.

42: HIT MUSIC DAY

(my life is on a two week repeat)

fun day. whatever.
dont really remember.

43: WILD WEST DAY

i had a lot of fun this day. that is all i remember.
O a kid dislocated his shoulder. that was wild.

44: VALENTINES DAY

fun day. kinda wierd like always, kids in love, hearts broken, awkward dancing.
I did a one armed slow dance with the boy who hurt his shoulder and now has to wear a sling.
that morning in the daily skit i played the boy who found a womans leg and went on a search to find the beautiful woman it belonged to. cinderella inspired. that was fun.

45: OLYMPIC DAY

today sucked. i was super stressed and it rained a lot. (however, i did have a rejuvinating run in the rain) i miss everyone at home. yes you! it is hard to keep in contact because of the time difference. sorry i dont call more. i also feel like people are going to slit my throught everytime i go on the computer. "you should be working." (translation: go walk around and pretend to watch the children play) i found out i will be staying at La Mazure for the next one, maybe two, sessions. that sucks. i really wanted to see another place. i need an adventure! i might venture to paris between sessions. but who knows. 2 other staffers are staying here two so that is cool, but we are getting a new director and other staff, that will be cool too, we def need some new faces around here. on the bright side, the food here is great and the site staff are awesome, and all the new staff will be men, and i know my way around, and we get to go to Mont Saint-Michel.
all is well. no need to worry. i will be in a much better mood later/tomorrow.
LOVE YOU ALL

DAY FORTYONE

BTW: this is the boy that I think looks like a young Bjorn. (the one with the girl, haha)
Today is my DAY OFF
and how perfect it has been!
i just woke, it is 12 o'clock.
last night Tofu and i went to the art bar after our meeting, we got there around 11:46. it was a sat night so it was bound to be good. this bar is in the middle of NOWHERE but it is so cool that people come from all over to expierience it. it is the same bar i was talking about before, the one we all had dinner at over intersession.
there was a 7£ cover, eeek, but we payed it and it was worth it. there were 3 bands, we missed one, but the others were good, then they had a DJ and we danced the night away! it was so fun! there was this crazy 60 year old couple dancing with everyone, they were so great. we made friends with these 3 french people that lived in Normandy. they spoke english to us and we spoke french to them, so we could all pracitce.
today...we have yet to make plans...i think next on the agenda is eat lunch.

CONTINUED

we ended up hitch hiking to Saint Hiler, a near by city. Being that it was sunday there was nothing open. we wandered and got pizza. then we hitch hiked "home" and joined the campfire that the kids were having. then i went to bed early.

DAY FORTY

WOAHO it is the 40th day i have been in this lovely continent.

So the theme today was american athletics day and surprisingly i loved it. i played football and taught baseball. i know, i know, ME teaching a sport...i wasnt very good at it, but it was fun. I am actually pretty damn awesome at throwing a football. who knew?
These new kids rock. (i always say that in the begining.)

tonight i am going to the artbar with tofu cause it is his birthday today and we have the day off tomorrow. YAY

LOVE FROM FRANCE

DAY THIRYNINE

Today was DISCOVER AMERICA DAY
LOL
this session is going so much smoother than the last, i can already tell.
gooooood.
there are two girls that are admitted smokers. One 14, one 16. They also had 2 cell phones each that they were hiding from us. we make them give all thier electronics to us. and they were crying today because the younger girls called them whores. They wear matching outfits and lots of makeup.
We dont have any really funny names this session. but we do have a Macgiver Snuggie. The family names are infomercials: Foreman (Rooney Foreman), the Shamwows, the Snuggies, the Bare Essentials, Magic Bullets.
I am feeling better.
The new people are cool. conservative. but cool. i WILL offend them at some point. I WILL. gaurenteed.
LOVE ROONEY

DAY THIRTYSEVENTHIRTYEIGHT

THIS IS WHERE I AM

37 FREEE DAY=TIME OFF

this was a good day? we relaxed all day...i wanted to go for a run or something, cause i feel like i never move, but i dont have proper running shoes.
mom, dont worry though, i bought bright pink shoes the other day.
We all went to town to go to the store. We found a manequin leg and a poster of a girl in a bikini on the street. great finds. we then knew it was going to be a great day.
We went to dinner at the best place on earth!!!!!!!! we call it the art bar, (Mizzou and Tofu discovered it on a day off from someone that picked them up when they were hitch hiking) It is an antique store/bar/restro/art gallery/venu. my cup of tea! they were playing really avant gaurde art films and they had a bunch of antiqes for sale and sculptres everywhere and awesome food and nice people!!!
i am going to spend all my days off there. it is down the river, so dwight and i are going to try and canoe there.

38 KIDS ARRIVE

today the kids come, and 2 new conselors, Earl and Toe Jam? a southern baptist, brother sister pair. apparently they are super cool. I am anxious to meet them. I wish the kids would come tomorrow, or the next. It is hot today. We are all sick. bring on the little french people.

DAY THIRTY SIX

Mont Saint-Michel

Me and da co-workaz

FAREWELL DAY

FINALLY

i started to hate them a little. Once kids get comforatable with you they start to be not nice and for some reason they seem to understand less of what i said.

farewell.

I liked them for the most part. loved some of them.

they are just so easily influenced and it is sad. barf. some of them thought they were royalty as well. barf. it is probably because these kid's parents are RICH! £££££££££££££££££££££££

and that is even better than $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ (is it still?)

it will be nice to have a day off to recooooop.

i am going to dye my hair tonight. and we are going to have a counselor BOOM!

oh, the girls straigtened my hair last night and instantly liked me more. "OH Rooney! you look so much beautiful" "OH Rooney! Its makeup!" oh french kids.