GREETINGs
Today was HOLLYWOOD day (again, again)
it was a glorious day. the weather was perfect and i barely had to work.
I was the host again for the spectacle this evening so i did not have work with the children today. good thing, cause they are really getting on my nerves. i love em though.
at the spectacle mizzou and i did a dramatic reading of a french song translated to english called "talk to the hand". it was funny.
we also did "steamroller" with all the counselors. its that thing that little kids (at least me) did at sleepovers. you are all laying next to eachother on the ground and a person on one end yells "STEAMROLLER" and rolls over everyone and then the next person goes. it was funny cause we have this really huge guy on our team and he rolled on us.
DAD i got the letter you sent me today!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i LOVE it!!! it was one of the nicest things ever!!!! thank you sooooo much it made my day!!!!!!!!!
LOVE YOU!
Mizzou and I are going to Nantes for intersession! i am soooo excited we are getting a free ride there with Tux! it is going to be a cheap adventure!
bisous mes amies!
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
DAY SIXTYFOUR
ITS MY BIRTHDAY
whatevs
i had a very nice day.
i had the day off with mizzou and we started the day by traveling to carrefore (france's walmart). we bought some nice things like cidre, cactus gummies, chocolate, baggette, cheese, postcards with giraffes on them, and glue sticks. then we walked to downtown ducey where we were presently suprised by a street market. we got crepes for 80 cents! there were tons of fruit and fish stands and a very strange jewlery stand selling things from claire's (yes like the tacky jewlery store in american malls). we then sat on the steps of a chateau and ate bread and cheese and drank cidre. then we hitch hiked home and hung out and listened to every CD we own and ate more bread and cheese. after our chill sesh we walked to les biards and went to the cafe that is NEVER open, but today it was! pure magic. old men made fun of me because i was wearing a birthday hat, they tried to read it and couldnt. after that we walked to a beautiful old cemitary. next to the cemitary there was an old haggered woman smoking a cigarette and burning brush. she was creating a lot of smoke, her turkeys could barely breathe. We then went to a pattieserie and mizzou bought a pastrey and we walked home. we were pooped by the time we got back so i napped with the dog. i never nap, i feel strange.
we ate dinner with the kids and they sang to me like 4 times and i got some nice notes. ZIG ZAG gave me the best gift ever!!! she (with the help of mizzou and brown sugar) made an entire deck of cards for me with pictures from camp on every card!! it is so nice. one of the best things i have ever recieved. apparently i saw her making it multiple times and i was too oblivious to realize. ha. she put so much time in to it!
i am still wearing my birthday hat and it is almost midnight.
i have to plan a lesson for tomorrow.
whatevs
i had a very nice day.
i had the day off with mizzou and we started the day by traveling to carrefore (france's walmart). we bought some nice things like cidre, cactus gummies, chocolate, baggette, cheese, postcards with giraffes on them, and glue sticks. then we walked to downtown ducey where we were presently suprised by a street market. we got crepes for 80 cents! there were tons of fruit and fish stands and a very strange jewlery stand selling things from claire's (yes like the tacky jewlery store in american malls). we then sat on the steps of a chateau and ate bread and cheese and drank cidre. then we hitch hiked home and hung out and listened to every CD we own and ate more bread and cheese. after our chill sesh we walked to les biards and went to the cafe that is NEVER open, but today it was! pure magic. old men made fun of me because i was wearing a birthday hat, they tried to read it and couldnt. after that we walked to a beautiful old cemitary. next to the cemitary there was an old haggered woman smoking a cigarette and burning brush. she was creating a lot of smoke, her turkeys could barely breathe. We then went to a pattieserie and mizzou bought a pastrey and we walked home. we were pooped by the time we got back so i napped with the dog. i never nap, i feel strange.
we ate dinner with the kids and they sang to me like 4 times and i got some nice notes. ZIG ZAG gave me the best gift ever!!! she (with the help of mizzou and brown sugar) made an entire deck of cards for me with pictures from camp on every card!! it is so nice. one of the best things i have ever recieved. apparently i saw her making it multiple times and i was too oblivious to realize. ha. she put so much time in to it!
i am still wearing my birthday hat and it is almost midnight.
i have to plan a lesson for tomorrow.
Monday, August 10, 2009
DAY SIXTYTHREE
^me and my leg that i found on the street^
^quick sand at mont saint-michel^
^the camper called Jesus (notice the name tag and placement) this is an average day^
all i have been doing for the past hour is watching the second hand on the clock tick by untill it is my birthday. 40 minutes and counting.
just kidding, that is not what i have been doing.
i only look everyonce and awhile.
i dont know why i care, but maybe because i was getting an excessive amount of teenager jokes today. "haha, its cause you are still a teenager! haha"
but not tomorrow folks. muahaha!
edward update: now he is litteraly popping out of nowhere! he is everywhere i am...barking.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
DAY SIXTY TWO
Today:SCIENCEFICTION
i did a lot of not a whole lot.
we did a spook walk this evening and i scared the shit out of a few kids. i love looking dead. hannah, this would be your favorite day.
edward update: he told the kids that if they touch rooney, they touch him. HAHA.
he also found where i was napping and knocked on the window and laughed. wierd. o edward.
i think mizzou and i are going to try to go to nantes over intersession. there must be something cool there if a Bierut song is written about it.
i did a lot of not a whole lot.
we did a spook walk this evening and i scared the shit out of a few kids. i love looking dead. hannah, this would be your favorite day.
edward update: he told the kids that if they touch rooney, they touch him. HAHA.
he also found where i was napping and knocked on the window and laughed. wierd. o edward.
i think mizzou and i are going to try to go to nantes over intersession. there must be something cool there if a Bierut song is written about it.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
DAY SIX_ZERO AND SIX_ONE
60: I WENT KYAKING
this was sooo fun. (the french use the same word for this and that)
we had a small group of children in canoes and us grown ups were in kyaks. we explored the river, sang pochontas songs and got an arm work out.
then we played a game (fyi there is a basketball court on the water for boats) and we played canoe and kyak b ball, its very hard, but awesome and exciting. it started to get pretty intense. and all of a sudden the biggest (like BIG, bigger than I) boys at camp, who happened to be in a canoe together, were heading straight for me at ramming speed. and then i was in the water, clothes and all. "WATER FOREVER" thats what the kids yelled! it was sooo funny! then they all jumped in with me! it was soo funny...and fun!
def a good good good day.
later that night we went to a concert/exhibition given by the boys choir. O BOY those boys can sing. the age range is HUGE! 6-60! the littlest one barely sang he just picked his nose it was soo cute! some of them could sing sooooooo HIGH! it was increadible!
we finished the great day by sleeping in the TPs...cold as usuall, but fun as usuall (for me anyway, others hate it)
61: VALENTINE'S DAY
i have a problem. a little boy is in love with me. he tells me he loves me everytime i see him and he is always staring at me and he latches on to me and barks like a dog. it is wierd. but kinda funny. and super creepy. his name is edward and i believe he is suffering from short-term memory loss, he has the memory of a fish, he will literally ask you something 18 times before he remembers the answer. i will deal with the problems as they come i guess.
We had a fun boom this night.
this was sooo fun. (the french use the same word for this and that)
we had a small group of children in canoes and us grown ups were in kyaks. we explored the river, sang pochontas songs and got an arm work out.
then we played a game (fyi there is a basketball court on the water for boats) and we played canoe and kyak b ball, its very hard, but awesome and exciting. it started to get pretty intense. and all of a sudden the biggest (like BIG, bigger than I) boys at camp, who happened to be in a canoe together, were heading straight for me at ramming speed. and then i was in the water, clothes and all. "WATER FOREVER" thats what the kids yelled! it was sooo funny! then they all jumped in with me! it was soo funny...and fun!
def a good good good day.
later that night we went to a concert/exhibition given by the boys choir. O BOY those boys can sing. the age range is HUGE! 6-60! the littlest one barely sang he just picked his nose it was soo cute! some of them could sing sooooooo HIGH! it was increadible!
we finished the great day by sleeping in the TPs...cold as usuall, but fun as usuall (for me anyway, others hate it)
61: VALENTINE'S DAY
i have a problem. a little boy is in love with me. he tells me he loves me everytime i see him and he is always staring at me and he latches on to me and barks like a dog. it is wierd. but kinda funny. and super creepy. his name is edward and i believe he is suffering from short-term memory loss, he has the memory of a fish, he will literally ask you something 18 times before he remembers the answer. i will deal with the problems as they come i guess.
We had a fun boom this night.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
DAY FIFTY9
HELLO
today it is RAINING. i dont know why i am suprised. we didnt go on our hike because of it.
i taught the thriller dance today...again. the kids liked it.
I RECEIVED THE GREATEST MAIL TODAY
a birthday present from mommy and friends! best thing ever! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!
i screamed and showed everyone your pictures.
i know i should have waited to my birthday, but i was toooooo excited.
we had a campfire last night and invited the all boys choir and the handicaped people and we showed them how to make s'mores and the choir sang the star spangled banner for us! it was awesome!
today it is RAINING. i dont know why i am suprised. we didnt go on our hike because of it.
i taught the thriller dance today...again. the kids liked it.
I RECEIVED THE GREATEST MAIL TODAY
a birthday present from mommy and friends! best thing ever! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!
i screamed and showed everyone your pictures.
i know i should have waited to my birthday, but i was toooooo excited.
we had a campfire last night and invited the all boys choir and the handicaped people and we showed them how to make s'mores and the choir sang the star spangled banner for us! it was awesome!
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
DAY FIFTY8
POOL DAY
today i didnt have to go to the pool!
i lucked out again.
i got to stay here at the beautiful and strangely HOT la mazure all by myself to plan the evening program witch is campfire. meaning, almost 0 planning. we are inviting the boys choir that is staying here and the group of handicapped people...it should be fun to have new faces. and both groups are going to sing for us! i got to sleep outside today and walk on the trails and be in the RARE normandy sun.
it was a great day.
today i didnt have to go to the pool!
i lucked out again.
i got to stay here at the beautiful and strangely HOT la mazure all by myself to plan the evening program witch is campfire. meaning, almost 0 planning. we are inviting the boys choir that is staying here and the group of handicapped people...it should be fun to have new faces. and both groups are going to sing for us! i got to sleep outside today and walk on the trails and be in the RARE normandy sun.
it was a great day.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
DAY FIFTYSEVEN
ok. i am just going to start with today instead of backtracking. (i will later, when i have lots of energy to pour into the computer)
Today is day 3 with new campers and staff.
and it is my day off! i am off with the new french girl named Coco. she has a family friend near by that is going to pick us up and take us somewhere/anywhere and hopefully everywhere. she didnt want to hitch hike, so she insisted we go with these people. it will be fun to do something new since i found out i will be here at LA MAZURE till the end of my contract, meaning i will be in normandy france for a total of 8+ weeks. shit. I like it here, but i would like a change. pretty sure mizzou (the other girl who has been with me from the start and will be till the end) and I are the only 2 people who have ever stayed at one site for 2 months in AMVILL history. shit.
it will be fun tho, the new people are cool.
i have to go now. TTYL yall.
BISOUS
CONTINUED
so the family frend of COCO picked us up and he is this really liberal, loud, man that lives in LA and hates the united states. majority of the things he talked about had to with how france was better than the us. it was kinda funny. he took us to his parents house near by and it was a beautiful french country home and the nice old people cooked local delicacies for us and practiced thier english with me. it was very nice.
then we went to Granville, a bigger city and walked around and shopped a lot. then we came home and went to the "english" bar for dinner. (it is owned by british people and ALL english people go there, it is strange)
it was a GREAT day off.
G2G
Today is day 3 with new campers and staff.
and it is my day off! i am off with the new french girl named Coco. she has a family friend near by that is going to pick us up and take us somewhere/anywhere and hopefully everywhere. she didnt want to hitch hike, so she insisted we go with these people. it will be fun to do something new since i found out i will be here at LA MAZURE till the end of my contract, meaning i will be in normandy france for a total of 8+ weeks. shit. I like it here, but i would like a change. pretty sure mizzou (the other girl who has been with me from the start and will be till the end) and I are the only 2 people who have ever stayed at one site for 2 months in AMVILL history. shit.
it will be fun tho, the new people are cool.
i have to go now. TTYL yall.
BISOUS
CONTINUED
so the family frend of COCO picked us up and he is this really liberal, loud, man that lives in LA and hates the united states. majority of the things he talked about had to with how france was better than the us. it was kinda funny. he took us to his parents house near by and it was a beautiful french country home and the nice old people cooked local delicacies for us and practiced thier english with me. it was very nice.
then we went to Granville, a bigger city and walked around and shopped a lot. then we came home and went to the "english" bar for dinner. (it is owned by british people and ALL english people go there, it is strange)
it was a GREAT day off.
G2G
Sunday, August 2, 2009
>>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
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