DAY SEVENTY FOUR

I DONT HAVE TO GO TO THE POOL TODAY
neeeeener neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeener.

i got to plan campfire today. YES. and there is nothing to plan so i got to nap. YES. i am half asleep at the moment.

DAY SEVENTY THREE

these kids. o geez.
dramatastic. one girl almost died today "".
donkey kong is a little butt head.
rainbow bright's parents are complaining to NACEL because we are "so terrible"
sahara is a liar.
peach doesn't eat.
chainsaw and nesquick dress like girls (thats actually pretty funny)
latoya attacked tux and broke his necklace and he cried all night.

i did have a nice day tho, i got to do a lot of relaxing. OZ (the new counselor, who is a lot like carolyn, she is pretty awesome) bought some cheese and we ate it, it was fun. i love cheese. who am i? not goat cheese, and definitly not camenbert.

DAY SEVENTY2

AND SO,

today...eyyy yiiii yiiii.

these kids are going to suck my soul out. they have more attitude than...well, um, something with a lot of attitude, you fill in the blank.
today one kid was so rude to me that CJ (director) had to talk to him and he cried and now he is scared of me. all they do is roll thier eyes.
hopefully they start to understand that they are not the hottest shit on earth and they will have some fun. (rich frenchies, i tell ya) they wear designer everything, heels to dinner, and they swish thier glowing locks away from thier eyes to see as they tie thier expensive adidas.

i am teaching level one english and i like them cause they are the nice quite 11 year olds. so thats a plus.

we all just want to be positive and get outa here. haha. its good tho, dont worry. hehe.

MISS YALL

DAY SEVENTY ONE

ALORS

last night the little dinner party was very nice. i got to meet éric's roommate and friend. they are great. they live the simple life. "the simple life is the good life". we sat and talked in franglais for hours. it was fun.

this morning we woke at 6. shit. and then we went to the train station to catch our 7:25 train. it was the fast train so it wasnt bad. we got to avranches at 10:15 and to our dismay there were no buses till 12 so we just hitch hiked back. and then walked for 30 minutes with all our stuff. i have marks from my bag on my shoulder. oi. mizzou and i were back before the others so i got to shower and relax. the others returned shortly from paris, all in a terrible mood. yay. but they did bring a newbie, OZ, she is really cool, she lives in amsterdam at the moment and is originally from Madison, WI!! that makes me happy. we got another new french counselor because tux is gone now, his name is dizzy and he is crazy. nuff said.
today was long. it is late. the kids are older this time. all they do is roll thier eyes. i am teaching level one english (yikes). everyone here is in a bad mood so i am trying to be overly wierd to lighten the mood, it works sometimes.
i was a MN mom in a skit, it was my favorite costume yet.

goodnight lovas.

DAY SEVENTY

70!

Cete jour we woke at 10. so much sleep again! it is grand. the cutty cats were in our room all night making all sorts of noise, but how could they bother me they are so cute.
éric took us to the city to go to the natural history museum and to the planetarium! he is so great! i didnt expect him to want to hang out with us. he must think we are cool.
the natural history museum was awesome, i learned a lot about animals and rocks. i now also know the french words for a lot of animals. example: hibou = owl.
the planetarium was cool as well. it made my eyes hurt a little, and mizzou fell asleep, but i suprisingly understood a lot of what the lady was saying.
it is hot here.
now we are at éric's house. he is out collecting his girlfriend and we are just hanging out. his other roommate is here, karl. he is funny, doesn't speak much english. he is currently working on the out house they are building, the "toilette natural".
we are having a little dinner party tonight. éric is making soy steaks for him and i!
a tout a l'heure!

DAY SIXTYNINE

greetings from nantes. wish you were here.

last night we arrived in nantes and tux dropped us off at the hotel. we walked around for an hour and tux came back to pick us up to play LASER TAG. his text read: "i will be there in 15 min dont forget to wear all black" HA
we drove there and to our dismay...it was closed. damn holidays. everything in europe is closed in august, and tourist spots are PACKED.
so we ended up going to the iles de nantes and sitting at a bar by the river. i was dead tired and could not even speak so we went to bed.

today we woke after a great nights sleep of 10 hours!!! say what? that never happens.
we checked out of the hotel and wandered in nantes. saw a castel (with wolves) saw a cathedral, saw an opera house, saw a tropical garden, went to the musé des beaux arts (it was GRAND, they had this great expo that filled this large room, i have no words to describe, i will show pictures), went to an awesome antiqe store, we ended up sitting infront of the chateau for a long time writing post cards, these french people came up to us (man and 2 children) and i am pretty sure (not positive) that they asked us if we knew where to get drugs. "je ne comprend pas"
THEN we were retrieved by éric and his girlfriend, the man who would be hosting us for the next two nights. we are now at his house and he is SO cool. he is a vegetarian and he cooked a lovely dinner for us. he has 4 cats. he has LONG hair. he has chickens. he is building an outhouse at the moment. he did a pilgrimage, where he walked from the middle of france to the middle of spain. basically an awesome dude. and we get to stay here for FREE!
tomorrow, no specific plans, but we will meet éric's friends.
GOOD NIGHT
now mizzou and i will watch harry potter in french with french subtitles.

DAY SIXTY EIGHT

FINALLY
they are gone. there are 2 still lingering, and i dont care, i just walked away and now i am on the computer.
after they leave it is off to NANTEs WE GO! i am pumped. tux is going to take us to play laser tag tonight. french laser tag + techno music + in france...this night is going to be awesome.

so yes. i prob wont do a whole log of updating till tuesday..

LOVE

DAY SIXTY SEVEN

graduation.

finally

they were annoying this day.

at the boom they had this master plan to push us in the lake at the end. they failed cause we got really mad. "not with these shoes on"
then they ended up all in the lake in the end. ha.

we had a counselor boom and the boys choir joined us and we stayed up way too late playing ping pong. the french are really good at ping pong.

DAY SIXTYSIX

wow. 66 days. wow.

Dear all my favorite people,

Today was a good day. I got to go biking!!! it was increadible! i havent ridden a bike in ages! (66 days) 9 kids, a french man, tanner and i rode 13 kilometers. (feel free to convert that to miles americans)
it was so (excuse the language) fucking hard! normandy is covered in hills. we started the trip by weaving through trees, then we went to this obsical course for bikes! we had to go on this teeter-totter thing, slolom through poles on an incline, on a thin beam and under a pole and accross logs. it was intense. i screamed the whole way. "OO LA!" it was MUCH harder than it looked. then we biked on country roads and through the woods. we went on this one trail called the "Death Path" it was a narrow mud path in the woods. it looked straight outa harry potter! it was so cool! i almost fell 6 times. and it was slightly down hill! ZOOM. i was covered in mud. only one girl got hurt.
i am not sore yet but maybe tomorrow...

the kids were so annoying today. i yelled. and i hate yelling.

we did evaluations today. one kid wrote that the only thing that made him mad is the fact that he could not have more than 15 chicken nuggets. HA.

Tomorrow is the LAST day! thank god.
one more session to go.
i am going to be so attached to LA MAZURE it is my home. (j/k mom and dad)