Remember, remember the 5th of November

It's sad that I only know of this holiday because of the movie V for Vendetta -- which was so amazingly great by the way, watch it if you haven't!

November 5 around the British world is Guy Fawkes' Day. Read about it here. Anyways, in my students' English books, there's a huge section for teaching holidays, especially Guy Fawkes' Day. I think I'll pass on that one.

Instead, I taught about Halloween in the United States. However, the way I celebrated it in France was pretty interesting.

Kathy, Natalie and I watched bootleg copies on my computer of The Nightmare Before Christmas and of all films, Hostel. We started off with a cute, kiddie movie after baking a spiderweb cake and caramel apples, which in France were not as up to par as they could have been in the States.

After nearly cracking three teeth and devouring an entire cake, we decided to run off to the cemetery near my house. Pretty spooky, let me tell you. At one point, a crackling noise down one of the dark alleyways scared us so monumentally that we ran as fast as our legs could carry us, screaming at the top of our high-pitched lungs, thus making the guards near the entrance laugh their French behinds off -- or so I imagine.

Walking back home near the marblers, we posed near some fake headstones, still incredibly freaked out and then took a little detour down the side-street by my building called, "Path of the Souls of Purgatory," such an appropriate gesture on an eerie Halloween night. Then came back home and watched a really gory movie. Fabulous night.

Oh and the Loire Valley was amazing! Check my PicasaWeb site for new photo albums, including some updates in the Halloween folder. I'll write about it all once I come to terms with how fat I'm getting on this trip. My heart hates me, I can tell because it's beating differently, so I think I'm going to try my NO SUGAR WHATSOEVER diet in the next two weeks.

DO NOT LET ME PURCHASE ANYTHING WITH SUGAR (or that turns into very high sugar levels in the body -- i.e. starchy breads and veggies).

That is all, thanks.