So I think the weeks during Trimester 2 will be passing quite quickly, because we pretty much have a break every month this time around. In less than three weeks our winter break will be rolling in for two weeks of vacation! Then exactly five weeks after that, we get our spring break in April.
Until then, I feel like I'm settling back into my old routines (plus some new and improved ones) here. Today my mom went back to the United States, so it's back to being just my dad and me in France. However, we're about seven hours apart, so that means that no really big or exciting weekends are coming my way for a while. Well, not until I go back to the United States in less than a month, which I'm suuuuuper excited about!
But back to me settling in: I recently found someone online who lives here in Antibes and needs a babysitter for her five month old daughter once a week. Today was the second time I watched her and it's AMAZING how much new babies change from week to week. She'll be six months at the end of January, and already she's holding a sitting position by herself -- something she could only do with assistance last Tuesday.
And while last time was a bit rough, seeing as how it was my very first baby experience, today went much better. She slept quite a bit, so I had some free time to read (in French of course) and now that she can sit on her own, she relies on me less to occupy her time. Still, she is quite needy, but less so than the last time.
Basically what I'm doing is freeing up her parents' Tuesdays, so her mother runs errands and relaxes around the house to cook a good dinner or something. I suppose she hasn't really done that in over five months. But since she stays in the house for part of the time I'm there, we get to talking quite a bit. And though I'm using English, she's helping me out a great deal with the city and getting around. So much so, that she said the next time they go on a weekend day-trip, they'd like to take me along! Exciting!!
And another exciting prospect is talking more and more to my roommate than ever before. We're getting pretty friendly now, and she wants to go skiing one weekend before the season ends in the Alps, about an hour from here. So hopefully in February when I get my next paycheck I'll be ready to rock.
As for my latest adventure, the teachers at my school in Juan-les-Pins decided on tonight for our big outing together. I guess the tradition is that every year all the teachers go out to celebrate the new year and congratulate themselves on the previous one. This is the first time they've extended the invite to the language assistants, so I will be accompanying them to Cannes, where supposedly we're getting a four-course Moroccan meal complete with belly dancing displays for about 30 Euros.
Pas mal. Pas mal du tout!
Until then, I feel like I'm settling back into my old routines (plus some new and improved ones) here. Today my mom went back to the United States, so it's back to being just my dad and me in France. However, we're about seven hours apart, so that means that no really big or exciting weekends are coming my way for a while. Well, not until I go back to the United States in less than a month, which I'm suuuuuper excited about!
But back to me settling in: I recently found someone online who lives here in Antibes and needs a babysitter for her five month old daughter once a week. Today was the second time I watched her and it's AMAZING how much new babies change from week to week. She'll be six months at the end of January, and already she's holding a sitting position by herself -- something she could only do with assistance last Tuesday.
And while last time was a bit rough, seeing as how it was my very first baby experience, today went much better. She slept quite a bit, so I had some free time to read (in French of course) and now that she can sit on her own, she relies on me less to occupy her time. Still, she is quite needy, but less so than the last time.
Basically what I'm doing is freeing up her parents' Tuesdays, so her mother runs errands and relaxes around the house to cook a good dinner or something. I suppose she hasn't really done that in over five months. But since she stays in the house for part of the time I'm there, we get to talking quite a bit. And though I'm using English, she's helping me out a great deal with the city and getting around. So much so, that she said the next time they go on a weekend day-trip, they'd like to take me along! Exciting!!
And another exciting prospect is talking more and more to my roommate than ever before. We're getting pretty friendly now, and she wants to go skiing one weekend before the season ends in the Alps, about an hour from here. So hopefully in February when I get my next paycheck I'll be ready to rock.
As for my latest adventure, the teachers at my school in Juan-les-Pins decided on tonight for our big outing together. I guess the tradition is that every year all the teachers go out to celebrate the new year and congratulate themselves on the previous one. This is the first time they've extended the invite to the language assistants, so I will be accompanying them to Cannes, where supposedly we're getting a four-course Moroccan meal complete with belly dancing displays for about 30 Euros.
Pas mal. Pas mal du tout!
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