The last week before we had Toussaint vacation, I got my kids to sing the Rainbow song!!! It was incredible how excited they were to sing the song. They love the attention and getting up to perform it. Even my most difficult classes did it! TRIUMPH.
I have had quite a few people crashing chez moi the last few weeks. It is very difficult to find places to live in Bordeaux. One is a gal named Crystal from Reno. She finally found a place! Her roommate is rather beau... Needless to say whenever we leave the apartment we have a giggle fit. We went to Ikea yesterday to furnish her room.
The day before break, I decided to just make the jump to visit my Fordham friend, Grant, in Edinburgh. I got lucky because these are apparently the last flights Ryanair is providing from Bordeaux to Edinburgh this year. My friend is visiting home on break from playing for the Cyprus Footy team.
Edinburgh is lovely and it was nice to speak comfortably in my mother tongue. Even though when I first got there my head hurt because I could not decide if I should speak French, accented English or with my own accent!!! Oh the woes of being a traveler ;-).
I went on a walking tour with my hostel that filled me in on all of the legends of the city. It was a great time to go right before Halloween! The inspiration for many haunted stories like Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde and Harry Potter are right there in Edinburgh.
Not many of the people in Edinburgh, that I ran into, were Scottish. My friend was the only one I really heard!
Met a cool couple from San Francisco the first night at my hostel. They were in Scotland to follow a Punk band for work. When Grant and I walked into the pub the next night, I saw them and I said, "Oh! I know them!" Grant was quite tickled by the fact that I knew people, in his home town, as soon as I walked into the pub.
We visited the Castle, Stirling and Lithgow-William Wallace country (FREEDOM!!!). Too bad I didn't have my blue face paint. The air is so clean and fresh up there. So beautiful. (Promise to post pictures soon!)
Back in Bordeaux the troops were warming up for Halloween. Some of the assistants were throwing a party at their very large house. I picked up some fairly realistic vampire fangs in Edinburgh, whited my face and wore black lipstick for the fete. The reactions my friends and I got on the tram were priceless.
Best rule ever at this Halloween party was that everyone had to being something dead or scary!
The best costume would have to go to my friend George who was Edward Scissorhands. So funny because he couldn't really do anything with his hands, like the character.
At the party, I felt like I never left Scotland because everyone there was from Glasgow! Heard more Scottish accents in France that night than in their own country!
Now it is time to chill out, (NO GETTING SICK ALLOWED) lesson plan and prepare myself to teach for the rest of the week. I'm thinking Boy and Girl for CPs and States for the older kids.
Signing off.
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