FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have very BIG news…I finally moved into my own room! They finished the floor yesterday evening, so I was able to put all my stuff in last night. I was really amazed by how much stuff I have collected because I know I didn’t come with all the stuff I put away. Sarah said she wasn’t going to be able to sleep because we have shared a room every night for almost 4 weeks. Now maybe we can actually get some sleep instead of talking into the wee morning hours!

My break for Toussaint, or all Saints, has officially started. I am leaving tomorrow to go to Normandy for the next three days to visit my friend Tamar. She is going to take me around Rouen, and we might go to the coast for a day, which will be really cool.

I think Tamar and I are coming back to Belfort on Saturday. Then we can go to some of the other cities in the area. Then we are going with my roommate Sarah to visit Strasbourg. Then at the end of next week we will probably be going to Paris. It is actually Versailles, which is right outside. Sarah has a friend who is an assistant there. My other roommate, Mandy, is going back to Leeds in the UK for her 21st birthday.

I had a pretty good weekend. I went to Bâle, Switzerland, but for only a few hours because the trains do not run very often on the weekends. It was the first time I have been anywhere in Europe other than France, which is a little exciting. The weather was wonderful. It was sunny and probably in the mid 70s. It couldn’t have been better. The town was really pretty, and we took a little boat across the Rhine River. All the trees were changing there as well, so everything looked even better. I definitely want to go back sometime this winter when they have snow. I sure the town would be just gorgeous.

I saw my first French film in a theater on Saturday night. I saw ‘Les Rebelles de la fôret” which is “Open Season.” It was animated, so the dubbing didn't look too bad. We went to the 10 pm show, and I was really tried, so I actually fell asleep a few times. I don' think I have ever fallen asleep at a theater before. It was OK because I still know what happened. I'll have to go to an earlier show next time.

The past two days went pretty well with my classes. I talk about Halloween in America. The kids also got vocabulary words. They found pumpkin and ghost really hard. There were a lot of kids who couldn’t say ghost. It kept coming out goat, so I had to explain that that was an entirely different word. It did sound funny though.

Well, I am off to pack my stuff. I leave tomorrow at 7 am, so I have lots of stuff to get done.