No time for pictures--they're still on my camera--but I wanted to quickly update about what we've been doing for Christmas here abroad!
Christmas in Verdun! That's about the best way to describe it. Not quite like home, but super fun and exciting and different.
On Friday I went with Mary to teach a few classes--first at the collège and then running really quickly up to the lycée to play some Christmas vocab games (so much fun! They're a lively bunch). Then we had a tour of they lycée with the group of kids who write the journal--I imagine headlines reading something like: American Twins Visit Lycée. We were like superstars--they took bunches of photos and we learned all kinds of French anatomy vocab from the medical assistants class. Then they interviewed us about gun control in the US--snickering all the while at our grammar. Whatevs.
Lesson learned: We went out to dinner with Jonathan at a restaurant that opens at 7pm. Because we were starving, we went at 7:15pm--had the place to ourselves...until all the French people arrived at 8:30pm. Never be early--for anything! It was super amazing food, though!
Saturday we went to Mass with the guys--all the old people wanted to talk to us and find out where we were from and told us how much they hoped to see us at Christmas eve midnight Mass. Very sweet.
My computer is running out of battery, so you will have to wait until later to read how we braved the rain to visit Domremy la Pucelle, ate at a restaurant that was locked and saw a church that was closed for Christmas!
Cheers!
~Laura
Life as a Teaching Assistant in France
