Happy March

Bonjour mes amis,

Nothing too terribly exciting has happened since my last post, but since it's been a while I figured I should at least post a quick update! We've had lots of visitors to Nevers in the past couple weeks, so I've been busy running back and forth between friends' apartments to meet them. Last Sunday we had an indoor picnic at Mari's (it basically just involved us eating sandwiches in a circle on the floor) because it was too cold and windy to do it outside - I recommend it! While it's not the most comfortable thing in the world, you get the picnic experience without the bugs and grass stains...

Classes have been going well, and I finally feel like I'm getting the hang of how to be a teacher/how to run a classroom. Of course, this knowledge WOULD come to me when I have a month and a half of my contract left. I'm also still tutoring Guillaume, the 17-year old son of a teacher at one of my schools, and he's made definite progress since we started meeting in October, which is exciting.

On Friday night a couple friends and I celebrated Cinco de Marzo. Because we won't still be in Nevers for Cinco de Mayo, we figured it would be better to celebrate 2 months early than not to celebrate at all! It was very pleasant - we made salsa, quesadillas, and some delicious guacamole - and margaritas, of course! As usual, everything was completely improvised and bootlegged, but it turns out that quesadillas are still good when made with emmental cheese and that French store-brand tortilla chips aren't too bad.

The weather here is trying to decide if it wants to be spring or not... We had a few gorgeous days last week, but it's been around freezing again for the past couple days. It even snowed a tiny bit on Sunday! I'm going to Paris for the day tomorrow, and it's supposed to be sunny (although still very cold), so fingers crossed the forecast holds!