I suck at blogging

I have completely neglected my blog over the last month and a half. Gah.

Life has been a rollercoaster (as per usual). I usually am one to document every moment in detail of every trip and event. However, as of late, I've taken a different approach. I feel somewhat like John Mayer in the song 3x5. I'm just seeing everything and absorbing it.

Well let's see, some bullet points...maybe ill fill in the rest at another time

• Paris!
• Christmas Eve on the Eiffel Tower
• Christmas Day wandering Paris with Pawn and Cody followed by duck and pasta for dinner.
• Day after Christmas in Disneyland Paris
• London!
• Mini Beatles Pilgrimage to Liverpool with Pawn and Matt
• Clubbin' in Liverpool
• 5 hour Megabus ride back to London at 6am.
• Spending a wonderful day exploring London with our pal Scotty
• Ringing in the New Year with amazing people at the London Eye
• Staying up until 8am to ring in the New Year across the world up until Los Angeles
• New Years Day hungover (duh) wandering London and ending up at the Tate Modern (in the top top 5 favorite museums in the world for sure)
• Back to Marseille with Pawn for a week where we hung out with my Marseille crew and visited the beautiful city of Cassis
•  Visiting Lea, one of the French Exchange students from high school, in Angers
• Spending the weekend with her family in Le Mans
• Ice Skating for the first time!
• Lyon with Michele, Sophia, and Lola
• Delicious "French" meal (I got a cheeseburger and everyone else got duck)
• Waking up to it snowing just a bit
• Riding bikes around the city all day.
• Toulouse with Chris, Stephanie, Sarah, Michele, Paul, Rosanna, and Frang
• Clubbing at a gay club until 4am. Left deciding we needed three things: 1. More Booze, 2. Food, 3. a cab home since our hotel was a bit on the outskirts of the city
• When we realized we were in France our priorities slowly dwindled. First we scratched off booze and decided we just wanted food and a cab....then when there was legitimately no food in sight we decided to go straight home.
• Took legitimately an hour of standing in the freezing cold to flag a cab from the main square of town...even after having called the cab company
• Woke up to REAL SNOW!!!!!!!!!!! EVERYWHERE!
• Tram closed due to snow; had to walk about 30 minutes to the metro station to get into down...with all of our luggage.
• Snowball fight in the city center
• Meeting Victoria in Paris!!!
• Salsa dancing in Paris and definitely being two of the best dancers in the club
• Thanksgiving store filled with American goods
• Week in Marseille with Victoria!
• Sick the entire time (for about the 5th time since I've been in France)
• Discovered that my neighbor could be more obnoxious than she already was and 1. Got a new boyfriend....who is apparently living with her now, and 2. got a subwoofer which she insists on blasting rap music against my wall pretty much all day. I have dubbed her room the nightclub. 
• London-Cyprus-London with Victoria.
• Meeting up with Swag again in London for a quick layover
• Cyprus being one of the most gorgeous places ever.
• Staying in a 4 star hotel on the freakin beach. 
• Massages
• Amazing buffet breakfast
• Seeing the most attractive boy ever just hanging out on the beach; whom we dubbed Apollo.
• Back to London; spending the night in Greenwich with Victoria's friend Steve.

 I think that's the briefest I can make it. My neighbor currently is trying to drive me insane with her stereo.  I can hear her having sex with her boyfriend quite clearly (multiple times each day), which is immediately followed by her blasting her music....that's right she turns the music on AFTER they have sex. WHY?! I have written her a very nice note to tell her that everyone in the damn apartment can hear her and it still is fairly audible at times. Granted, it has gotten better, but daily I still hear the bass bumping against my wall. ugh.

Work is just annoying. The kids are having major senioritis and they are getting worse at English. I seriously just can't be bothered to care any longer. Also my key doesn't seem to work to my classroom anymore and I went to the office and the lady basically told me to not worry about it. Uh I need to worry about it  because I can't get into my room....

I am trying to finish the last month and a half of my stay in France (WHERE THE HELL HAS TIME GONE?!?!!) strong. I feel like I've put on weight, I think it's honestly like 5 lbs; but when I look in the mirror I feel more. Also the fact that I am constantly ill is driving me insane. I've been eating a lot more fruit and veg which has at least helped on the health front...dunno about the rest.

I've been letting my salsa go, which makes me sad. I'm going to a congress in three weeks and hopefully it's good times even though I'm going all alone.

The weather has improved SO much. It was 73 yesterday, and I took a nice head-clearing walk to the beach. I laid on the beach for an hour and it was AMAZING. I plan to spend as many days as possible there before I leave.

I'll try and update more in the next few weeks so that i don't have to just sum up everything in bullet points!!!

Day 3 of grown up

So I did this program in order to DELAY growing up but all the sudden, I am realizing I have been thrust into adulthood more quickly than I ever imagined.

I'm on my third day of living completely on my own and it's weird. I'm cooking for myself, which is nice but I think it's gonna get real old, real fast. I've been to the grocery store every single day because I keep forgetting crap. But I think I finally have the essentials so I can start going every few days for stuff for dinner. I think I'm going to be eating tons of pasta!!!

Here's some of my concoctions: 

It's weird having to buy house stuff and I'm not realizing all the crap I need until I'm in the middle of needing it. My current list includes:

• Shower Caddy
• Broom
• Mop
• Bedsheets

I'm sure there are more...but I won't discover it until I need it, of course!!!

Today was my second day teaching and it did NOT go as smoothly as the first. I am glad Wednesdays are short because I don't think I will like them. One girl got kicked out of class for being belligerent, I think because she couldn't understand me but I couldn't exactly figure out what was going on. All I know is she stormed out and slammed the door and the girls in front of me were being adorable and giving me the "I don't know what's going on either!!!" eyes.

The second class was REALLY interested in what I had to say...however their level of English is LOW. It's gonna be soooo hard to teach these lower-leveled kids and I hope I can find some activities to help them.

After school, since I was done at 11, I went to the beach. Can I just say how cool it is to have a beach be a 20 minute walk away! It sucks that today is probably the last day possible to go. BUT we stayed out there for about 3 hours and I got SO dark...like an idiot I left a bandaid on my leg so I will have this super awkward bandaid tanline!

Tomorrow I have to be at school by 8 and stay until 4. I have 3 hours of break which is WAY too much. But maybe I can use it as my planning time and get a lot done.