Noel à Chambéry et Grenoble

Bonjour a tous,

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends. I had a great time with my host family. I spent 3 awsome days meeting Béa side of the family,



hanging out and eating. Went to church Christmas eve, and later that night we had " le réveillon ". In France we eat turkey for Christmas, and also the biggest meal is lunch on the 25th.
GRENOBLE
Came home on the 27th,where we had another party with Thierry side of the family.
(not the best pic of me)

The next day went to Corrençon had a wonderful time.
A bientot

Une expérience pas comme les autres

I usually stay overnight in La tour du Pin when I work on Thursdays, so last week the teacher i was staying with that night, told me she had a supride dish for me. And that dish was FROGS.... I ATE FROG legs.

If you like rabbit you like frog. So when I get home if anyone wants to learn how to prepare frogs the French way you know who to call.

This family have a little one Gabe's age and 2 girls, they are so cute. We had fun that night.

Fun times

SUGAR COOKIES avec les Petits

On Thursday I made cookies with one of my classes.
They had so much fun mixing all the ingredients. And the next day they shared their work with the rest of the school. Just wanted to share some of the pictures with you all.

Depuis la dernière fois

Coucou,

Well last week I went to another small group. Last year I met a couple missionary kids at Bethel and their parents are missionaries in Grenoble. I have been in contact with the mom and she gave me the names of couple young people at their church. So last week I met them for the first time and they invited me to their group. And on Sunday she picked me and I visited their church and after we went to lunch. It’s another great connection and I am so thankful.

So on Thursday I wasn’t able to head to my first school do the weather. It’s started snowing on Wednesday and the tracks were not ready for the next day. It didn’t really snow in Grenoble but the trains weren’t able to get to my destination.

So until next year, I am heading out next Tuesday with my host family and I am excited for my 1st Christmas in France.
A bientôt
Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année 2009

Marché de NOEL

Christmas market

Last day of November almost everywhere in France the market is open. The marché is open from the 30th - 24th of December. You can find almost everything you need there. Its so fun to see all the little cabins and tents

the smell of chocolate, spiced bread, Christmas Tea and Christmas decorations, candles, flowers, Christmas trees, wooden toys, music box. I had fun wlaking around and listening to French Christmas songs.

Thanksgiving à Grenoble

Bonjour tout le monde,


Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I was at work on the 27th but i was able to celebrate on the 29th with 50 other people.


Stephanie and I spend all day saturday cooking for the party. we had so much fun cooking. We thought it will be a great idea to cook for my host family, but Béa said it will be fun to share the night with some of her friends. She send invitations out, and 40+ said they will come. Mom i know you would of been proud to see me in action.
We had a blast saturday night.
A bientot

Wonderful Week- end in St Rémy and les Baux de Provence

Bonjour,


My host family invited me to pass a week-end with them in the Provence, its was a great week-end. Béa ( my host mom)took her time to show around and taught me about the history of St. Rémy. For those of you who love art, a lot of Vincent Van Gogh tableaux are of St. Rémy, also the hospital where he stayed is in St. Rémy.

Les Beaux de Provence, another beautiful town full of history. If any one plans to come to France you most visit both places.
Take your time and enjoys the pictures.
Bises

Since the last post.....till Nov12th

I know it’s been a while since i post on my page. Sorry.
On october 27- nov 5th i was on vacation... don’t be jealous didn’t do much. I decided to take that time to finish with all my paper nightmares, but that didn’t happen. I had a doctor appointment to get a medical cerficate so i can get my residency card, when i got there the nurse told me they need to reschedule because the X-ray machine is out of film and they didn't know when exatly i could come back.
The week-end before i went back to work my host fam asked me if its ok if Celeste stayed home with me. We had fun relaxing.
Celeste plays the piano so on Saturday night i had a concert at home.
Went back to work on Thursday 6th, and the big subject when i got in the classroom “ tu as voté” and “ pour qui?” ( did you vote and who did you vote for). It was so fun to see how much interest they had in hearing about election (my students are 7-11 years old). And on friday i got sick, bad cold, headache body ache.
On Tuesday 11th, I got up at 7:30am to go hiking (still sick). I know it was going to be a long and hard day; I try really hard to get out of it. We took the bus; it was a 30 minutes ride to get to our destination. It started raining, and no we didn’t back out. By we, myself, Stephanie and 2 of Stephanie friends. We got and kaurel showed us where we were going exactly. I was shocked but couldn’t back out, because the bus left and the next one was coming at 2. During the hike i got hurt... don’t worry i am ok. I am proud to say that i hiked a total of 10 km in 8 hours even though i was sick. The view was great. Oh yes the place that we hiked was Mount st. Eynard. I didn’t get home until 6pm.



That night i paid for it, my cold got worse and my knees where burning like crazy. I feel better now. I will try to be better at posting. Bonne journée
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