Bonne fête des mères

It's Mother's day here in France. I'm gasping with thirst but still have to drag myself awake to properly receive Evan's present which he has been working on at the maternelle for 2 weeks. It's a cute heart-shaped box with little messages and paper with lipstick kisses...so adorable (altho' I had wondered about the lipstick traces on his mouth when he came home from school recently). Ciara made me something too, but asked if she could keep it 'cause she'd like it for herself!

Saturday Night Fever!

Girls night out in downtown St. Genis. Unfortunately, it clashed with the Eurovision Song Contest which I hadn't seen in years and I would have definitely turned on the telly for! Met up with Fiona & Fiona, Florence, Grace, Margaret and Rosamund in Charley's Bar. My first night out in France. Discovered Fiona (not saying which one) is a secret smoker! Lot of fun and much beer consumed. Five of us ended us squeezing into a 2-seater Porsche to travel home in style!

Check out the awesome Eurovision Flash Mob Dance (Ireland dances in at around 3:20).

Français on a Friday

So Friday is the day I blitz my French. Two classes at CERN - a conversation class in the morning and a preparation for DELF B1 (diplôme d'études de langue française) in the afternoon. Didn't have my homework done, so tried to wing the subjunctive...yeah that went well!

Do you prefer cats or dogs? I can't decide.

School Schedule

It's mercredi so the kids are off school. How's this for a schedule?

School	8:30 - 11:30
Lunch	11:30 - 1:30
School again	1:30 - 4:30.

Every Wednesday off and 2 weeks holiday every 6 weeks.
Pas mal eh? Unless you're a PARENT!

Listen Up World!

Welcome to my blog! Seeing that it's already 10 months into our year here in France, this blog should really be entitled "Two months in Thoiry", but that doesn't have the same cachet. (BTW you can expect that I'll pepper my postings with the occasional mot français - just to give this the authentic, pretentious tone it needs.)