the fabulous life of...

updating my blog right now seems like a big task since a lot has happened in the past week. BUT here it goes....

I started my job last Wednesday at the high school where I'm teaching: Lycée Jacques Monod...and I was very pleasantly surprised. The teachers were super nice and the job is going to be so much fun. Basically everytime I work I will have a group of 8 or so students and I have conversation lessons with them. I have free reign to talk about whatever I want..well almost whatever I want besides the usual list of banned topics. Along with my job I have also started my classes. Today I had my first studio class (Carnet et Croquis: Dessin et écriture)..I know none of you know what that means, neither do I, but basically it is a drawing course. It's based off of artists such as Matisse and Kandinsky and their works of observation drawing and painting. The rest of my classes will come as the week goes on..that's how it works here..it's such a pain in the ass.

So along, with starting my actual schooling and everything last week I got very sick with that wonderful 2 day flu. I went to the Opéra Bastille with Caroline and we got student rush tickets to see Rigoletto by Verdi. It was amazing...not as amazing as it should have been because half way through the show I got a fever and runny nose and sore throat and it was awful. I spent the next 2 days in bed. Damn opera. ...je rigole;);)

In weekend news: Every Friday night in Paris an organized group of rollerbladers goes rollerblading around Paris until 1am Saturday morning. The group estimates to about 15,000 people. Jérôme and I went this past Friday, it was the 10 year anniversary of the group called "Roller Pari." It was really cool, we started at the Tour Montparnasse and rollerbladed around Paris with the mass of people (all shapes and sizes) for 3 hours. It is really amazing because they literally have police men to stop the traffic so we can go by...and it's really cool to watch so many people rollerblading at once. Anyway, we went everywhere EVEN down the Champs Elysées since it was the 10 year fête...so we stopped the traffic on the Champs, which is pretty cool needless to say. Obviously, this vigorous sport kicked my ass so afterwards I was exhausted and I had a blister...but all in all definitely worth it.

This past Saturday was the "Nuit Blanche"..literally "white night" but thats how the frenchies say "all nighter." It's every year on the first Saturday in October and all the museums and parks stay open all night and have special exhibits. The coolest one I saw this year was the light pillar at the Tour Montparnasse...unfortunately I didn't think this year was as cool as last year's fire exhibit in the Tuileries.

**pictures to come**

well kids, I'm planning my Christmas vacation...where should I go?????