Birthday Blog

As most of you know, today is my birthday! And so far it has been a GREAT day!

First of all, I didn't have to work today....awesome-ness. AND when Amy got home from work, she brought me a present that one of the teachers sent me. AND his daughter made the wrapping paper herself. even more awesome! (see pic)

Maybe I should talk a bit about my first day at school yesterday. All of the teachers were so nice, I worked with 4 different classes and it basically just involved the students asking me questions about myself or Canada! Sure, I was asked about igloos and caribous, and if i play hockey/watch hockey/love hockey. I think they were a little disappointed when I told them that I do none of the above!

So the first day was really good...I will be working with 7 teachers in total, mostly just helping to prepare the students for their oral english exams at the end of the year! I have a feeling that I'm really going to enjoy being on the other side of that table for once!!

As soon as I got home from school, I had to leave right away to meet up with Maggie to see the apartment that I had mentioned in my last post. I somehow was able to make out what I wrote on the corner of that newspaper! And I am sure glad that I did.

The apartment is in a really nice neighbourhood in Villeurbanne, just beside Lyon. It is not far from the main train station and just a subway ride away from the downtown. The apartment itself has a combined living/dining room with walk out to balcony (man, I sound like a real estate agent!), 2 good size bedrooms and a kitchen. THe rent is really reasonable too and everything is included (even unlimited phone calls to landlines in 80 countries...including Canada of course!!)

I of course forgot to take photos of the inside...but there are a few of the outside and I will take more next week when we go back to finalize everything and post them for you all to see!

I've also added a photo of what im eating at the moment :) Very French!

Until next time...

Megan