Life in Normandy & in a High School!

Im sorry i've been so busy lately - i havent been able to get onto internet much for a long period of time. but now im in a cafe in lisieu, the only one open on sunday! but yea im hear with cecil and lizzi. Cecil my roomate is really really nice. hes really freindly - from washington, artsy and interested in museums, festivals, and traveling so I think our time in france is going to be very memorable. hes interested in things i do even if he doesnt like soccer hes like YEA lets go totally. and i would go with him to see a camille concert (french singer) so we're getting a long really well. and lizzi is the british girl (another assistaant in another high school, but she also lives in lisieux). She's nice so we 3 anglophones havee been hanging out together, but also speaking french with the locals. anyway what else. i went to the first day of classes - there were five of them. it was pretty simple i just sat in front of the class and they asked me questions about america, oregon, my hobbies, my music interests, if america was like American Pie the movie, if i have a girl friend etc. They were mostly pretty interested, but their english was really poor, at a low level. I liked the classes with more 16 17 18 year old guys cuz they were not as shy to ask questions, where as the girl classes asked very few qeustions! it was not bad at all. and then there was another class called BTS which are the people after lycee, aged 20, 21, some 22 but their english isnt that good either. the guys were asking me if i like clubs though, and gave me an address for a club they go to on thursdays haha, all were pretty helpful and friendly. i pretended i knew zero french so they were forced to try their english. Oh yea and the first class i was in the 16, 17 year old guys class, were the friendliest and funniest - they invited me afterward to have lunch with them in the cantine, or cafeteria, and one guy richard who had the best english was trying to communicate with me and ask me all these questions. their group is really nice. they know another girls group - and the girls were really shy to meet me in the cantine, but they did the bisous (kisses on the cheek) it was funny. but they like me and cecil, and play guitar on their breaks and are always eager to have lunch together and play the guitar with us in the hallways.

whatelse - k quickly... me and cecil decided to go to Caen (a much bigger city than lisieux!!) yesterday - we took a train in and met some of the elementary school assistants cecil met at orientation. a really freindly girl from new zealand emma had us over, and invited all the other assistants who were mostly american. there were about 7 of them. i think they had aparty last night were recovering from hangovers saturday haha but they were nice, one guy was from missouri, one girl from califronia, one from michigan, and another from alabama, newyork. it wouldd be nice to visit them from time to time, if we are in caen because caen is really a nice city. its a lot bigger than lisieux. and i wanted to watch the caen cs. marseille soccer game with cecil in the stadium but i discovered at the office de tourisme that it was an away game that night, playing in marseille. Oh Well, another time. ill post pictures when i get internet in the apartment, but still wont have a bank account til wednesday, so internet not til later.

im starting to like to explore a lot more though with cecil, we like to go around and travel so im happy about that. this weekend we want to go to Bayeux and also visit the D-Day beaches. Its perfect because i get fridays off, so i have 3 day weekends to travel and see as much as possible!! im liking our set up though, and the classes so far, so if i really like it i might decide to stay somehwere in france for the summer and reapply for this program next year, but yea that would be a lot of time in europe without coming back to the states, so i dont know if im gonna do that, there is still a lot of time. but part of me is thinking, why not, europe is so great, and while im young if i was in europe for two years it would be really cool. thats it for now. more to come...