A week is too long without internet

Last week I had the opportunity to meet all of the other language assistants in the Grenoble region at a conference of sorts in the mountains of Grenoble. About 200 of us from around the world gathered at a camp/lodging thing made for elementary school kids. We were high in the mountains in the middle of NOwhere. We were 8 in a room sleeping together on little bunk beds, and we crowded around tiny tables for our three meals. The conferences was indended to help us learn how to teach. We got lots of ideas for activities and strategies for dealing with high school kids. We also got all of our insurance, bank, and health information, which was boring but helpful. Anyway, we had fun together dancing at a fake disco the lodge had organized for us. If you know me, you know I love dancing. whenever. wherever. get your groove on. we stayed until midnight, at which point my birthday started...

For my birtday I stayed in Grenoble with Tessa and Laura-two girls from furman that I met this summer. We took a lift to a super high point overlooking grenoble and ate some pizza and drank a bottle of bubble white wine costing a heavy 1.23. Then we found oursleves in the London pub listening to a completely random mix of country and pop music. I told one of the bartenders that it was my birthday so that he would let us go upstairs for the extra seating, but little did I know that birthdays are a celebrated occasion at the London Pub. About an hour after we arrived, suddenly the lights went out at the bar. The next thing I knew a giant apple tarte with 4 blazing candels was placed before my confused eyes. Geez, I though, you know you're in France when your birthday cake is an apple tarte. I was very pleased, needless to say, and I blew out the candels and passed the tarte around for everyone to try. I don't really like apples, but no bother. I ate it anyway.

I have also started school and it is going very well. I actually really love teaching english. The staff is really cool and the kids are nice, for high school kids....I must say more about school later though because my time is almost out. Look for photos soon hopefully.... thanks for reading!