Yes! My apartment even comes with a hair dryer

that apparently has no heat setting. I can just feel my hair literally freezing and breaking off my head, smashing into a pile of split ends...

But school, oh school. I have somewhere around 12 or 14 classes that I see once every week or every other week. I can't really read my schedule to tell you for sure. I have a nice mix of older students interested in English and literature and students who are in my business english courses. These BTS students are between 19-24 (yes, older than me) and many have quite colorful hair and oddly placed piercings. Before I came I expected my BTS students to be young adults intrested in entering the business world with an eager and overly ambitious desire to learn all vocabulary remotely associated with business. My BTS students, however, look like they would rather give their neighbor a tatoo than help him/her open a bank account. "No, really, I don't want to see all of your piercings. No! I swear I don't!"

The object of my classes is to make my students speak English. The classes are divided into two smaller parts; I take half of the class for one hour while the prof takes the other half, and then we trade. During the training in Grenoble, the instructers gave us plenty of silly games and activities to encourage discussion and speaking. The other day I had half of the class for a whole hour and the other half for another hour. Those were the longest hours of my entire life. Introducing myself took no longer than 8 minutes. I had a mini breakdown inside my head when I realized that I still had 52 minutes left. But I pulled it together and had the students interview each other and present each other to the rest of the class. So fun (read: painfully boring for me and the students). But today I read aloud an article to the students and made them talk about some random details in the article. Slightly more fun. Maybe a 4 on the 1-10 funness scale. But after class two girls came up to me and asked me if I wanted to meet with them later outside of class to practice English. Tomorrow we will meet in Aix for lunch and conversation. I am excited to help these girls prepare for their oral exam at the end of the year. But now I must be off to another BTS class...