A stay in France: Jambon et fromage

It's seems as if I'm living on baguettes filled with jambon et fromage (ham and cheese) at the moment. Partly because the bread is so good that I can't resist, but also partly because it's rather difficult to make anything else!!! The kitchen situation just doesn't get any better, today apparently even the microwave wasn't working...!

This week started off well with successful lessons on Monday. Although, since this time I planned something in case I was left in the lurch again, typically the teacher wanted to do it her way this week! ( I still taught most of the lesson, she just told me what she wanted them to do). Afterwards, Brigette, the teacher invited me to stay for coffee, for the second time, and I thought it would look rude if I refused again, so I agreed to stay. Now, I don't like coffee at the best of times, unless it's very very very milky (basically warm milk with a drop of coffee), so when I was presented with a cup full of BLACK coffee, with no milk in sight, I was no amused! And, after giving me the worlds most disgusting cup of coffe, Brigette decided to leave me and talk to other teachers! I only stayed as I though she would actually talk to me! Anyway, I got chatting to another teacher whose name I can't remember, and it was pretty interesting, So, disgusting coffee aside, I was glad I stayed.
We went to zumba on monday night, which was fun, even if we did have to sprint to catch the bus there, I'd done a workout before I even got there. Really need to work on setting off in time for buses to cut back on the running!!

Tuesday was my first midweek day off, and I really didn't do that much until the evening when me and Beth went for our first evening babysitting. Beth was looking after the 9 year old girl and I the 3 year old boy, Elouan. He's adorable, although when his dad first left and we had to walk the rest of the way home from school, he didn't seem very happy at being left with me, who he'd only met once before. He hung his head and was silent for the whole journey, even though I tried to talk to him several times! Thankfully, when we got home, he came round when I said we could so a jigsaw together, and after that he wouldn't shut up! And, at one point, I got him to count to 7 in English and say 'I've finished' so not a bad evening!
The next day I was babysitting again, and met the baby of the family, Gabriel, who is around 1. He is so cute, even if he did sleep for most of the day!

On friday night we had a kind of night out, starting at Jess's for drinks and numerous drinking games (with handmade cards!), and then we headed out to the Galway (as usual). We only stayed for a bit though and then decided to go to the takeaway where I had my first portion of chips in around 3 weeks...YUM! We then battled the long walk home in the pouring rain, I managed to only slip once, which isn't bad for me!

Today we took a trip to Oloron to see the assistants who live there, which was good. The whole town smells of chocolate because of the lindt factory there, it's amazing! So after stocking up on chocolate we went for some pizza (we do a lot of food orientated things here!), and then back to Becky and Lara's flat, which is really nice! So jealous of everyone who has nice flats with working kitchen appliances!
We then caught the train home, and some of the others are now out again, but I decided to stay in as I don't feel amazing as I'm full of cold, so now here I am spending my Saturday night in bed writing my blog, exciting life I know!

I can't believe how quickly the weeks fly by here, only one more working week until the Toussaint holidays, where we get 2 weeks off, wahoo! Definitely one plus of teaching in France, they get a lot of school holidays!

Bonne soirée xx