ah, memories

I apologize- I have been so remiss in my blogging duties lately. But it's kind of become a trend to go out for a drink in the evenings after classes, then hurry home for dinner, then write lesson plans while watching my Brazilian soap opera, Au Coeur du Peche, then go to bed. That's right, I said lesson plans! I used to be kind of skeptical of my elementary education friends in college, with all of their "lesson planning" and "early mornings," but now I know. These are real things, that must be done. Because we started model school! It's a summer course for kids who want to get ahead in the coming school year (or whose parents want them to get ahead in the coming school year) and we're just finishing up our second week of teaching. I've been teaching the 6ème SVT (sciences de la vie et de la terre) class, which is about the equivalent of sixth grade biology, and I've actually been having some good fun with it. Tomorrow we're dissecting peanuts. And it's certainly making me feel a lot more comfortable with the idea of being in charge of entire classes on my own. But it's also pretty tiring, and I'm looking forward to being done in two more weeks.
So now for fun things. Uh, wait. Okay. I told you I was tired. I remember now. We've been having a ton of birthdays lately (birthday season!) and doing cute things for those, and for Lorena's birthday I baked a cake! It was all chocolatey and frenchy and stuff, and it was delightful. Or I think it was- there wasn't quite enough for me to have a piece- but it was so nice to get to bake. I don't remember if I've written this before, but my plan for the first month at site, before school starts, is to spend all of my time in my house, baking and listening to music and painting the walls and lesson planning. I'm very excited about this.
What else. A couple of my friends who are in GEE came over to my house and we hung out and had a sleepover and watched The Office on my laptop, which was totally fun. Except that watching it made me crave sandwiches. You know, I don't know that product placement ever really affected me that much at home, but it's amazing what it does to you once you know you can never have any of the placed products, ever. Or, in the forseeable future. Or, right now. For this, I hate Subway. I tried eating a "meat" sandwich today and was just not satisfied.