Not a few minutes ago, Isy and her belongings were picked up by her parents, the last of my friends here has gone.
And I'm still to pack most of my shit, fortunately my parents sent 2 delivery boys to come collect my heaviest case- wayhayyyy! One less stress. I'm now very aware however that I've got a tonne to do before I leave France. For good! Actually quite excited about returning to my homeland, as much as I love France, I now know I wouldn't live here for any extended period of time- the French are just too damned weird. Ex. the headmaster of Isy's lycée who I was left with when the car pulled away, he spent 10mins telling me about why he needed to close the shutters in Isy's flat, it took about 3 of those minutes for me to realise he was actually talking to me and not to himself....
Anyhow, I'm well ahead of myself. I didn't even blog about Easter here, which was fantastic as my friend Kat came to visit me- hell of a lot of effort to get here, got a good friend there!
I love Pâques here, the French have so many amazing chocolate-y creations, it's not just simple eggs here- hell no. i could have chosen rabbits, hens in chocolate nests, or A FISH! There was even a large heron.
I went with the fish.
The tradition of fish comes from the poisson d'avril- 'April Fools!', it's a tradition here to stick a paper fish to someone's back as a fool.
Anyway, after eating plenty chocolate, Kat and I wandered around Issoudun and visited the tourist sites which, living here, I hadn't actually done before. It was a lovely day and really quite nice to see our white tower- the whole reason why we name this place Isengard.
Isn't she beautiful? Apparently built in the days of Richard Lionheart.
On Kat's last day, I asked to switch my hours at work and accompanied Kat to Paris- she was getting a rather late plane, so we did all the fun stuff, visited Notre Dam (which is getting new bells soon and celebrating being 850 years old), went to the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa, saw Monet's Les Nymphéas (the waterlillies) and I finally got to go to my Mecca.
Such an amazing place! We also visited a Canadian bookshop nearby which was a bit of a squeeze (think Voltaire and Rousseau style). I bought far too many books, as said- thank god for luggage boys!
It was a brilliant couple of days with Kat, can't wait to be reunited with her and all my friends in Glasgow this year.
Last weekend, we said goodbye to all the Bourges crew- it was a great night out and nice lunch at the Chinese afterwards for us. Can't believe that there's some of them I probably won't see again, such an odd thought. Had so many good times in Bourges with a hella lot of people- there were about 20 of us, so while I didn't get the opportunity to be good friends with all, it was still nice knowing that there was so many people not that far away who would be there for you if needed...
And finally last week at school, I'll miss teaching, I've really enjoyed it this year. I'm gunna miss quite a few of my students, I had one class attempt Auld Lang Syne for me so that was nice, and on my very last hour of work I was told by one of the teachers that I had been a huge help this year with the students and that some of them had reported back about how they felt far more confident about their BACs and speaking English in general after they'd worked with me. It's a nice feeling to know that you've helped someone and given them a boost where they needed it. :)
Also I got given a leaving present by the teachers at the college that I worked with this year.
Also I got given a leaving present by the teachers at the college that I worked with this year.
So bloody delighted! I LOVE BOOKS!!!
Oh well, gunna have to check to see if the films I'm downloading for this weekend are loaded then march to the Orange shop and return my Livebox to them. I don't wanna. :(
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