Au revoir!

I'm very excited to welcome the weekend in with open arms! The past couple of days have been filled with class and moving! Our Belgium house closed for the "summer"... or a couple of weeks, so that the people who worked there can go on vacation is more likely; thus we had to move into another house. Now, the four of us staying on the the remaining two weeks are staying in the Monaco house. Two nights with roommates, as we watch our group dwindle from 17 to 4 in two days! Its a pretty intense change to be honest.

Not only is our group going from 17 to 4... today was our teacher's last day. Anne-Sophie is now going on vacation to Spain. She assured our class that the next teacher was just as nice and very similar to her, but we all had our doubts. Today we had our final class with Anne-Sophie and for the second half of class we had a little fete! She asked us each to bring something typically "our country"; so either make or purchase some kind of food that represents our country. After the big move on Thursday to my new residence, cooking something seemed slightly too hectic, so Jenna, ever so wisely suggested: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Genius. This morning I headed to Franprix, praying that they would have peanut butter; unfortunately it didn't open until 9, and it was only 8:30. So I headed to the one near school and got there at about 9, being one of the first people in the store. I purchased a small tub of 5 euro peanut butter, some strawberry jelly, and some good ol' American square bread. While the stuff is pretty much sac-religious here, my teacher allowed it because its "Typically American".

As I passed around the peanut butter and jelly, most of the kids in the class thought it was strange, but they tried and loved it! Funny because I actually don't like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at all, and now have an almost full jar sitting in my fridge. We also had a lot of different types of Chinese foods, some Turkish food that was absolutely delicious, and of course, wonderful French cheese and some danish that is typically from Brittany. All of which, were really interesting and delicious.

I'm off to bed, I'm getting up VERY early (4:30 AM) to go to Normandy for the day! I've never been and am really excited. I am sure I will have a very long update tomorrow and pictures are promised.

Bisous,
Amy