what day is this?

well since i last wrote, ive begun teaching... SUCH a weird feeling!! because i dont see myself an educator at ALL! im a teacher.... weeeeird!! hahaha. which means, yes, i make lesson plans (more like... conversation material. i dont have to teach grammar at all!), i get to eat in the teachers lounge (with WINE!!), i get to cut i line to get my food ^_^...

oh, hahah.... just to state for the record... i went to pimps with my friend elenika, the greek cyprete gal... it was a pretty gay club, haha. i mean... pretty homosexual gay. i told everyone later about it and they were shocked. im like, uh YEA!! the dudes were all over each other! not like the european friendly, but kneckin each other! haha. it was cool, but if youre not expecting that, and youre sober, ya. ^_^ and their dancing!! aw man... thats another thing. they totally should have gone to find some raver club... it was INSANE!!

anywho, back to teaching...
im beginning to prefer one school over the other though. I like the teachers at the bigger school. the students are so bad!! and i prefer the students at the smaller school. the teachers there gossip more than the students! i swear!

saturday afternoon, october 6, i met up with some TAs and we went to the movies (my first time here!) and we saw Ratatouille. it was so cute!! ive been really emotional lately... ugh. so i was cryin and shit. but it was cute, and they were happy, inspirational tears =p. i found i understood a lot more if i didnt try and focus too hard on what they were saying. after the movie, i went and chilled in the park with another american ashley from new orleans, a scott grahame, and a german phillip. we just sat and talked for a little over an hour and watched some circus gypsies juggle, and some jocks play rugby. it was chill. that night i watched my first ever rugby match between france and new zealand. it was the quarter-final match and france won 20-18, and you would have sworn it was a world cup match or something. the people were going CRAAAZY! it sucked that i lived downtown too cause cars were still blowing their horns at 2am... yarrrrg! hah, but it was hilarious because all the french people were like, "france won against all blacks!!"

ok, so my interpretation of this was that new zealand's team was all black people, right... how else would you interpret that??? NOOOO! sigh, so i finally had someone explain it to me cause i was confused as hell. they refer to new zealand as the "all black" team because back in the 70s , in the beginning of rugby history, their uniforms were all black and so when they played france, they were referred to as the blacks... and they STILL call them all blacks.... sigh, now i get it!
i watched the game with a bunch of TA's at the same bar where the cafe des langues is held, and then after the match we made our way to old tours and it was even CRAZIER there!! they completely trashed the city. it was so festive!! so next saturday, for the semi-finals, we're going to make a reservation to watch the game at a bar, probably in old tours since it was soooo krunk.

on sunday, the 7th, the head of the english department at the bigger school scooped me up around noon and took me to her house near Chinon (the land of MANY chateaux) in a small city called Thilouze, and we had a cookout with her son augustine and his friend pascal. heh... fingers crossed, pascal will answer his phone the next time i ring him... hes my new weed man ^_^ its crazy how my teachers have brought me to the goods. but what was also interesting was that augustine and pascal knew more about american hip hop than all the french people ive met here combined!! they werent too keen on atlanta... not that they didnt like it or anything, but they preferred detroit for some reason... i dunno. but one of the first things pascal asked me in english was, "you like bluntz?" my toes were a-twinklin!! he also has a dog called Nawek, who is part german shephard, who is about to be a baby dady... ... ... hells yea im getting a dog in a couple months!!! yea, i know. worst idea ever. but i think thats exactly what i need right now =p after our picnic and about 5 bottles of wine, my teacher and i drove to see a couple chateaux, but they were all closed cause we took too long eating. but im going to go back another weekend. pascal and augustine said they go often to holland, by car, so im going to totally hitch a ride next time. if pascal's girlfriend is cool with that, hah.

on a more sad note, my camera dropped (the first time ever) and the fn display screen doesnt work anymore. so im going to have to ship it back to USA for my dad to take it to be fixed.... ugh!!!! you know how long it could be before i get it back??? it could be MONTHS!!! and i know my mom is going to be mean and just say, "i told you you didnt deserve anything that nice..." she hurts my feelings when shes so pessimistic all the time like that. sigh.

i talked to the kids about the seasons for my first day of teaching. the 2 classes in between asked the most questions. i was there from 8am-noon, then i had some lunch before returning back downtown. and now im chillin. deuce deuce!