Boom was good - MIA and I got in a fun slow dance, which was bits and pieces of the salsa stuff he had been teaching me, and ended with a crazy dip (which hopefully I get him to teach me before I leave).  But I got treated to an eyebrow-waggling "so... you and MIA have been spending a lot of time together, Lindy!" from my creepy-old-man-boss that ( Read more... )

( On how much Lindy dislikes Uncle Sam (rant) )

So family names this week are dr. Suess characters.  We have the Sneetches ("Snitches"), the Sam-I-am family, the Lorax ("orax"), the Whoville ("oooville") and the Onceler ("unsler") families.  We also gave them utterly ridiculous first names - Round-up, Obama, Stinker, and Pinky, Heffalump, Squirrel, Lilo, and Starshine.  First couple of days they ( Read more... )

 Well, first there was the travel difficulties... Left Rome by plane (easyjet is wonderful) and got to Lyon on time, everything was happy.  (Allison 1, travel 0).  And then I went to the Lyon train station lady and she pointed out that my tickets were good for the 29th - of NEXT month.  (Allison 1, Travel 1).  She then figured out a way that I ( Read more... )

 Marseille was beautiful - we had fantastic weather, and it actually got hot.  So we went on a boat ride the first day we were there, and it was yeah, yeah, so exciting, a boat:  but the boat went to the Chateau d'If.  And the Chateau d'If's main claim to fame is rain falling on the plains of Spain the fact that Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo uses ( Read more... )

( Aze rhymes with blase )

 *sigh*

( Kinda tired, not fully into this week. Meh. )

Amusement at the boom:  Otis shaved, and got Hoola to cut his hair (and then when it wasn't short enough for him, grabbed the scissors and ruined the nice hair cut she had given him).  So Leo, introduced as Otis' little brother, came to dinner and the boom.  The kids were hysterical:  was is Otis?  who is Leo?  does Otis have brothers?  (no) Had ( Read more... )

These kids are amazing.  I actually feel remotely like an English language counselor this week - in that the vast majority of the kids do speak English, and given a preference, prefer Eng to French.  And that, I find amazing.  There are a couple with funny accents - a couple of British english girls (one being Vanilla, who is possibly my favorite ( Read more... )

 Hm.  So though I'm not joining the crowd of those who have crazy drunken hijinks, I did manage to join the crowd who was crazy, drunk, and went off to have hijinks.  We had a bunch of people come down this weekend - new people from Com, visitors from Com, visitors from Tour de Bois (including their director)... I think that there were 11 extra ( Read more... )