Christmas Countdown!

Hello everyone! Less than ONE MONTH until I will be home sweet home for Christmas.

Not much has happened in the past week. I spent the weekend home alone, which put me into a bit of a funk. I then proceeded to catch something, perhaps the flu, and combined with a severe lack of sleep was rather not well all week. I am feeling slightly better now but my stomach still cannot appropriately handle any food I put into it. Therefore, I have been drinking many a hot beverage. Mostly tea.

My school class schedule has changed because a teacher was offered another position and they had to replace her. Today I got up early to get ready and everything and went to class only to get there early and wait until 20 minutes after class was supposed to start before I left. The door to the room was locked and I saw nobody from my class there. I can't attend class on Wednesdays so I wonder if perhaps they gave an announcement that I missed...?
In other school news, my Methodology class is a complete joke. I basically detest it but go anyway, because it is one of the few classes I can make it to, and because I want to be able to see the other students. The other day the professor was teaching us how to take notes. HOW TO TAKE NOTES. She came over and literally told me to FOLD my paper into two and then in three smaller folds to correspond to the sections of the material we were reading. What is this, middle school?? I have no problem with anyone who folds there paper while taking notes - go for it! But I think by now, after having graduated college summa cum laude with 2 degrees you would think I have been fairly successful in taking notes. Its hard because just because I don't speak the language well does not mean I am stupid. If anything people in these classes are bright and brave! And the note taking thing wasn't even the half of it.

Not this weekend, but the next, Mia is coming to Rouen and we are going to celebrate her birthday (there really is not THAT much to do here but she didn't want to stay in Paris which is totally cool). Then the weekend after that we are going to visit the Vaux le Vicomte (a chateau that inspired Versailles). It gets all decked out for Christmas and it looks just lovely!

It will be another quiet weekend, with the girls staying with the grandparents the the parents moving Mr. S out of his office (he is stopping his dental practice in Rouen). This means I get a new desk/dresser thing tomorrow. But first I have to clean out the one I have. I'll go get on that right now!
Adios, amigos.
Natalie