Getting aquainted with my new home.

France is awesome. I am working hard to improve my pronunciation. I have made several French professor friends that are my age and I am starting to hang out with them outside of class. Today was my first day of teaching. I was in charge of the whole class for a whole hour. I showed them pictures of my hometown (GO PORTLAND!) and then we played hangman using the words they were using to describe the pictures. I divided people up into teams and the first team that got 5 right answers won. It was a lot of fun! I am hoping that for the rest of the classes I can make the students more comfortable so that they can have some fun. I was using so much body language to describe what I was saying it was hilarious but it helped them a lot. A bientot :)

Only in France would a product advertisement feature a completely nude woman on the cover :)

Not a close up.

Me on my balcony :) why yes I could just daydream all day looking out...

So it is so funny because here in this tiny little town where no one speaks English they have signs that say STOP... I mean seriously it is pretty zickedly awesome. Apparently English came up with the best way for STOP. Apparently ARRETER just doesn't cut it...

I'm in Chateau Thierry trick!

Me in Chateau Thierry!

Cute street with a bunch of shops not accessable by car.

Another city view!

My lucky number.

Beautiful house covered in Ivy on Rue des Chesneaux. I walk past this cozy cottage everyday on my way to the city center.

City view of Chateau Thierry

Rue des Chesneaux, the street I work on.

My school.

Where I work and live. There are a total of 700 students and ninety nine percent are male.

A place I would like to visit someday!

It was too classic to not take this picture.

The castle has been turned into a park is completely avalable to the public.

The old castle!

City view.

Jean de la Fontaine

Jean de la Fontaine! This guy has been dead for a really long time. The funny thing is, the French class that I flunked a really long time ago and later aced was composed of a bunch of this guy's work. And it turns out that this guy lived in Chateau Thierry. He wrote children's stories with talking animals and moral lessons.

La Marne.

I think this is the church?

Rue de Soissons.

Like I have said before, it is impossible to get lost in this sleepy little town. Rue de Soissons. Uphill is home and downhill is the Marne. To be truthful, the only walking I really do is generqlly North and South. Poor Meaghan goes East and West all the time which makes it so much easier to get lost... But getting lost is and adventure and just means that you get to ask some nice French person for direcions meaning another opportuinity to practice French. Really, lost or not, it is just a win win situation.

Skatepark in Chateau Thierry! This one is for you Dylan! xoxoxoxoxo :) I hope you get a chance to see this, I think about you all the time and I will be sending you lots of pictures buddy :)