Nantes

Last weekend: Nantes!  Beautiful city, great friends, amazing time!  And of course, the photos...

The Cathedral

passage pommeraye

chateau

l'église

giant elephant

my lunch

macaroons

Luna and Morgaine's lunch

Lu tower: where the make the breton cookies!

Notre Dame de Bon Port

New Blog

For those of you wondering "what happened to her other blog?"  I can tell you... It still exists!  I just changed the domain name.  You can visit it at www.theyellow10.blogspot.com  you can also get to this page by clicking on the link on the side, somewhere under my photo and info it says "view my complete profile" and that will take you to a page that will then lead you to my other blog.  If you haven't been keeping current with it... now is the time to change that!

Decapitation

I tried to take a photo of my new super french haircut.  But I missed.  Maybe a real photo of my haircut will be taken soon.  Maybe.

Kids say the darndest things (2)

Brooke (Madame le Prof): What did you do for vacation?
French boy in class whom we will call Pierre:  I go to ze hood.
Brooke (in my "I correct this all day long" voice): I WENT to THE hood.

Brooke: Wait, you did WHAT?
Pierre:  ugh... ughh... ze hood?  Robin des bois?

Brooke: AHH des bois.  Woods or Forest. You went hiking?
Pierre: Oui, yes.

Side note:  Robin des bois literally translates as Robin of the Woods(or Forest).  So since he new the title in english as Robin Hood he figured "bois" was the same as "hood".  It was a nice try though.

Boots with the... Plastique!

I'm not sure if I've mentioned that it rains everyday, but it rains every day in Brest. After 2 pairs of crappy boots that didn't survive my rough lifestyle, I bought some rainboots. FINALLY. I had intended on purchAsing them earlier in my move to Brest but shopping results yeilded a price too expensive. Luckily there is this amazing month in france where everything is on sale and so I was finally able to purchase my rainbboots.  And since, as I've mentioned, it rains everyday in Brest, I wear my rainboots everyday.

This is where my store begins.  One day in class with the 3D*, i believe, one of my students, Baptiste: the class clown, starts laughing hysterically.  I'm naturally dumbfounded as to what could possibly be so funny at the beginning of class and no one else seems to know why he is laughing either.  So, I of course, ask him... "What's so funny?" And somewhere among fits of giggles he manages to say "tes bottes" which means "your boots". So I ask him, "why are my boots funny?" and he responds "parce qu'ils sont en plastique!" (they are plastic).  Um... true.  They are rainboots.  Baptiste: "Mais, il pluet pas" (it's not raining).  Me, le prof: Yes, but it will be in 5 minutes time.  Just wait.  Baptiste: ahh... je pense que c'etait à la mode (you understand la mode, right?)  Nope... that's the "Boots with the furrr"  but good try Baptiste.

There was a girl in the class that said "I like your boots".  Thank you sweet girl who likes to complement me.  If I could give you a grade... it would be an "A". Baptiste = Fail.

*3D denotes the class and group.  3 or troisieme is equivalent to 8th graders.  I could be wrong about the being 3 though.  In any case they are either 3 or 4 and 4 is close to 7th graders.

Vacation #3: The Photos

Château Chenonceau

I don't know what this big ugly construction tarp is all about but it was ruining my photos.

Château Amboise.  I didn't actually get to visit this one. :(

Spring is on the way!

Château Chambord

The De Vinci inspired/designed staircase.  There are 2 intertwining staircases that never meet on the same floor.  The floors that they stop on are supposed to be identical though.

An interior view of the staircase.

My look-a-like.  AKA, not me.

Château Cheverny

Petite Palais in Paris.  This is where we saw the Italian photo exhibition.