Encore a Montpellier.

Last weekend was another one spent in Montpellier. I had my orientation on Friday with all of the other assistants in secondary schools. It was potentially the most boring day of my life mainly because we had all been teaching already for a week and did not need to be oriented anymore. But, they paid for lunch and my hotel, so I won't complain anymore! I also was able to meet the two other girl assistants in my region, though we are still at least a 30 minute car ride away; better than a 5 hour train I guess!

After orientation, we had a group dinner and ended up hanging out in a park right near the center of Montpellier where a bunch of Spanish students were playing guitars and drums and dancing. It was an amazing night and we met a lot of very interesting characters The next day we had plans to meet at 9am to go to Nimes, we knew not all of us would make it.

So, we went in three groups to Nimes. One left at 9am sharp, the next around 11am, and my Nimes Dream Team left at 12:43 and literally had to hold the train doors open so we wouldn't lose some stragglers. Nimes was beautiful and filled with ancient Roman ruins, most importantly Les Arenes. We picnicked in a beautiful park and made it back to the train in plenty of time. That night, my friend Margot, from Mexico, had us over for Mexican food, it was delicious and definitely the one thing I miss while I'm abroad! After dinner we ventured out to a club, I guess you could call it. The downstairs was AWFUL European techno music but the upstairs was much more relaxed with jazz, blues and oldies!

Finally, Sunday, we spent the day in a park picnicking and enjoying the sun before fall really comes. I had a train at 6pm that got into Marvejols at 10pm, so it was a long day. Not to mention I was, as always, surrounded by the the worst French teenagers in the world. Screaming "ta guelle" and "putain" the entire time. (I will leave you to translate this text.)

This week has been thus far uneventful, I think I'm buying a car... and I had to explain to a bunch of 14 year olds what a WASP was. I also found out there is another assistant in Marvejols, in the high school down the street for Spanish; I may have found a friend at last!! A la prochaine!