Quel est Votre Nom de Super-Héros?

     Hello! Welcome to my weekly blog. This was quite a slow week, so hopefully I will still have enough fun stuff to talk about for the blog. I have been having a grand old time here in the City of Lights (not sure why it is called that...). I worked a lot this week, and it was sort of an ugly weather week. I guess all over the world it’s been yucky weather, and cold. Good thing the dreaded January is done, and we can get on to the love of February.

     Time is moving very quickly. The weeks are long, but the months are short. I am coming up on my 5 month mark, and before I know it I would have spent half a year living in Paris, France (which is something I can check off my bucket list!). All this got me thinking, I want to know what kinds of things you all have on your bucket lists! Send me something!

     Aimée was sick with all week; home from school, lying in the bed all day kind of sick. Of course Cecile was worried, but it wasn’t until Wednesday afternoon came around and there was still no improvement in her condition that she decided it was time to call the Doctor. Did you know that you can have a Doctor come to your house and give you a checkup 45 euros? Well that was an experience. Aimée didn’t go to school for the rest of the week, and by Friday night she was feeling much better. The down side was that the family was planning on going to Milan for the weekend to see family and couldn’t go since Aimée was sick.

My favorite place in Paris. 

     I was worried about Aimée, because the Doctor put her on antibiotics, and for anyone who know me, or my family, knows that we aren’t a big fan of pumping something that is designed to break down illnesses into your body. The good thing is that Cecile has also been giving Aimée probiotics to balance out her system. She is doing much better now and will be returning to school tomorrow (something, she is not too excited for).

     I have been taking private French lessons with a wonderful lady who Cecile found for me as a Christmas present. It is so nice to have someone to sit down and explain all my little questions about the French language. I hope that I will be able to pick it up much quicker, but it’s still very hard to do.

     The exciting new news?! Well Cecile asked if I had any plans for May. Since I work my schedule around the family, I said no and she asked I would be willing to come to Milan with them to help out with the kids! Yay! So I’m going to Italy in May!

     I have been with Daniel all week! Since Aimée has been sick I have been picking Daniel up from school. This week was super hero week. We were trying to think of a good super hero name for Daniel. He likes Spiderman and Medusa, and Spiderman and Cyclops. For some reason he didn’t like the names Spidusa or Spiclops! Kid doesn’t know a good super hero name when he hears it.

Here is an appetizer I had this week.
It's ham, pickle, and butter. It was
surprisingly good.  

     The other really fun game we have been playing is 20 questions at the dinner table with the kids. Someone has an object/ animal/ vegetable... so on so on and everyone else needs to ask yes or no questions to get to the answer. OK, so most of the time it’s really only Alain, Cecile, and me playing since the kids can’t really keep up yet, but occasionally one of them will ask a really good question.

     This week while picking up Daniel one day, the BIGGEST rain storm that I have ever been in came pouring down on me. Since I was a few blocks away, I walked in the pouring rain for a good 10 minutes. By the time I got Daniel home, I was soaked to the bone. My hair was so wet that it looked like I just got out of the shower. Daniel thought this was really funny for some reason. Let’s just say, I plan on finding a really good umbrella to carry around with me.

     I got a wonderful Valentines package in the mail from my Grandma, and the family loved everything in it! Aimée perked up when I pulled out all the stickers and treats. Since she has been really sick all week, it was nice to see that she was happy.

     I have been reading the Percy Jackson series to the kids, and we just finished book two, well at the end of the book there is a really big cliff hanger, and both kids where jumping around like crazy when we finished! They were running around asking me to start the next book so they would know what happens. That was so wonderful!

The Restaurant I ate at with Gina before
she went back home. I think this might be my new favorite place. 

     This weekend I said goodbye to a friend who was going back home after a month in Paris. I met her at Church and she is from Utah. It amazes me how lucky I have been with my friends. Some of these people I would have never met if I wouldn’t have moved here. Sara lived 5 minutes away from me, but since we went to different high schools and different churches we would have never met. I think about that a lot. The people I would have missed if I hadn’t taken wonderful this opportunity.

     I have a new project that I am going to start working on. As part of my school work I needed to come up with three things that I would accomplish by the end of the semester. One of those is keeping up with my blog, but then I started thinking that I could take it a step further. I am going to start a website about travel. It will be very similar to a blog, but I want to get more people involved. Think “Chicken Soup for the Soul” but for travel. An uplifting website filled with stories from people and their experiences working or studying abroad. I will have my own story, and I have many students/friends here who have offered to put in their two cents, so I’m going to start working on that. If you have a story, or know someone who does, I would love to get a message from you!

     This weeks title Quel est Votre Nom de Super-Héros? Means what is your superhero name? It's something I think everyone should know, especially children. Well this week has adventure written all over it, so hopefully I will have better stories in the next blog!