The Mistral has been blowing for four days now, and it blew the last of the warm air away about two days ago. Today = a boots and heavy wool sweater day for me (with gloves!) and a full winter coat day for the provençaux. I feel like I'm back in Chicago. Hopefully tomorrow will be the last day of the Mistral, which always blows for an odd number of days.
This is the last week of class before the Toussaint (all saints day) vacation. Which is just under 2 weeks long. About half my classes today had to do with Halloween, my favorite being my littlest ones, where we walked like monsters, crawled like spiders, floated like ghosts, and flew like witches and bats, sound effects and all. While French animals do not make the same sounds as American ones, French monsters, ghosts, and witches do.
My favorite thing that happened today, however, was a teacher telling her kids to listen well to the nasal sound in "afternoon" when I said it. The problem was, as you bright people have already figured out, that there isn't a nasal sound in afternoon, what she picked up on was me recovering from a cold.
Which brings me to my last point of the day. I realized last week that I cannot be a teacher. My immune system is not up for spending everyday with cute little germ magnets.
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Cute little germ magnet? Sounds like a guy a know.
The cute little germ magnets could strengthen your immune system.
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