So East it's Ouest

  Ahh so it's only been 4 days but 4 days of a massive amount of change.  So let's see...  First off may I say again Lucia {loo chee ah} (the Italian sister I'm staying with) is amazing, if this system continues I hope I'm as hard working, selfless, positive, classy (cough and as good of a cook cough) as her, she really is a gem.  She could say 'tonight we are going to eat boiled shoes' and I would say 'yum sounds delicious, I wonder how she is going make that', it's like she walks into any kitchen (other people's houses included) and walks out with a 5 course meal and a patisserie style apple tarte.   She is actually in the process of working out how to rent this house to 'curistes', people coming here for the spa, the thermal springs, and she is going to move in with her sister in Sicily.  This is the family's longtime home and the home she shared with her husband who died a few years back, you can tell it's super hard on her to...

Hello everyone, The news is true, I accepted (and was accepted for) an English teaching assistant position in France.  Here is a link for more info about what I'll be doing.  I decided that since I like vineyards and lavender fields so much I would once again go to... the very northernmost corner of France!  You'll get the joke later on.  I was offered the position in the Nord-pas-de-Calais region right along the border with Belgium.  I've only just recieved the news so ALL the paperwork will follow this summer (visa, work contract, contacting the congregation, apartment, new credit card, health care...etc da di da di da.).  I will begin teaching the 1st of October and finish April 30, so I'll probably leave sometime mid-September.  I'm hoping to land in Lille the capital of the region, some reasons I think Lille would be awesome: 1)  They have the reputation of being friendly  2)  Flemish-language/architecture  3)  ...