So East it's Ouest

...Italy. So I took up Anna-Maria's offer to visit down near Pisa in Tuscany.  Using the super cheap and super simple (a bus goes straight from Lille to the front door of the airport) Charleroi airport in Belgium I headed on down bearing gifts from Lucia from the north of France.  Anna and her husband Nick live in a small town nearby called Vicopisano nearby Pisa.  He is Dutch/Italian she is French/Italian and they speak english, italian, dutch and french fluently.  Ridiculous.  They both work as language teachers and Nick also heads up a bagpipe troup and is a Scottish aficionado (kilts kilts kilts), he wears a bowler hat.  They are part of the english group in Pisa and they study with many nigerians so they are now learning nigerian pidgeon,  things like 'You face be fine'=you're looking good. Tuscany  vs the south of France:         Basically Tuscany is really similar to the south of France.  Differ...

My weeks of paid vacation are at an end; duh duh dahhhhhh; and only one more week of work.  Soon my parents will be coming in order to help me pack up my belongings and slowly head back home, traveling...     But you might ask what did Emily do over her last vacation?  Funny you should ask. So as customary every 6 weeks in France at school they have 2 weeks off.  I will just briefly mention that because of terrorism and other unforseen circumstances this year several friends and family were unable to come visit.  This was the case for the 1st week of my spring break, so for several days I honestly did absolutely NOTHING.  Which in a way is very nice.  However the days that followed were jammed pack with action, basically I should have made a video it was that good. Thursday:  Guests for breakfast and lunch, left for afternoon field service, cycling class until 9pm, dinner, decide to go to Brugge tommorrow, pack lunch, buy  tr...