Samedi

Saturday: shopping et walking.  Ruth and I took the train to Saint-Quentin yesterday afternoon to escape Chauny for awhile (I had been to St-Q once before).  We visited a gorgeous cathedral which seemed even more magical the second time (vraiment magical, filled with ghosts I assume).  It smelled good, too, but not like flowers this time.  More like old wood and dusty air.

Cadorama! <3 I liked this GB or 96 or decorative loop.

Cadorama display.   I am going to assume that Cadorama means 
"Gift-a-rama!!!" (Cadeau = gift), or maybe a bunch of junk for sale.  
Either way!

The toy store was super expensive but I took this free photo

Ruth & coffee

Café crème, €1,40

I liked the olive green gate (probably my favorite color 
plus I don'tmind rust) and yellow leaves together.  
Fall here is comparable to fall in MN, minus the apple 
orchards, apple pie, apple cider, candy consumption, 
Halloween, and bonfires.  The trees look the same, anyway

P'tit coeur and a nude

No pastries bein' sold here.  I love old crappy paint!

A bit clowny, but I liked the bobblies.  French toes!

Today, Sunday: prepare some activities/lessons for my students (I have studentsss!), play homemade Scrabble (Norman is busy creating Scrabble from cardboard and tape: my genius idea), stay up late because I don't have class until 11 tomorrow!  I was thinking- maybe I should do some private English lessons? teaching 12 hours per week is great and all but I'm just a little bit bored. I don't want to be an all-day netsurfer like I was at home, so it's time to find some other outlets... creative ones. And moneymaking ones.

Norman just finished the board and showed it to me- it's framed with tons of little plastic jewels.  He said, "it's for divas! Like us." I said it was perfect.  My roommates are truly cool.