Stealing French children...

So, as many of you know, I have kind of a problem with wanting to steal small children. I mean, I don't REALLY want to steal them, but I tend to stare and be a little creepy when I come across an especially adorable small child. This affliction has followed me to France and is threatening to become a serious issue... The children here are just soooooooooo incredibly cute! First of all, they're dressed to the nines usually with little European shoes and the cutest little hairstyles. And second, when they open their mouths out comes FRENCH! Not sure that will ever cease to charm and amaze me! Although maybe part of the charm is that I don't understand everything they say... Anyway, just wanted to make sure you all know that I've been restraining myself from becoming an international criminal wanted for stealing the cutest children ever. It was especially hard walking to the park this morning to go running because I was behind a gym teacher taking a class of 6 and 7-year-olds to the park to hula hoop, and they were just being ridiculously adorable.

All right, enough of that nonsense. Not much to add today. My first night of babysitting/tutoring went well. The kids are so well-behaved and cute. I'm really not sure how much help I'll be as a tutor though... The 10-year-old boy wanted me to quiz him on the properties of volcanoes, but I couldn't read his handwriting to check it against what he was saying back to me and I'm not sure if it would have helped any if I could have... Ah, well, he's a smart kid. I'm sure he knows it. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. I was even more useless with Aurore, the 13-year-old. She needed help with physics (properties of open and closed electrical circuits) and geometry (if-then statements about shapes and angles and lines). Even in English, those are things I haven't studied or thought about in a MILLION years. In French, it was impossible. But she ended up putting something down for her homework so maybe she figured it out in the end... Ack! We did have a hilarious time when they tried to explain the plot of Ice Age 1 and 2 to me. There was a lot of Franglais (French and English together) and gesturing and laughing. They definitely convinced me that I have to see the movies so I call that a success!

Other than that I just completed my bank account stuff (should get my cards and checkbook hopefully next week) so now I can get paid. Very exciting! And now I'm off to be a useless tutor again before meeting up with a bunch of other assistants tonight to celebrate some birthdays--apparently like half the group has a birthday at the end of September or the beginning of October. Crazy!