Soccer, Thanksgiving lessons and the cutest video ever

Not much of note since I didn't actually get out of my PJs or leave the house yesterday--trying to beat whatever cold/flu thing I have before it turns into the killer Grippe A that has taken hold of half my students... But I had a pretty productive lesson planning session with some other assistants chez moi, and we had some good venting about how disorganized things are and how little support we sometimes get. Most of us are teaching Thanksgiving lessons to all of our classes this week, which is good in that it's pretty fun to talk about (thank GOD, I'm mostly done with the intro. stuff--yes, it was easy but sooooooooooooooo boring after a month and a half!), but hard because it's a constant reminder that Thanksgiving means NOTHING here and is just going to be another random day. No turkey. No crazy family time. No eating so much that you literally HAVE to unbutton/unzip your pants. :( A bunch of assistants are getting together for a big potluck celebration, which will be fun, but it won't be the same. And I have to babysit until 8 so I'll be late. Blah.

But enough of that. I did manage to get out of my PJs on Saturday. I had organized a big meet-up in the park to play soccer and frisbee. It was a gorgeous, crisp fall day, and 12 people showed up so we played a little game of soccer to christen my new Olympique Lyonnais ball. 

It was so good to play again! Most people haven't played very much before, but we still had a fun pick-up game and then transitioned to a game of Ultimate. Yay! 

Went to a friend's house party on Saturday night, which is probably another reason I spent all of yesterday chez moi sleeping... I did watch Food, Inc. and proceeded to fall into a deep depression and almost go on a hunger strike since I don't want to eat anything that has anything to do with corn or soy AND EVERYTHING DOES. It was kind of disappointing since the movie was basically the book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, kind of verbatim so it all felt a little repetitive since I just finished that a little while ago. But it was powerful and made me renew my vow to only buy local, organic food whenever possible. Go watch it!

The only other real news is that I threw a kid out of my class for the first time today. This girl always gives me serious attitude and refuses to speak in English even though I know she's better than a lot of the other kids. And today, three minutes into class, she was already not paying attention. I told her to be quiet three times, and then I kicked her out. She thought I was kidding. It was kind of awesome. For the rest of the hour, the other kids were scared of me and actually did what I asked them to. (This is my crappiest class and they really suck at English so they basically never do anything but talk to each other in French.) Emily - 1 point; crappy 2pm Monday class - 0. Ha!

But the real reason I'm posting an update is because I brought my computer to babysit tonight (I had it with me since I showed a clip from a Friends Thanksgiving episode for my class), and Aurore, Phillipe-Emmanuel, and I had a blast playing with Photo Booth. If you've never experienced the wonder of the special effects in Photo Booth, find a Mac ASAP and play around. It's hilarious. And if you can find two adorable French kids to play with it with you, it's even better. :) Even if you don't understand French, you can tell how absolutely adorable PE is.

Basically, PE is just blabbering on in the beginning about how no one can see him (because with the mirror special effect he keeps making himself disappear). Then he declares that he's a Martian since he makes himself have one eye. Then he introduces Aurore, the martian, and me, the new martian. I have now watched this video approximately 10 times, and I pee my pants every time. LOVE them. Enjoy!