Just a teaser...

Still sadly far behind on the good, old blog and I have to disappoint yet again. No time for the fun adventure catch-up, but I did want to share the exciting news that I finally found (after 5 months) a team to play soccer with! Well, not a real team exactly. But my friend Jasmine, who did the assistant program last year, is getting a Master's here now and has an indoor soccer "class" on Tuesday evenings. She invited me to play with her a long time ago, but I always had to babysit. Now that I only have a couple months left and am clearly not going to become best friends with Aurore and PE's scary mom, I told a little white lie that my schedule changed so I can't babysit on Tuesdays anymore. Woo-hoo!!! I mean, I do feel badly for the kids. When they found out I would be done at the end of May, they were really cute and asked if I meant in 2011... When I said no, they got all sad and asked if I would be coming back soon. I told them it was complicated and that I would need to find a job to which they proclaimed that they WERE a job. Then Aurore told me I just needed to cohabitate with someone, i.e. find a French husband. Ah, if it were only that easy!

Anyway, so down to three days with the cuties and up to two soccer-playing days! Went to soccer for the second time today, and it really is awesome. There's an actual coach (to whom I conveniently didn't mention that I'm not actually a student and he doesn't seem to care since I'm basically at the same level as the other girls), which is the first time since college that I've had a coach, and this one is actually better than 90% of the soccer coaches I've ever had. Even though he's speaking in French! To make comprehension even more difficult, we play in this huge, acoustically horrific gym so even if he were speaking English I would have a hard time understanding him. But that means no one can understand him so we all just pretend we know what's going on for the drills (drills for the first time in 6 years!) and the scrimmages. There's a women's tournament this weekend, which is actually stressing me out since I REALLY want to play in it, but a group of us are supposed to go to Courchevel, one of the best and most chic ski areas in France so I'm torn. I know, life is rough.

Anyway, this little post is just to remind you I haven't dropped off the face of the earth. I know I have some serious journeys to recount still. But you can't blame me for being behind. In the past month, I have traveled to Corsica, Annecy, Barcelona, Grenoble, Geneva, Dijon, and London with some amazing VIPs who made the trek to visit me. :) Get excited!