La Vie en France

We are pretty settled in now and we are living with three other language assistants: Becky from germany, Mhairi (Mary) from Scotland and Anent from India. We all get a long pretty well and we've been getting everything ready for the schools and exploring the city. Some of the highlights in Montbeliard include:

• the Cinemas that shows foreign movies from the 60's. It's really different from the theatre at home. There is no concession stand BUT luckily there is a popcorn machine and a vending machine. We watched an Iranian movie with French subtitles...jealous?
• We've been to a few cafes and sandwicheries. The prices are a bit higher than they are at home, a bottle of coke costs about 5 dollars. The other night we went to Buffolo Grill for supper and before the waitor brought us our meal he brought out a delicious urn of popcorn... it was quite nice.
  
• A short walk a way from our residence there is an equivalent of a superstore. We bought cheap wine for 2.50 euros and made a night of it. Half the store is actually baguettes and cheese... but they don't seem to have ANY peanut butter! And they have an insane amount of sweets.
  
• Mary Elizabeth and Mhairi were feeling quite adventurous yesterday and went and got some piercings. Bad ass.

We are living on a campus of a technical school so the students are between 16 and 21. Eighty percent of the student body are boys. We feel really foreign because the stares are unbelievable. Yesterday the five of us were walkng and we actually got hissed at.


As for the actual reason we are here, Mary Elizabeth had her first day yesterday. She got to observe a few english classes she might be working with. The students asked her a few questions and when she answered them they literally gasped at her accent. Katie finally got a hold of her contact yesterday and will be starting on Tuesday. Side note: He didn't pick Katie up from the train station and failed to contact her or reply to the numerous e-mails she sent him.

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