Carnivale and Escargot

Holidays kicked off again on friday, and after 5 weeks we felt like we deserved a break! It was a special day at Lycee Armand Peugeot (Mary Elizabeth's school). The students organized a carnivale so many of them came to school in costumes. It was like a make up for halloween, but it turned out to maybe be even better. There were some really good costumes like two boys who did a great job dressing up as Fiona and Shrek. They got a little too into character and even started kissing... The teachers got in on the fun too and one dressed up like a cheetah or something that is from a french cartoon. I didn't really get it but he drove a scooter around all day, like in circles around the teachers room, so it was pretty good. The last 2 periods of the day were cancelled to have bit of a parade for all the costumes. At 5:30 the dance started and Beccy and I went in to 'chaperon'. She dressed up as a vampire and I got the opportunity to reuse my purple afro from Barfly to be a hippy. Anyway it ended up being a pretty hilarious night. We got to do a lot of dancing, however the music was a bit questionable. French techno is THE worst. Whenever I thought I finally recognized a song it would turn out to be like a french lyric remix. Beccy and I even tried to request some Backstreet Boys to get the party going and the "DJ's" didn't even know what we were talking about. I feel they need to go back to DJ school. Things got a little crazy when they put on some tom jones and all of a sudden our students were party boying us! That quickly ended when everyone noticed that Mario and Luigi, who had been dancing up on some chairs, didn't have their overalls on anymore! One of my students even said to me that this was just like an American movie! Other than the nudity it was a pretty wholesome night. Carnivale definitely beat any high school dance that I ever went to because it was fully catered. It was pretty impressive. The sandwich course had all these different kinds of sandwiches that were in loaves of bread that were all sea themed! Like you could lift up the turtles bread shell to get something to eat!



Yesterday Mhairi and I also decided that we have been in France too long without trying any escargot. So we went to the shop to see what we could find. We didn't have too much luck and ended up buying this frozen stuff that is supposed to be cooked in the oven, and well we don't have an oven, so we made due with a frying pan. So it was vegetables and snails in a curry sauce, obviously delicious...perhaps frogs legs will be better?



We have to go and pack because we are off to Morocco tomorrow to get a little African sun. Spring Break 2010 y'all!