Thursday Afternoon Musings

This week we are finishing up the first several weeks of school. Beginning Monday we will have a 10 day break. Based upon the faces of the students (and teachers) we can all use the break!

Many of the students and their families will be going on mini-vacations. Some people are going to Italy. Others are going to Germany while others are gonna take in a few sites around France itself. Today in my class the teacher was having us practice our French by asking us what we are going to do while on break. Her specific question was "Qu'est-ce que vous pouvez faire en vacances?" (No, I didn't write it down from memory!). Loosely translated it means, "What are you able to do on vacation?" When it was my turn I said, "Nous pouvons faire du camping" which means "We will be camping." Of course we aren't going camping. In fact, we won't be doing much of anything "extra". Instead, we're just sticking around home and hanging out. (After I said we'd be camping she - my teacher - said, "You'll need a really big tent!". Everyone laughed. Little does she know that we do have such a tent. It'll hold 12 people and currently resides deep in the bowels of our storage unit back in Fergus.)

Besides relaxing and resting, one very nice thing about the break will be that some friends are letting us use their car. They will have family in town and need to rent a bigger vehicle. So, they told us we can have their car and this is great because we can use it to go shopping (several times for sure). - You know, lots of folks here ride bicycles... everywhere. But, I have no clue how they can possibly go grocery shopping. The kids and I will go several days in a row, riding the "community" bikes here at school, with our backpacks. The ride is not long (less than 5 minutes) and flat but it does get old especially now that the wheather is getting colder - but not like Fergus Falls! PTL!

Hope you all have a great day. We miss you!

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