Wait for it...

Ok everybody here it comes....wait for it....I HAVE A JOB FOR NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!! I will be moving down south to the little town of Grenoble, France (right in the swiss alps) a pretty famous little ski town I think and I will be teaching english classes again as a Lectrice (lecturer) d'anglais. Life is good, I am so happy that I am leaving for the US in less than 1 hour and I will do it with the knowing satisfaction that I will be returning to the land I have come to love for over another year!! Life is grand if I do say so myself.

So I went down to my interview last week, 9 hours on a train later (my train was late by two hours that day because it was the day after the train strikes...but I least I knew it would be running, we're organized in this country, we know what days and times we're striking on...) I had 1.5 minutes to make my corresponding train exchange with the world's largest suitcase, I am not sure how I did it, but I managed! I still for the life of my can't understand how I managed with the worlds two largest suitcases ever when I first arrived.

My interview went swimmingly well, I was very pleased, I seemed to make a very good impression. Funny moment of the day however, was when I tried to put on my suit that I haven't worn in over a year (those of you who have been following me knkow I've turn into something of a runner) and I put on my pants without a belt, then they fell directly to the floor....a very good feeling, but very aggravating, I've spent money buying stock in belts this week, as that is the case with all of my clothing at the current state. I have my suitcase packed for home (I'm leaving TODAY TODAY) and more than half of it is the clothes I am taking home to be resized...I guess paying for resizing is better than buying a whole new wardrobe...maybe:)

I made a trip up to Paris lately to bump into one of my american buddies, Susan:) We had a lovely time doing all manner of touristic things and eating way to much food! Also on the strange happenstance, Susan arrived with two of her friends from texas, one of which happened to be one of my former students from Texas...and as if that wasn't weird enough, we took a "free tour" of Paris and ran into ANOTHER one of my students from texas...very very odd and surreal moment for me, ladies and gentlemen, the world, is not as big as you think...or maybe I just have too many friends on facebook....

After i finished in Grenoble last week I spent the weekend in Nice! Well I spent the first two days in Menton, about 30 minutes outside of Nice and then the next day and a half in Nice. It was STUNNING, see photos below, I'd forgotten how beautiful it was down south. Hopefully I will be relocating there for he summer and finding a job a some sort of server/bartender down there. We'll see how it all pans out. However, let me give a lesson to you, just because you're going to the south of France, does not mean it will be summery weather...March, is still March. Therefore, if you are dumb and think, oh Côte d'Azur I'm going to go swimming on the beach, and you take a swimsuit, t-shirts, and not a jacket, you will freeze your ass off all weekend; especially when riding on the back of a motorcycle on the interstate in capri pants...ok, that is all:)

alright, well I am OFF TO THE STATES today in a matter of minutes actually:) I will be running my first 10k race with Shani in NYC saturday morning, so think good thoughts for me as I know I will be jet lagged out of my mind...I hope I don't want to die halfway through. After NYC I'm heading down to ole TN for a mommy/daddy week! Please if you're in the area I'd love to see you slash have a beer slash catch up slash talk shit about France if you're in the mood;) The old 865.310.7272 number will be functional as of 9pm this evening so please, give me a call!!!

I love you, I miss you, I'll see you soon?:)

Sarah

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